Interactive Control Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

system to be unfair. Today any player with four complete seasons (or more) and an expired contract is considered to be an unrestricted free agent. The 2020 free agency is notable for the veritable glut of quarterbacks that became free... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. He goes on to explore the basic principles of the free market View Details

15 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 15

where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social Security system... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

when companies use them to do something they were not designed to do. For example, a product development process designed to create complicated high-end products will not be good at creating simple low-end products. Similarly, a distribution process that involves close... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating and networking with a global community of peers before, during, and after... View Details

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

future begins along Woodward Avenue in the central business district—“Dan Gilbert’s duchy,” Cummings says, as he navigates the city behind the wheel of a silver Chrysler minivan, his Detroit-made Shinola watch glinting in the sun. Gilbert View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

disaggregated "clusters" or "ecosystems" of firms has been widely recognized. But platforms and the systems in which they are embedded are very diverse. In particular, platforms may exist within firms as product lines,... View Details

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

Ann, and Ryan Raffaelli Abstract—The institutional logics perspective highlights how organizations are embedded within broader systems of meaning and how this embeddedness activates salient institutional logics in organizations that can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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with the Agreements and all applicable local, state, national and international laws, rules and regulations, including privacy and copyright laws, any laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from your country of residence, and all United States... View Details

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Control Boston CityScore case Dashboard design Visualization tools: testing hypotheses Project : create a dashboard using Boston city data Exploration with Visualization Finding hidden and unexpected aspects of a data set Uncovering... View Details

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

knowledgeable coach, ready to help users do whatever they need to get done. In fact, the City of Boston has spent the last 3+ years reinventing how it interacts with citizens online in exactly this way. The City Hall team I joined this... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

with open disagreement). The paper thus provides micro-foundations for the idea that bringing a project inside the firm gives the manager control over that project, while explaining concentrated asset ownership, low-powered incentives,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary, and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson's decades of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

physically together during periods of temporary colocation and encourage asynchronous communication and knowledge codification. It is also important to plan for virtual watercoolers to foster informal social interactions in remote... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

women, about 64 percent of the ones who were in the industry in 1995 were no longer in the industry in 2000. Only 33 percent of the male control group exited the industry in the same time frame. There have been some efforts to introduce... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

as Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., Deseret Pharmaceutical Co., New England Nuclear Corp., and Velcro Industries. And by the summer of 1969, it was ready to hire its first associate, Henry McCance, fresh out of three years in defense systems... View Details

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

Organizations and Markets Group and Deborah Kolb, a professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Management, discussed the topic at the Women Enriching Business panel "Women Negotiating in the New Millenium." "The research in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting

your perspective of a candidates' professionalism or fit is critical and can help to address unconscious bias head on by naming it. Another option – offer candidates the choice for a phone or online call with the video off in early View Details