Systems Of Management Controls - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

Universität München and Harvard Business School professor Carliss Y. Baldwin. Key concepts include: Controlling too much of the system's intellectual property will deter outside innovation, but View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Mar 2012
News

Get Creative

program, featuring a takeoff on “get out of jail free” cards from the board game Monopoly. This wasn’t a blockbuster like the new shaving systems for women, but it showed that everyone has a role to play in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

collection of patient physiological measurements such as blood pressure, weight, or blood glucose levels—and both commercial health insurers as well as the Medicare system have seen dramatic increases in the... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

08 Dec 2009
News

Don’t Scare the Bankers

intended) of Foxwoods than Bretton Woods, it is the bankers who have scared the rest of us to death. A measure of that concern can be found in the work View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Offices of Bank Holding Companies; Offices of Bank Holding Companies; Offices of Bank Holding Companies

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Management; Management

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

has become adept at handling complex medical problems (the market's high-end need) but is no longer able to treat simple conditions (low-end need) with any semblance of cost-effectiveness. Enter managed... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Management; Management

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

bailout correctly, we could create an even riskier financial system in the years ahead." Moss's work as a historian has focused on how and why governments manage risk. Throughout its history, the United... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

now give to the overall benefits of globalization. As practiced today, Ricardo's classic system results in win-win exchanges when both trading partners are either (1) industrialized nations with modern... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship Stacey Childress and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 310-052 After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, the state had taken over 102 View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Shattering Glass

change, but we also realize that there is a manager managing these processes. If you have a good process and a non-inclusive manager, nothing will change. In the book we ask, What does it mean to be an... View Details

Keywords: April White; gender equity; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

21 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-023.pdf Employee Selection as a Control System... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Jeremy Andrus

chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel developer for a Marriott franchisee. Before HBS, I was a management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

definition of that for the layman? How long has the concept been around in marketing? Wathieu: The idea involves letting consumers take control of variables that are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

thinking to guide management decisions. Thus, Peter Drucker argued that "management is not just passive, adaptive behavior; it means taking action to make the desired results come to pass." He noted that economic theory had long... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

06 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 6

methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find... 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; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

23 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

system, and, second, an understanding of the industry architecture in which the technical system is embedded. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they... View Details