Time And Cost Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

electrical current, they pressed the lever over and over again, hundreds of times per hour, foregoing food or sleep, until many of them dropped dead from exhaustion. Further research found pleasure centers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

Barack Obama, to include it in his State of the Union address and visit the first school. Once the president provided that visibility, and it was on the cover of TIME magazine,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

trying to impress his/her peers and just confuses the customer." Mark Altobello offered an interesting theory: "We try to make the software so flexible to reduce the cost of future changes. But I... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

further growth, and essentially the loss of control of the company by the board, which was even required to remake its composition. At Volkswagen, eerily similar things happened, this View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

subjects.” Few workers have Sandra’s power to influence the strategic decisions that affect their working lives. Such lack of control is associated with job dissatisfaction, greater mental strain, and... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

02 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

iStock How Should We Organize AI Oversight? There is little question about the growing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) and the need for some kind of oversight. But the debate seems to center around whether, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

which for years has remained wedded to a well-developed competency in centralized controls and efficient execution but has steadily lost ground, posting a record $38.7 billion loss in 2007. Such an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

lower level. Finally, executives can use accounting and control systems to adjust the span of influence. For example, the span will be wider for managers who are forced to bear the burden of indirect View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

the regulatory questions, many considered the reimbursement system archaic, dispersed, unpredictable, and unnecessarily time consuming. Many questioned whether the traditional models of reimbursement were... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

diversification. Are there costs of syndication? Undoubtedly. When venture groups team up, it may "soften the competition." In many technologies and regions, there are only a handful of leading... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

"My response was that there's a big difference between a really great product and a company," she said. Given the constraints of costs and the problems of marketing,... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

by: The leader's willingness to uphold organizational values especially when there is some perceived economic cost to doing so. (If values are violated when there is a perceived benefit in doing so, they are little more than guidelines... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

associate knowledge with editorials, professional and customer reviews, and ratings systems. Expanding fulfillment networks get products to customers in increasingly shorter View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

local retailers operate with low inventory and depend on LEGO for just-in-time delivery. The company could build molding factories in Asia to shorten lead times and improve... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

Tony Domit, vice president of a network business unit, began developing a method that used off-the-shelf components to perform the Xerox networked printer-controller functions. Domit's solution used an IBM personal computer, some special chips, View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

students and their middle class and white counterparts, the gap persists. By age nine, African American and Latino students are on average three grade levels behind, View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

cost increases to consumers. This was no longer possible after deregulation. Most of the legacy carriers had a considerable amount of difficulty adjusting to the new environment, and many of the airlines... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

Publications