Systems Of Management Controls - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

system: Where are the best people and ideas in your field? "If you believe that knowledge is more and more globally distributed, chances are not all the best people work for you," he declared. Can you control the leakage View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

New economy companies may be moving at the speed of light, but they still need managers who can get the job done, according to career development experts who spoke at the African-American Student Union... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

through an auction, it does not set prices. See, e.g., Larry Page's May 2008 remarks to C|NET: "AdWords is an auction. We're not setting prices. Auctions are determined by supply and demand." 1 I disagree. Google controls a... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

set up a payment system under her new company’s name—all in one day and all on her mobile phone while (I hope) doing her regular work. Needless to say, she can mentor me any day. Of course, reverse mentoring... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

chairman at AT&T as it was being broken up. "In the regulated days, Bell system employees—myself included—genuinely believed they were doing the best they could and acting in the best interests of... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

improve. But we have a political system that's increasingly about today's news. This mismatch has probably gotten worse in the last 10 or 20 years. The politics of economic policy is never easy, but we used... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

feel. Lees and Cikara found similar results for other scenarios, involving changes to selection of judges, campaign financing, and renaming of a state highway. (The researchers purposefully stayed away from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

weighting system where each opportunity can be rated against the factors discussed in this article. Nonconsumers exist in every market. When the highest-potential opportunity has been identified, build a preliminary business case for it.... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

automobiles; it was up to Huber to figure out what that meant. Primarily the GM leadership was looking to justify GM's earlier multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Hughes Aircraft (which included commercial satellites) and Electronic Data... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

the social fiction, as you call it, that there are very few qualified CEO candidates available? A: There are two big factors that have influenced this. The first is the rise of the institutional investor. Before this, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

performance management system into corporate governance processes. The Balanced Scorecard strategy map portrays, on a single page, a company's strategy. It includes the financial outcomes expected;... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

long-term view change this? A: Traditional asset allocation models—I am thinking here of mean-variance models, which are very popular in the asset management industry—typically recommend that the mix View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

05 Aug 2010
What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

Jacoline Loewen pointed out that "Asking the customer's opinion is great for quality control check(s), but for creative strategy get beyond the client." Gerald Nanninga commented that "consumers are very good at explaining frustrations... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

to manage in the zone. Customer Relationship Management systems often supply the relevant data, but are they used? Activity-based costing methodologies (pioneered over two... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

language originally intended to inform an investor, which now protects the offerers. —D. Quinn Mills "While some analysts insist that Quattrone believed in honest research, others say he tried to bully them. `I'll have you out of... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

of the firm. There is substantial evidence for this: see Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller's book Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses. These... View Details