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Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Capitalism is a book of many chapters—and we are beginning a new one. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a... View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism." McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4 (2010): 45–55.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Employee Selection as a Control System
By: Dennis Campbell
Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Decision Making; Governance Controls; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Management Systems; Financial Services Industry
Campbell, Dennis. "Employee Selection as a Control System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-021, August 2010. (Revised September 2010, April 2012.)
- June 2010 (Revised January 2017)
- Teaching Note
Continental Media Group: Business Highlights
By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for 110087. View Details
- June 2010 (Revised April 2017)
- Teaching Note
Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (A) and (B)
By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Teaching Note for 110003 and 110004. View Details
- June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research
By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Teaching Note for 109017. View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Levers Of Control; Strategy; Risk Management; Decisions; Cooperative Ownership; Product Development; Moral Sensibility; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Expansion; Science-Based Business; Research; Management Practices and Processes; Business Subsidiaries; Biotechnology Industry; Sydney
- June 2010 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Continental Media Group: Business Highlights
By: Robert L. Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Continental Media Group has a series of business reviews struggling to achieve profitability. This case focuses on the use of management control systems to identify emerging opportunities and the formulation of new strategies. The interactive system used by top... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Risk Management; Business Strategy; Publishing Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Kathryn Rosenberg. "Continental Media Group: Business Highlights." Harvard Business School Case 110-087, June 2010. (Revised April 2011.)
- 2010
- Article
Creativity
By: Beth A. Hennessey and Teresa M. Amabile
The psychological study of creativity is essential to human progress. If strides are to be made in the sciences, humanities, and arts, we must arrive at a far more detailed understanding of the creative process, its antecedents, and its inhibitors. This review,... View Details
Hennessey, Beth A., and Teresa M. Amabile. "Creativity." Annual Review of Psychology 61 (2010): 569–598.
- June 2010
- Article
Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers
By: David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Management; Standards; Employees; Wages; Organizations; Profit; Safety; Health; Policy
Levine, David I., and Michael W. Toffel. "Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers." Management Science 56, no. 6 (June 2010): 978–996. (Appendix. Profiled by industry practitioners in Quality Digest, Quality Progress, ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB).)
- 2010
- Book
The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations
Scharfstein, David S., as part of the Squam Lake Working Group. The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
- 2010
- Mimeo
An Analysis of the Impact of 'Substantially Heightened' Capital Requirements on Large Financial Institutions
By: Anil Kashyap, Jeremy C. Stein and Samuel G. Hanson
We examine the impact of "substantially heightened" capital requirements on large financial institutions, and on their customers. Our analysis yields three main conclusions. First, the frictions associated with raising new external equity finance are likely to be... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Credit
Kashyap, Anil, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel G. Hanson. "An Analysis of the Impact of 'Substantially Heightened' Capital Requirements on Large Financial Institutions." 2010. Mimeo.
- Article
Open to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination
By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
Phenomenological assumptions-assumptions about the fundamental qualities of the phenomenon being studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs-affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Knowledge Dissemination; Research; Organizations; Negotiation; Information Publishing
Bendersky, Corinne, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Open to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination." Organization Science 21, no. 3 (May–June 2010): 781–797. (Also published in Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings 2008, Organization and Management Theory Division, under title: Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge.)
- March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Whose Money Is It Anyway? (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan, Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon
The Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's corporate parent? The BWPO and its corporate parent must... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Investment Funds; Governance Controls; Agreements and Arrangements; Boundaries; Health Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Richard G. Hamermesh, and Rachel Gordon. "Whose Money Is It Anyway? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 810-008, March 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
- January 2010 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China
By: William C. Kirby and G.A. Donovan
With the recent announcement from the Chinese government that the country's healthcare system was going to undergo reform, Jiamei Dental Chairman Liu Jia wondered what that meant for his 15 year-old dental clinic business. Founded in 1993, Jiamei Dental Medical... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Private Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Expansion; Health Industry; China
Kirby, William C., and G.A. Donovan. "Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China." Harvard Business School Case 910-404, January 2010. (Revised December 2011.)
- 2010
- Chapter
Understanding and Coping with the Increasing Risk of System-Level Accidents
By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
The world has seen a number of recent events in which major systems came to a standstill, not from one cause alone but from the interaction of a combination of causes. System-level accidents occur when anomalies or errors in different parts of an interconnected system... View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Understanding and Coping with the Increasing Risk of System-Level Accidents." In Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Re, Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010.
- November 2009
- Article
Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry
Many companies operate units that are dispersed across different types of markets, and thus serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarter's ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy... View Details
Keywords: Market Dispersion; Decentralization; Incentives; Business Headquarters; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Distribution; Organizational Design; Franchise Ownership; Retail Industry
Campbell, Dennis, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino. "Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry." Accounting Review 84, no. 6 (November 2009): 1749–1779.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Management and the Financial Crisis (We have met the enemy and he is us...)
The financial crisis of 2008-9 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis
Sahlman, William A. "Management and the Financial Crisis (We have met the enemy and he is us...)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-033, October 2009.
- September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Genzyme Center (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Green Building; LEED Rating System; Economic And Environmental Performance; Program Evaluation And Assessment; Tradeoffs Between Process- And Performance Standards; Buildings and Facilities; Business Headquarters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and Aldo Sesia. "Genzyme Center (A)." Harvard Business School Case 610-008, September 2009. (Revised September 2010.)
- September 2009
- Article
How to Fix Wall Street: Regulation Alone Can't Right the Financial System
By: Lynn S. Paine
Keywords: Stocks; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; System
Paine, Lynn S. "How to Fix Wall Street: Regulation Alone Can't Right the Financial System." HBS Alumni Bulletin (September 2009).
- 2009
- Chapter
The Principles of Embedded Liberalism: Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism
By: Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie
In this essay we revisit the principles of “embedded liberalism” and argue for their relevance to the contemporary global economy. The most essential principle is the need for markets to enjoy social legitimacy, because their political sustainability ultimately depends... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Ethics; International Finance; Globalization; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor
Abdelal, Rawi, and John G. Ruggie. "The Principles of Embedded Liberalism: Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism." In New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151–162. Cambridge, MA: Tobin Project, 2009.
- June 2009 (Revised April 2017)
- Teaching Note
Merck: Managing Vioxx (A)-(G)
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
Teaching Note for [109080], [109081], [109082], [109083], [109084], [109085], and [109086]. View Details