Filter Results
:
(513)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (513)
- Faculty Publications (277)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (513)
- Faculty Publications (277)
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
judgment or tactical execution. Having a metric in place that rates your priorities and weighs tradeoffs will enable you to make good decisions on the fly. Axiom #3: Learn And Adapt Bolstering your capacity to sense and respond is key to...
View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
sustainability leadership”? Moreover, how could developing metrics and improved performance on material sustainability issues be used as an instrument for change management? JetBlue wanted to achieve...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
enabled by creativity and the right organizational flexibility and mindset. The case highlights the key role of performance metrics in building a flexible system that could be refined through experimentation...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
leadership behaviors. She sought to instill a performance ethic and a customer service orientation, not just by the new metrics and systems, but by drawing out the best in people and tapping their own higher...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Venture capital firms based in locales that are venture capital centers outperform, regardless of the stage of the investment. Ironically, this outperformance arises from outsized performance outside of the venture capital firms' office...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
have declined. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52494 Harvard Business School Case 118-010 The Oakland Athletics: Strategy & Metrics for a Budget No abstract available. Purchase this...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and...
View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
their supply chains and their performance of supply chains. And they’re evaluating managers up and down the line, operating managers, on those bases. But they don’t have a metric for which managers are...
View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of, teams. We find that the level of team familiarity (i.e., the average number of times that each member has worked with every other...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO...
View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
River in identifying investments, performing due diligence, and working with portfolio companies and asks how Blue River should build itself into a top-tier private equity fund, particularly as more and more foreign firms target the...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
measurement and disclosure of important metrics and information. In this chapter, we examine the effect of sustainability disclosure regulations on firms’ disclosure practices and valuations. Specifically, we explore the implications of...
View Details
Keywords:
Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
professional and customer reviews, and ratings systems” Understanding how online retailers can cause these same-store sales and gross margin declines by affecting the operating metrics of a retail store is fundamental to understanding the...
View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
the performance of mechanisms intended for human use. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-064.pdf PublicationsBusiness Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements. 4th ed. Authors:Paul M. Healy and Krishna G....
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
attempting the transformation required to embrace a new, dominant technology—the choice to maintain focus on the old technology. In considering this choice we distinguish between "racing" strategies, which attempt to fight off the rise of the new technology...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to introduce a new pilot project designed to enhance the motivation and performance of a group of 200 employees. A rare female manager at Frito-Lay, Johnson finds that her youth, inexperience, and...
View Details
Keywords:
Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
quality metrics are unreliable and thus, recent legislation may result in unintended consequences. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54443 in press Business History Internment as a Business Challenge:...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
contributed to the financial turmoil that followed. This performance has come under tremendous scrutiny by lawmakers and regulators, who are debating ways to reform the ratings industry. One prominent suggestion: increased competition....
View Details