Span Of Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization

problem in geopolitics, it’s not going to be by begging countries to leave our weakness alone. We have to resolve the weakness. RDT: The information landscape used to be something that was controlled by each country. It was ours. We had a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information

15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI

need a nice job. Like, we talked about how things to really worry are things that have replication capacity. Our algorithms don't self-replicate in any significant way beyond the control of the engineer... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

There is electricity in the air at 7:00 a.m. at Il Fornaio, Palo Alto's hottest breakfast spot. The cappuccino maker runs nonstop, the energetic waitstaff hustles to and from the kitchen, a steady stream of Silicon Valley celebs walk in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Apr 2014
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In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs

return on investment. With more than 70 percent of consumer dollars worldwide being controlled by women, now is the time for them to explore business opportunities. “My advice to female entrepreneurs is to... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

in, but there is not a well-developed system to support foreign investors. The bureaucrats here are used to having minute control of every transaction; that doesn't work in the modern business world." After... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

01 Dec 2017
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Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis

Refugee Crisis,” which both he and Fabbe taught in May 2016 during the required first-year Business, Government, and the International Economy course. The case asks students to consider the issue from the point of view View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

2023, Google and Bing both launched their own versions of a chatbot for search. The AI boom was underway—and so was the AI research boom. Many predict that GenAI will change the face of business as... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Sep 2017
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Narrow Networks On The Health Insurance Marketplaces: Prevalence, Pricing, And The Cost Of Network Breadth

12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

own future and control what its destiny is. We say that our mission is to help build a better Internet, and people sometimes sort of smile, but if you talk to the people at Cloudflare they go, No no we’re... View Details

15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

an interesting guy. He was trained to fly by the Australian Air Force. When you're taught to fly by the Air Force, you're taught to think in a very specific way, a way of controlling your attention which... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder

and flexible full-time positions is good business (the company has franchises nationwide and saw revenues of $16.2 million in 2012). O’Kelly has declined venture capital funding to maintain more control over... View Details

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Will President Trump Learn on the Job?

01 Sep 2006
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Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass

vessel gets caught and confiscated, that’s just the cost of doing business for the illegal operators. But the countries that control the fisheries don’t have a choice. They have to enforce the regulations,... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

03 Dec 2019
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Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring

ideas. The conversations are different over decades, so this is a chance to span those perspectives. It‘s a chance for knowledge transfer and mentorship.” Typically, hosts are asked not to reveal the guest list to any View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

not been as successful as originally envisioned, companies may be reluctant to allow research to be published at this time. To address this concern, we need to raise awareness of our research controls for... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

onstage during Spring Reunions, McGinnis and I discuss the broad span of these ideas. Namely, how these forces at work in our social lives can also impact our professional lives—and how we can manage them.... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

articles from the Wall Street Journal and The Economist they learn about "decision rights" and alienability and how these institutional devices solve the control problems in a capitalist society. The second portion View Details