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The Function of Outlet Stores
Outlet stores are ubiquitous in the retail environment, and many firms sell goods through outlets as well as their primary stores. Using a highly detailed data set from a major U.S. luxury fashion goods firm, Professor Ngwe is able to look at market segmentation by... View Details
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Functional Centralization and the Division of Labor in Management
By: Julie Wulf, Maria Guadalupe and Hongyi Li
This paper shows that the trend towards flatter hierarchies in large US firms since the mid-80's has been accompanied by increased centralization of activities at the top of the organization. In particular, the number of functional managers (e.g., Chief Financial... View Details
- May – June 2011
- Article
One-Switch Independence for Multiattribute Utility Functions
By: Ali E Abbas and David E. Bell
Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell. "One-Switch Independence for Multiattribute Utility Functions." Operations Research 59, no. 3 (May–June 2011): 764–771.
- 1999
- Article
Functional MRI in Children with Epilepsy
By: S. Y. Bookheimer, M. Dapretto and Uma R. Karmarkar
Bookheimer, S. Y., M. Dapretto, and Uma R. Karmarkar. "Functional MRI in Children with Epilepsy." Developmental Neuroscience 21 (1999): 191–199.
- 1982
- Book
Managing the Data Resource Function
By: R. L. Nolan
Keywords: Management
Nolan, R. L. Managing the Data Resource Function. 2nd ed. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1982.
- June 2001
- Article
Form and Function in Experimental Design
By: A. E. Roth
Keywords: Design
Roth, A. E. "Form and Function in Experimental Design." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24, no. 3 (June 2001).
- July 2014 (Revised November 2014)
- Background Note
The Structure and Functioning of the Fashion Industry
By: Mukti Khaire and Hannah Catzen
Fashion is the quintessential social-consumption good; all consumers comply with or react to fashion. Although very few consumers actually control trends, virtually every consumer is affected by fashion and contributes to it by adopting or rejecting popular styles. A... View Details
- November 1990 (Revised November 1991)
- Supplement
Apple Computer (C1): Reorganizing the Human Resource Function
Provides a follow-up to the (C) case. A new organization chosen for the human resource (HR) function is described. Students must compare the design chosen by Apple's HR managers with the one they chose. View Details
Gibbs, Michael J. "Apple Computer (C1): Reorganizing the Human Resource Function." Harvard Business School Supplement 491-063, November 1990. (Revised November 1991.)
- March 1987 (Revised November 1989)
- Background Note
Functional Integration: Getting All the Troops to Work Together
Explains the need for functional integration and the four ways to obtain it. A bibliography is provided. The note is managerial rather than scholarly in tone. View Details
Keywords: Integration
Shapiro, Benson P. "Functional Integration: Getting All the Troops to Work Together." Harvard Business School Background Note 587-122, March 1987. (Revised November 1989.)
- October 1994
- Case
Olympus Optical Company, Ltd. (B): Functional Group Management
Documents the emergence of the functional group management system at Olympus's camera manufacturing facility. This system increases the pressure on the work force to decrease costs and improve output by treating the facility's 10 autonomous groups as profit centers,... View Details
Cooper, Robin. "Olympus Optical Company, Ltd. (B): Functional Group Management." Harvard Business School Case 195-073, October 1994.
- September 2009
- Article
Finding Matrices that Satisfy Functional Equations
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Finding Matrices that Satisfy Functional Equations." College Mathematics Journal 40, no. 4 (September 2009): 289–292. (As part of "Classroom Capsules.")
- 2009
- Chapter
Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions
By: David E. Bell and Ralph L. Keeney
All of us make decisions that are not entirely self-centered; we voluntarily anticipate what we think to be the preferences of others and incorporate them into our decision making. We do this, not because of legal requirements or social norms, but because we are... View Details
Bell, David E., and Ralph L. Keeney. "Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions." In The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order, edited by Steven Brams, William V. Gehrlein, and Fred S. Roberts, 27–38. Studies in Choice and Welfare. Springer, 2009.
- October 1990 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Marriott Corp.: The Internal Audit Function
By: Robert L. Simons
Simons, Robert L. "Marriott Corp.: The Internal Audit Function." Harvard Business School Case 191-007, October 1990. (Revised January 1992.)
- 1993
- Chapter
Deposit Insurance Reform: A Functional Approach
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Insurance Industry; Banking Industry
Merton, Robert C., and Zvi Bodie. "Deposit Insurance Reform: A Functional Approach." In Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy. Vol. 38, edited by A. Meltzer and C. Plosser. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1993.
- 2013
- Chapter
Weighted Generating Functions for Type II Lattices and Codes
By: Noam D. Elkies and Scott Duke Kominers
We give a new structural development of harmonic polynomials on Hamming space, and harmonic weight enumerators of binary linear codes, that parallels one approach to harmonic polynomials on Euclidean space and weighted theta functions of Euclidean lattices. Namely, we... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
Elkies, Noam D., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Weighted Generating Functions for Type II Lattices and Codes." In Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms. Vol. 31, edited by Alladi Krishnaswami, Manjul Bhargava, David Savitt, and Pham Huu Tiep, 63–108. Developments in Mathematics. Springer, 2013.
- 2000
- Chapter
Value Maximization and the Corporate Objective Function
By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Value Creation
Jensen, Michael. "Value Maximization and the Corporate Objective Function." In Breaking the Code of Change, edited by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. (Forthcoming in Management Revolution: The Legacy of the Market for Corporate Control, Harvard University Press. Reprinted in Business Ethics Quarterly, v 12, No 1, 2001, & European Financial Management, v.7, no.3, September 2001.)
- Article
A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation
By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Finance
Merton, Robert C. "A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation." Financial Management 24, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 23–41.
- 1995
- Book
The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective
By: D. B. Crane, K. A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, André Perold, R. C. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. R. Sirri and P. Tufano
Crane, D. B., K. A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, André Perold, R. C. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. R. Sirri, and P. Tufano. The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.
- 2007
- Chapter
The Governance of New Firms: A Functional Perspective
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "The Governance of New Firms: A Functional Perspective." In Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present, edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, 405–432. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.