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Harvard Business Review

HBS Case Studies: 1) Diamonds in the Data Mine and 2) Gary Loveman and Harrah’s

These two “Best Practice” Case Studies are good examples of “Evidence-Based Management”, as opposed to intuition-based management. Harrah’s was a company that seemed to be focused on the right things and some of the lessons that can be gleaned from these case studies are in the paragraphs that follow. Gary Loveman was a Harvard professor […]

Harvard Business School

HBS: Compensation and Performance Evaluation at Arrow Electronics

This post is a commentary on a Harvard Business School Case Study about performance evaluations at Arrow Electronics. On a quick, personal, third-degree-of-separation type of note: while I have no inside knowledge of Arrow Electronics, I have had the pleasure of designing their facility here in Reno, Nevada. The Case study indicates that, at the […]