Time And Cost Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

involvement, and commented on the role of market forces. A number of you expressed the hope that the private sector can provide adequate response to a problem that is either real or increasingly perceived to be so. Commenting that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

the value chain framework to define the set of activities through which products and services are created and delivered to customers.6 Once activities are defined, it is then possible to analyze the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

number of additional analyses we conducted confirm that our findings are most likely driven by changes in individuals’ opportunity costs of starting new ventures as a result of worsening labor market conditions View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

something new to spur on their employees. According to Beer, managers in many companies look to pay-for-performance for good reasons. They expect that it will attract and motivate people. They expect performance standards will outweigh... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

prevalent for large diversified companies that operate in many different businesses. Financial analysts and investors may have an especially difficult time understanding what's going on in these companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

to the theoretical, empirical, and managerial problems salient at that time and comment on the likely reasons the paper has had a sustained influence in the field. Looking... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

Control and Prevention—using big data, such as cellular data, credit card usage information, and surveillance camera footage—traced the infected person’s steps to locate... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

07 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

editing commercials, Teixeira and his coauthors show that "pulsing" repeated, brief images of the brand can significantly reduce the likelihood that viewers will zap it, as opposed to showing the brand for long periods of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

their own goals, appraise their own achievements, and reach their own conclusions about how to improve. Managers should also spend more of their time inspiring (through stories) View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

there is less time pressure, in which the decisions are not highly visible to evaluative others, and more generally, when the real costs and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

characters, and through these emotions the characters live inside us, sometimes just for the length of time it takes to read and discuss their story, but often for much, much... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

mistrustful of exotic foods." He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

communication—some vendors and futurists paint a scenario where businesses collaborate and compete in profound new ways. But your research suggests that this is not happening View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

PeopleImages New business school graduates have now made their way from campus to workplace. For them, this should be a time of optimism and energy, of setting ambitious goals View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

02 May 2012
What Do You Think?

Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?

ability to learn from "repeated failure" (Shadreck Saili), "a quest for integrity" (Adriano Pianesi), a combination of ego control and "ambition for the institution" (Bruno... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

category known as “new nuclear,” which offers the potential to dramatically reduce costs and rapidly ramp up installations when compared to today’s nuclear power plants. But the success of new nuclear—and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

infrastructure; and soaring costs all threaten to detract from the good vibes of the Games, which begin Friday. As of two weeks ago, Sochi had sold only 70 percent of tickets—compared to 97 percent for the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

handles that. And can he use those negotiating skills and those communication skills and create shared value skills in a situation where there’s no walk-away option View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Publications