Management Control Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

Despite a sluggish economy that constrained revenue growth for a second year, HBS finished fiscal year 2003 last June with a balanced budget and double-digit growth in its endowment funds. “Through careful management of our expenses, we... View Details

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

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 of Professor David Moss, an expert on systemic risk in financial markets and an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Management; Management

01 Jun 2007
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James McKenney Remembered

MCKENNEY: The first information systems expert at HBS, he led its early IT efforts. HBS professor emeritus James L. McKenney,an expert in management information systems and the... View Details

Keywords: Information

15 Nov 2018
News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

need a nice job. Like, we talked about how things to really worry are things that have replication capacity. Our algorithms don't self-replicate in any significant way beyond the control of the engineer creating them. A virus, by... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

Chris Lederer, argues that marketers and CEOs urgently need tools to manage vast groups of brands — not as individual elements or collections under one corporate roof but as complex systems that transcend... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

Among the classes Christenson taught at HBS were Managerial Economics and Control in the MBA Program's required curriculum, Management Control in the Owner/President View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

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 that, in contrast to prior... 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... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

SEEQC’s digital control chips should also make quantum computing more affordable: Levy and his team estimate that the infrastructure required to maintain a single qubit currently costs between $8,500 and $15,000, while their chip-based... View Details

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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Making Finance Personal

Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

it has proved beneficial. "Markets have been able to use the information to assess companies more effectively, managers have improved internal processes, and the internal control testing has become more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

June 1997
Background Note

The Normative Foundations of Business

What is the appropriate role for business to play in a capitalist society? In analyzing responses to this question, this note distinguishes two separate dimensions. The first involves the distinctive objective of business as a social institution, considers the pros and... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Economic Systems

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29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her second act as chairman and founder... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

borrowers with more guidance when it comes to managing family finances? No one would argue against better consumer education and more financial literacy for Americans, in general. But the system itself... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management; Management; Management

01 Sep 2006
News

Redefining Health Care

that described why competition in health care had failed. Some health-care experts, he feared, would take offense at any critique written by mere management professors. To the surprise of Porter and coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an... View Details

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

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

at Harvard Business School, where she studies performance management systems in health care and value-based health care implementation strategies. Lidia Moura is a clinical neurologist and director of... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

bikes; now he is exporting to the United States and Europe. Wu and Yin are just two of more than 345,000 dollar millionaires who now live in China. Not only has China left its imperial past far behind. So far, the fastest-growing economy in the world has also View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2010
News

Cardiac Kid

has more than 1,000 workers and expects revenues of about $280 million this year. “The company was founded basically to prevent heart attacks,” Huennekens told the San Diego Union-Tribune (January 25, 2010). To that end, Volcano makes View Details

Keywords: medical devices; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises