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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
and growing difficulties for environmentalists in gaining control of ecosystems through land purchases led these organizations to reassess their opposing strategies. Their 1994 landmark agreement to jointly manage unique forested wetlands... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
brand management that avoids traditional brand tenets of control and competition, largely adopted from the private sector, in favor of a strategic approach centered on the mission and based on participation, shared values, and the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Union and started pulling billions of euros out of the banks. To prevent total collapse, the government closed the banks for three weeks and limited withdrawals to 60 a day. The capital controls hit the population hard; for many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
cross-section or over time. Among the most stable elements in a platform architecture are the modular interfaces that mediate between the platform and its complements. These interfaces are even more stable than the interior core of the platform, thus View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
management control systems. It examines organizations that have authorized their dispersed units to make input and process decisions, organizations that have enabled only managers in a few units to experiment with different inputs and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
of causes. System-level accidents occur when anomalies or errors in different parts of an interconnected system negatively reinforce one another, spiraling up out of control until they eventually drive the system outside of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics." Ph.D. diss., MIT, 1970. Merton, Robert C. "A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of the Capital Structure of the... View Details
- September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling
By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Scheduling; Local Autonomy; Automation; Metrics; Organizational Change; Human Resource Management; Process Improvement; Performance Measurement; Transparency; Southern United States; Retailing; Department Stores; System Outsourced Services; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Governance Controls; Resource Allocation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Applications and Software; Family Business; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Bernstein, Ethan, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats, and Luke Hassall. "Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling." Harvard Business School Case 415-023, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
competing in these new technologies had failed. Should it remain focused on blood gas analysis and redouble its efforts? Or should it turn to other opportunities for growth? CEO and controlling stockholder, Johan Schroder, had denied... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Using scanner panel data from a single California location of a major grocery chain, and completely controlling for consumer heterogeneity, we demonstrate that bringing your own bags simultaneously increases your purchases of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
4,646 public companies in many industries, headquartered in 46 countries during 2005-2008, when environmental disclosure increased among many global corporations. Controlling for a host of organizational, industry, and national... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
desired occupational identity. This practice produces an engaging form of control that relies on management's selective allocation of identity incentives. These findings document a previously overlooked type of control: one reliant on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
refuse to accept the trivialization of black life and justification of social controls like the persistent shadow of police brutality and lethality. They seek to challenge a legal system that has failed to provide justice for too many... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
quota structure in some stores, while testing the existent monthly quota in others. “We had to make sure the stores in the control group did not talk to the stores in the treatment group,” Chung says. Two, the chain sold products ranging... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
policies around rent control and restrictions on building heights put in place to preserve San Francisco's character have also limited the amount of housing, forcing up rents and speeding dislocation. Last year, officials responded with a... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
"Time and size will see to it that the 'structure' takes control Fluctuation (innovation?) happens more at the fringes and the 'creative' parts of the company, less within the structure. And this is what makes corporations 'age' at... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
world that seems to have found a better way than price controls to tame inflation (free trade, competition, innovation, dour central bankers)... and a world with a Starbucks on almost every corner. (Now that's coffee.) In these 25 years... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
credit constraints, and I find no imbalance in observable characteristics between treatment and control groups. These findings strongly suggest social safety nets have spillover benefits on the supply of firms. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
tax per dollar of pre-tax income than non-PE backed firms, after controlling for NOLs and debt tax shields. We find additional tax savings for PE-backed portfolio firms that are either majority-owned or owned by large PE firms, consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
firms in our sample, making it difficult to control for these effects across economies. Practical implications—Government involvement in state-owned enterprises may be contributing to a divergence in the pattern of business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace