Time And Cost Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

behave and operate in a more sustainable way? It allows you to envision new markets, new opportunities, and new needs. Very few companies have reached this stage." Boosting Commitment Many companies... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

four times over the last hundred years they've been in existence." But he said they still offer customers a variety that many value. "It's hard to find a store today in the country where you can go in View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

high levels of employee engagement "turns around and pays back multiple times what you invest in it," Gochnauer said. And sometimes, boards do get it. "I find that boardrooms... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Feb 2023
Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

a bit more in control of things—we’re not, the world is not in our control—but there is a sense that if you can do this repeated, familiar set of steps, it increases your sense of control View Details

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

broad or focused managers, to leverage, to the timing of investment, and finally, to the compensation paid to both external managers and internal staff. Purchase this note:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

Playing on social media, particularly when the playful activity occurs in real time during a live event, can charm an audience—while in some cases costing little to do so. Dutch shipping container company... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

11 Jul 2017
News

The Right Thing to Do

Whistleblower,” tells the story of Sherry Hunt, Citibank, and the frauds that caused the Great Recession. Hunt started at Citi as a mortgage quality control officer in 2004, just as the housing bubble was... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

When American companies move pieces of their operations overseas—often because manufacturing and labor costs are much cheaper—they run the risk of moving the expertise, innovation, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

Kerr and Lincoln analyzed Current Population Survey data on that time period. Not surprisingly, growth in the H-1B program directly correlated with an uptick in the number of immigrants working in science... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

lot of time by the water in the San Francisco Bay Area. I would catch and forage fish, crab, mussels, and sea urchin, and bring them home to eat!... View Details

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

deal of time trying to concoct a strategy for dealing with this unsettling cyber-priest. But there really wasn't much that they could do, so they left Gaillot and his liberal site alone. Partenia had won. In... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2014
News

Roads to Recovery

radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Nov 2009
News

Health Reform Paths Not Taken

health plans would penalize their members for hard-won concessions from employers. Given the torrent of ink and days of air time devoted to both topics, HBS professor Regina Herzlinger offers a refreshing... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance

26 Jul 2016
First Look

July 26, 2016

and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

2013. The sudden price increase not only increased the likely acquisition price for an ownership stake in Hefei Sanyo, but also meant that Whirlpool had lost the luxury of both time and secrecy. Lee had to... View Details