Management Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

Toyota, Canon, and Matsushita are saying the latter system is better. Companies adopting U.S.-style governance, however, are in the minority. Q: Besides case production, what other activities is the JRO involved in that may be of interest... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

19 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers

technologists are building sophisticated systems with interfaces that are as simple for marketers and designers to manipulate as their iPhones. FutureM—an upcoming gathering of marketing and technology leaders that kicks off Oct. 22, will... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang; Advertising; Technology

2012
Article

Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

By: B. Staats and F. Gino

Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details

Keywords: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning

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01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

gained broad support from a wide range of influential economists, lawmakers, and interest groups. In March 2008, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (MBA ’70) proposed that the Federal Reserve be empowered as a super regulator to seek out and View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

develop a high-level blueprint of the IT systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers, and design a management system and scorecard with which to run... View Details

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

Guide to Changes 10 Years after the 1995 Bank Crisis Authors:Gustavo A. Del Angel, Stephen Haber, and Aldo Musacchio Abstract After the 1995 crisis, the Mexican banking system experienced significant changes in bank accounting standards.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2007
News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines before coming to HBS. But it did not prepare him for the economic disparity and differences in political systems he witnessed in these countries.... View Details

17 Sep 2020
News

HBS Goes Back To School

interactions with each other are at the heart of this education.” Among the changes that Shad General Manager Sue LaRose has seen during re-opening is the appointment system for the facility and the tennis... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

The Next Big Swing

MLB Advanced Media’s new Statcast system provides measures for every play, arming analysts like Tippett with a wealth of new data. (Courtesy of MLB.com) Tom Tippett’s love of sports data began at age seven, when his mom bought him a... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Clark; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

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Judging | New Venture Competition

become the next big idea with significant economic impact. Companies may also have a social mission but are primarily focused on building high-growth profit-oriented businesses. Semifinal & Finals Semifinal and Finals Judges are Managing... View Details

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

They collected application data using the US Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System database, and when data for a particular college wasn’t available, they contacted the school’s admissions office for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

water management technologies because they were aware of its weaknesses. "The basic problem from the farmers' point of view is that the water is in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Reinhardt. It's also one of the reasons... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

and management and faculty chair of HBS’s Health Care Initiative, is considering how the health care system might look once the current pandemic has passed. In a Harvard Business Review article, he outlines... View Details

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

conflict—that could be revived with an influx of financial resources, and that would ensure fair distribution of the fruits of the resulting growth. Today the poorest regions of the world benefit from no such infrastructure. And what View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

01 Aug 2001
News

J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)

after graduating from HBS. "He struck a chord with me because of the way he could identify and analyze complex problems, then develop implementation plans to solve them." In 1960, Livingston and Fox founded Management View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; J. Sterling Livingston; George P. Baker; Government

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

worldwide, the two-day event opened with a special interactive presentation by HBS professors Joseph Fuller and William Kerr called The Future of Work—And Managing the Impact of COVID-19. Fuller and Kerr serve as co-directors of the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

organizations also have an involved information-literate senior management (for example, Cisco), as well as deeply competent, general-management-articulate IT managers who are able to translate their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

18 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

debt needed to fund the transaction. Covers issues such as identifying and attracting bidders; dealing with the concerns of the managers of the selling company; negotiating issues in a definitive merger agreement; and post-sale issues.... View Details