Systems Of Management Controls - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

restrict the religious groups' acreage and make the roads even wider to control foot traffic—and land disputes-even more? What about expanding the festival site northward, thereby creating the equivalent of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

regulatory, and quality control expertise. On average, the client eventually accepts only 15% of all new flavors for full market evaluation, and only 5% to 10% make their way to the marketplace. Meanwhile,... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

developed a database of the CEOs of the same companies to find out everything I could about them from a demographic and career management standpoint. What part View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

communications readers used by Apple Pay unless consumer demand is high. First off, Apple must convince merchants to adopt its service, says Willy Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

17 Mar 2011
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Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

JP(D) and foreign inventors JP(F) patenting in Japan. Source: Tom Nicholas, "The Origins of Japanese Technological Modernization", Explorations in Economic History (2011, forthcoming). http://people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/Jmod.pdf... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

to be on that list,” says Moss. “It’s been somewhat effective both in deterring firms from areas of systemic risk that could land them on the list and, particularly, in subjecting those that are View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Nov 2012
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LEED-ing by Example

accreditation. Also, the use of the LEED standard increased among private builders in the same local markets. "Our paper describes several different ways in which these policies might stimulate private markets for greener building," says... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

10 Jul 2000
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IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

control. With the path-based approach you've got to have your eye out for how easily is this thing going to integrate with things I haven't even thought of yet. "A key question to ask yourself as you are building View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial View Details