Interactive Control Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of... View Details

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

activities can be located inside a firm or across firm boundaries. In the latter case, activities may involve customers, suppliers, partners, or other stakeholders. Accompanying the physical value chain is a related information value chain through which involved... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

Among the classes Christenson taught at HBS were Managerial Economics and Control in the MBA Program's required curriculum, Management Control in the Owner/President Management Program, and a doctoral... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance policies, under consumer-driven... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

superintendent. Whether that individual is an educator or not doesn’t matter — leadership is what counts.” Resident Executives Trying to achieve similar change in the New York City school system is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966)... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

interactions and practice type were related to maintenance of certification exam scores, controlling for initial Qualifying Exam scores, practice type, and personal characteristics. Main Outcome Measure:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

exponentially increasing the speed and flow of that information, making the system that much more transparent. And we have social media restoring democracy with free speech. Before all of this, the information flow was much more View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

Profile

Daniel Serna

percent of the food served could be described as 'sustainable.' By the time I left, we he had lifted it to fifty percent." Leaving the comfort zone In the summer of 2007, Dan participated in HBS' Summer Ventures in Management Program. "I wanted to leave my... View Details

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

vote on Election Day in every precinct.Paid television advertising, the air war, can give a candidate broad coverage and control of the message but is expensive. Similarly, the ground war requires an expensive investment in personnel.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

consumers make complementary choices in purchase decisions (e.g., chips and salsa), product inter-operabilities (smartphones and networks), and dynamic decisions (current exercise and future healthcare consumption). Multiple consumers make complementary choices when... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jan 2002
What Do You Think?

Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?

bit wider for the implementation of systems designed to enable our behaviors as consumers to be tracked even more fully? What do you think? Original Article In the past several years, significant fears have been expressed concerning the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2004
News

A Market-Based Prescription

curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom to use out-of-network... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

activities. Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Periodical:The Accounting Review (forthcoming)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

interaction of goals and measures with human behavior. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117112-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-113 Management Control View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

recorded information including the asking price of the rental, the characteristics of the apartment or room, and the average rating each host had received. (The site's structured rating system lets guests rate the hosts and properties on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2006
News

Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China

While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

Cespedes: For most firms, the largest, most difficult, and increasingly expensive part of strategy implementation is aligning field behaviors and go-to-market systems with espoused strategic goals. It's the largest because doing this well... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

November 2010
Teaching Note

Saudi Arabia: Modern Reform, Enduring Stability. Dubai: Global Economy (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Teaching Note for 709042 and 709043. View Details

Keywords: Economy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Globalization; Balance and Stability; Saudi Arabia; Dubai

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01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

company’s well-publicized problems. After all, Google can now provide an Oxford dictionary definition of the Metaverse as “a virtual reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users.” It has... View Details