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- June 2007
- Case
AARP Foundation (A)
By: Srikant M. Datar, Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Thomas Goodwin
AARP Foundation--a leading non-profit corporation--must create a new "Dashboard" performance measurement tool to track the effectiveness of its new strategic plan.
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Keywords:
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Evaluation;
Strategic Planning;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Welfare;
Business Strategy
Datar, Srikant M., Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein, and Thomas Goodwin. "AARP Foundation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 107-051, June 2007.
- February 1995
- Case
James Cranfield
By: John J. Gabarro and Andrew P. Burtis
Describes the attitudes, feelings, and perceptions of the manager who will conduct the performance appraisal interview. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Gabarro, John J., and Andrew P. Burtis. "James Cranfield." Harvard Business School Case 495-035, February 1995.
- 24 Sep 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
CEO and CFO Career Penalties to Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts
- 2020
- Working Paper
Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes
By: Jeremy Yang, Dean Eckles, Paramveer Dhillon and Sinan Aral
Decision makers often want to target interventions so as to maximize an outcome that is observed only in the long term. This typically requires delaying decisions until the outcome is observed or relying on simple short-term proxies for the long-term outcome. Here we...
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Keywords:
Targeted Marketing;
Optimization;
Churn Management;
Marketing;
Customer Relationship Management;
Policy;
Learning;
Outcome or Result
Yang, Jeremy, Dean Eckles, Paramveer Dhillon, and Sinan Aral. "Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes." Working Paper, October 2020.
- Article
A Blueprint for Pharmacy Benefits Managers to Increase Value
By: William Shrank, Michael E. Porter, Sachin H. Jain and Niteesh K. Choudhary
Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) have a unique opportunity to promote public health and generate value in the healthcare system. However, PBMs are largely evaluated on their ability to control costs rather than improve health. PBMs should be evaluated along three...
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Keywords:
Opportunities;
Health;
System;
Cost Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Motivation and Incentives;
Value;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Effectiveness;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Shrank, William, Michael E. Porter, Sachin H. Jain, and Niteesh K. Choudhary. "A Blueprint for Pharmacy Benefits Managers to Increase Value." American Journal of Managed Care 15, no. 2 (February 2009).
- Research Summary
Executive Compensation
Professor Meulbroek is investigating the gap between what equity-linked compensation costs the firm and what it is worth to managers. This gap arises because such compensation prevents managers from fully diversifying their holdings, so managers must bear firm-specific...
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- June 2015 (Revised September 2017)
- Supplement
Generating Higher Value at IBM
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
This case analyzes IBM's financial performance and its capital allocation decisions over a 10-year period from 2004-2013, during which IBM returned more than $140B to shareholders through a combination of dividends and share repurchases. During this time, CEO Sam...
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- 2022
- Article
Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Ruomeng Cui, Hao Ding and Feng Zhu
We study the disproportionate impact of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak on female and male academics' research productivity in social science. The lockdown has caused substantial disruptions to academic activities, requiring people to work from home....
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Keywords:
Gender Inequality;
Research Productivity;
Telecommuting;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Research;
Performance Productivity;
Gender;
Equality and Inequality;
Health Pandemics
Cui, Ruomeng, Hao Ding, and Feng Zhu. "Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 707–726.
- July 2019
- Case
Christmas Inc. (A)
By: Susanna Gallani, Gregory Sabin, Lexor Adams and Nicholas Haberling
Santa Claus is facing increasing pressures to contain costs. The economic model that has worked for centuries is starting to show some cracks, to the point that he is considering outsourcing part of its toy production. Evaluating the bids his team collected from...
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Gallani, Susanna, Gregory Sabin, Lexor Adams, and Nicholas Haberling. "Christmas Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-009, July 2019.
- September 1977 (Revised April 1983)
- Case
Eugene Kirby (A)
By: Michael Beer and James G. Clawson
Describes the events leading up to an actual performance appraisal interview--the views, opinions, and attitudes of the subordinates who are to be interviewed.
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Beer, Michael, and James G. Clawson. "Eugene Kirby (A)." Harvard Business School Case 478-007, September 1977. (Revised April 1983.)
- March 2014
- Module Note
Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations
Keywords:
Sustainability;
Sustainability Management;
Sustainability Reporting;
Sustainable Supply Chains;
Sustainable Operations;
Environment;
Environmental And Social Sustainability;
Environmental Management;
Environmental Operations;
Environmental Performance;
Environmental Policy;
Environmental Protection;
Environmental Strategy;
Environmental Regulation;
Operations Management;
Operations Strategy;
Supply Chain Management;
Operations;
Supply Chain;
Business Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Safety;
Social Enterprise;
Quality;
Production;
Working Conditions;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Buildings and Facilities;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Construction Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Toffel, Michael W. "Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations." Harvard Business School Module Note 613-090, March 2014.
- 2011
- Article
Scalable Detection of Anomalous Patterns With Connectivity Constraints
By: Skyler Speakman, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
We present GraphScan, a novel method for detecting arbitrarily shaped connected clusters in graph or network data. Given a graph structure, data observed at each node, and a score function defining the anomalousness of a set of nodes, GraphScan can efficiently and...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing
By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
Recent work argues that experimentation is the appropriate framework for entrepreneurial strategy. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of experimentally testing...
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Keywords:
Experimentation;
A/B Testing;
Data-driven Decision-making;
Entrepreneurship;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Information Technology;
Performance
Koning, Rembrand, Sharique Hasan, and Aaron Chatterji. "Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-018, August 2019. (Revised September 2020. SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3440291, August 2019)
- April 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Andina Bottling Co.
By: V.G. Narayanan and Alberto Ballve
Andina Bottling develops an information system for monitoring the performance and operations of its various foreign and domestic subsidiaries.
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Keywords:
Operations;
Information Technology;
Performance Evaluation;
Decision Making;
Business Subsidiaries;
Measurement and Metrics;
Business or Company Management;
Distribution
Narayanan, V.G., and Alberto Ballve. "Andina Bottling Co." Harvard Business School Case 102-040, April 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
Affects Our Behavior. It turns out that working on a relatively large machine (like a desktop computer) causes users to act more assertively than working on a small one (like an iPad). “We wanted to study how interacting with a device...
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- 06 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability
- 2015
- Article
Scalable Detection of Anomalous Patterns With Connectivity Constraints
By: Skyler Speakman, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
We present GraphScan, a novel method for detecting arbitrarily shaped connected clusters in graph or network data. Given a graph structure, data observed at each node, and a score function defining the anomalousness of a set of nodes, GraphScan can efficiently and...
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Speakman, Skyler, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill. "Scalable Detection of Anomalous Patterns With Connectivity Constraints." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 24, no. 4 (2015): 1014–1033.
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
1960, electronic data processing as well as information storage and retrieval had made a lasting impression in both the private and the public sectors, and discoveries and improvements in areas such as circuit design and solid-state electronics promised better View Details
- February 1995
- Case
Old Colony Associates, The
By: John J. Gabarro and Andrew P. Burtis
The first case in a four-part case series that outlines the events leading up to a performance appraisal interview. Describes the background of the company. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Gabarro, John J., and Andrew P. Burtis. "Old Colony Associates, The." Harvard Business School Case 495-034, February 1995.
- September–October 2017
- Article
The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests
By: Ron Kohavi and Stefan Thomke
In the fast-moving digital world, even experts have a hard time assessing new ideas. Case in point: At Bing, a small headline change an employee proposed was deemed a low priority and shelved for months until one engineer decided to do a quick online controlled...
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Kohavi, Ron, and Stefan Thomke. "The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 5 (September–October 2017): 74–82.