Management Control Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

looking to become what they want to be—as opposed to a series of vendor shops.— Pat Chadwick, Bloomingdale's Alan Barnett, senior vice president of merchandise planning and information systems for Barneys New York, noted that "the... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

12 Sep 2024
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Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

and only incinerating non-recyclable combustible waste. Flue gas cleaning systems are used to limit emissions from the combustion process, and continuous emissions monitoring and a high-tech control room... View Details

15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

perpetrator. Finally, I examine how these factors are associated with the impact on competitiveness and find that internally initiated bribery from senior executives is more likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. Bribery detected by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

Though he started his career at a roller bearing manufacturer, Sloan eventually sold the company to GM after realizing that the rapid growth of the automobile industry was essentially controlling his business. Sloan’s attention to... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

We show that capitalism is far from common around the world. Outside a small group of rich countries, heavy regulation of business, leftist rhetoric, and interventionist beliefs flourish. We relate these phenomena to the presence of corruption, with causality running... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Voting; Economic Systems; Fairness; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Emotions

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16 May 2011
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What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

turn indicate to what degree operating managers can control customer satisfaction. Essentially, we're looking at the entire operating system and drilling down to determine... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 May 2005
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Confronting the Reality of Web Services

communication exchanges, are not going to happen unless managers better integrate common standards. McAfee studied IBM's B2B midrange ordering system and interviewed key players to find out what worked and... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective

consolidation. During the period 1897Ð1904 alone, 4,227 American companies were merged into 257 combinations, sometimes forcibly. By 1904, some 318 large firms were alleged to control about 40 percent of the entire nation's manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

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applications and technology products to bring teaching and learning experiences to life. Learning Management Learn more about the HBS Learning Management System services.... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes

Reinhardt writes that for a company to be sustainable, it must have a strategy or development path that maintains an undiminished level of net assets. He argues that if the prices in the firm's accounting systems are the correct ones, the... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes

companies gain flexibility in the range of projects they may undertake. "Hiring outside contractors is a way for managers to access the talent they need to get the work done," says Bradach. Independent contractors reported a greater sense... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

three years ago: "Rethinking the nature of executive pay within the context of our larger economic and social system and the challenges we face may enable us to create a new model of compensation rooted in a more realistic... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

Embroidery. There she experienced all aspects of a small business, from sales to quality control to delivering merchandise. "Every businessperson should have sales experience," she says. "That's where the rubber meets the road. It is also... View Details

12 Jan 2015
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Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

levers that politicians pull to spring the trap, including appointment of favored regulators, control of budget appropriations, and direct arm bending of regulators on behalf of companies they favor. In all these models, the cycle of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

thinking, translating his insights into practice and correcting the most common misconceptions about them. Guide to Managing Growth: Turning Success into Even Bigger Success by Rupert Merson (PMD 71, 1996) (Wiley) Successful growth... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Workshops & Technical Talks - Research Computing Services

data Tesseract for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Workshop Recording (RCS) Principls of Causal Inference Workshop Slides (RCS) Databases and SQL Workshops and Tutorials Working with SQL setup instructions (DB Browser for SQLite), lesson , and reference View Details

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scale drip irrigation systems to customers. Netafim’s digital farming platform, Netbeat, was designed to “empower farmers to monitor, analyze, and control their irrigation systems,” but the firm, which was... View Details

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Convictions, Conventions and the Operational Risk Maze—The Cases of Three Financial Services Institutions

By: Anette Mikes

Making sense of operational risk practices in the financial services sector is a challenge. There is a temptation to explain the wide variety of approaches as a characteristic of the early stage of development in which the genre resides.
Based on the evidence of... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Conflict and Resolution; Organizations; Financial Services Industry

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06 Jun 2005
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Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Casadesus-Masanell decided to dive in. Most research to date into the OSS movement has focused on the organization and management issues surrounding OSS. Ghemawat and Casadesus-Masanell chose to explore the fundamental competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

August 2024 (Revised November 2024)
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No Labels and the 2024 Presidential Insurance Plan

By: Robert F. White and Tom Quinn

After observing record voter dissatisfaction with the choices in the 2024 U.S. presidential election—Democratic nominee President Joe Biden and Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump—the bipartisan nonprofit No Labels decided to reserve ballot access in... View Details

Keywords: Disruption; Forecasting and Prediction; Lawsuits and Litigation; Failure; System Shocks; Political Elections; Motivation and Incentives; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States

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