management practices

Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared ...

Category : Entrepreneurship
Project Portfolio Management Practices for Innovation – A Case Study at ABN AMRO

Project Portfolio Management is a tool for effective resource allocation, for the selection of those projects with the highest potential to become tomorrow’s new product and service winners. The accurate implementation of project portfolio methodology is ultimately linked to sound innovation management practices. This paper aims to research a financial ...

Category : Finance Projects
Manager Tasks

Challenging people to achieve more than they thought was possible starts with management. Managers must possess clear self-awareness and self-management before they can influence others effectively. This presentation is a discussion of the nine tasks of leadership as outlined in the book “On Leadership” by John W. Gardner. Hamilton presented and ...

Category : Management Tasks