Cost Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54490 May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Most leaders view employee... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

impact of mourning rituals after losses-of loved ones, lovers, and lotteries-on mitigating grief. Participants who were directed to reflect on past rituals or who were assigned to complete novel rituals after experiencing losses reported lower levels of grief.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

company takes that create unintended consequences for others—can be good or bad. An example of a positive externality is reduced healthcare costs for everyone when employees are required to get COVID-19 vaccines. A negative externality... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

efficiency and cost minimization shall be accompanied by more attention toward a diversification and also of the currencies used for transactions. Question: What are some implications for policymakers? Answer: Here there is role for local... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

careers at the Harvard Business School, we discovered that the turnover of CIOs ran at around 30 to 40 percent per year. As a result of our research, we described the driving cause as the rapid change of IT through the operation of Moore's Law (IT View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

larger, but the potential rewards increase, too." “The risks increase as the size of the venue increases, but the potential revenue goes up as well” With arena performances, the Gaga team was looking at some $12 million in start-up production View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

sellers' product spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. We also find that Amazon's entry reduces the shipping... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

A number of studies have suggested that US workers waste between one and two hours a day web surfing, costing their companies billions in lost productivity. In response, some employers have banned private Internet use at the office, a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

people can weigh the costs and benefits of their current behavior taking into consideration its implications for the future, and still choose to engage. One way to test whether people are in fact “rational” about their addictions, Hussam... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

who don’t realize there is a cost for Facebook’s “free” service. Miki Saxon recalled that “Tim Cook once said, ‘If it’s free, then you are the product.’ It seems that Americans are just waking up to that fact ” Malcolm Harper commented,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

This metric incorporates the benefit of free rent and other concessions they receive from landlords on the front-end without disclosing the future costs the company will incur when these concessions burn off. Among several items detailed... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

their global competitiveness. Their approach was simple: They centralized huge scale and built all the Toyotas in Toyoda City. Or they produced all the Panasonic VCRs out of Osaka. These huge, centralized, scale-intensive operations drove their View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

2017
Working Paper

Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean

This working paper examines the history of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other... View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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30 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

Summing Up Future Corporate Governance: Different, But More Effective? Shann Turnbull suggests that the world of corporate governance will benefit from the establishment of "a new type of corporate information and control... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Sep 2006
What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

decision that invites initiative and not followership." But John Inman's comments suggested a concern that was more strongly voiced by others, when he commented that "if you are a command and control manager keep away from... View Details