Management Controls - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

States. "Like the supermajors, we have to be global in our orientation — albeit on a smaller scale — and that includes how we manage our human resources. It can be a challenge to find skilled, multilingual employees who are willing to... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Apr 2002
News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

issue. What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? I graduated from Washington University with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and, just before applying to HBS, I was a management consultant at... View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

privatization garners attention in industries whose importance, infrastructure, and enormous capital needs once put them under the comfortable control of their governments. Historically, observed HBS professor Richard Vietor in his... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

Thus, in many ways, the whole teaching model condemns managers to act after the game is over. Maybe you can't teach intuition, but maybe you can. AG: You can promote intuition. You can recognize the innate aptitude of people to grasp what... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

01 Sep 2004
News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular authority about the strengths and shortcomings of American View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

included virtual onboarding, sales-pipeline restructuring, performance management, M&A acquisition, managing layoffs and furloughs, rethinking the customer experience, and creating financial projections with an unprecedented number of... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

and data on future debt sent to collections. In the first experiment, researchers compared more than 14,000 randomly selected patients for whom RIP Medical Debt relieved a total of about $19 million in debt with a control group of more... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
Case

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations

By: Jeremy Friedman and David Lane

On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, requiring companies to prove that goods imported from the People’s Republic of China were not made with forced labor. The bill was a reaction to reports of products being made with... View Details

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22 Jan 2018
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

sourcing retail partners to ideating and negotiating the deals. I'd also execute on the look and feel of the physical store post-deal. It was a hands-on management role and I absolutely loved the high-intensity nature of my day-to-day.... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

Management in Beijing. The Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin recently caught up with McFarlan and asked him to reflect on his experiences in China, and his thoughts about the future of a country he describes as “a fascinating place... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

founding in 1912. But overall, under 15 percent of US family firms are managed by nonfamily executives, according to the Family Firm Institute. Sadun's team plans to apply the findings of the family firm research in other studies on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

not translate into a greater desire to purchase their preferred item or into an overall benefit for choice satisfaction. Time-of-day controls were used to confirm that the observed effects could not be explained by circadian influences.... View Details

03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

our discussions and suggests directions for research to investigate its validity. Publisher's link: http://pps.sagepub.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/10/1/3.full.pdf+html February 2015 Antitrust Bulletin The Influence of Strategic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

financial gains of diversity are not limited to venture capital but also expand to goods and service-based businesses. Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting There are excellent resources to help train your managers and employees to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Sep 2012
News

Curb Your Smartphone Habit

work-related benefits in the process. Are we literally taking our phones to bed with us? In a survey we did of 1,600 managers and professionals in various organizations across the globe, 26 percent admitted to sleeping with their... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

too little say," said Schumer. "This legislation will give stockholders the ability to apply the emergency brakes the next time the company management appears to be heading off a cliff." Concurrent with Schumer's bill, the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

2015 The $13 Trillion Question: How America Manages Its Debt The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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