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- 1992
- Book
Corporate Information Systems Management: Text and Cases
By: J. I. Cash Jr., F. W. McFarlan and J. L. McKenney
- September 2022
- Article
Tone at the Bottom: Measuring Corporate Misconduct Risk from the Text of Employee Reviews
By: Dennis W. Campbell and Ruidi Shang
This paper examines whether information extracted via text-based statistical methods applied to employee reviews left on the website Glassdoor.com can be used to develop indicators of corporate misconduct risk. We argue that inside information on the incidence of... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will... View Details
- August 2008
- Case
System on a Chip 2008: Ardentec Corporation
By: Willy C. Shih, Chen-Fu Chien, Chintay Shih and Ting-Chen Chen
Ardentec Corporation is a specialist in "wafer probing," a highly specialized niche sandwiched between the "front-end" and the "back-end" of semiconductor manufacturing. Because the semiconductor industry uses modular processes and has standard containers for the... View Details
- September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
FJ Management Inc.
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble
In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Company History; Family Business; Transformation; Volatility; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cash Flow; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Leadership; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Negotiation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Travel Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Utah
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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog
management systems necessary to bring new ventures from early-stage startups to growth-stage and beyond. Early-stage ventures initially (and naturally) rely on informal interactions to develop their offers,... View Details
- December 2017
- Case
Molino Cañuelas: Serving Customers from Seed Development to the Kitchen Table
By: Jose B. Alvarez, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
Molino Cañuelas was a vertically integrated food company with a management system that allowed it to innovate and grow systematically. With sales of $2 billion in 2016, the firm not only produced flour, vegetable oil, and packaged food products, it also owned a port... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
knowledge in the profession and to maintain a license to practice. Management differs from medicine, law, and other recognized professions in having neither a formal educational requirement nor a system of... View Details
- Web
Creating the Modern Financial System - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Creating the Modern Financial System Course Number 1160 Professor David Moss Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions (with some reserved for paper preparation), 2-hour class sessions Paper/Project Creating the Modern... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- June 1989 (Revised November 1991)
- Supplement
Ingersoll-Rand (B): Managing Multiple Channels--1986
Peter Baldwin takes over Clabough's job and is charged with the responsibility to improve sales force morale, control expenses, and improve market share. View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
companies to allocate and control financial capital, and now we've got to completely change them so they can develop and diffuse intellectual capital and manage human capital. That is what we're writing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- April 1987 (Revised May 1987)
- Supplement
Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (H): Fred Lerner--Inventory Planning and Control
By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine
Managing School Districts for High Performance
Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and... View Details- Program
Managing Health Care Delivery
Summary Today's health care organizations need leaders who can respond to the challenge of delivering greater value through a combination of higher quality, lower cost, and broader access. Managing Health Care Delivery will help you... View Details
- July 2005 (Revised February 2007)
- Background Note
Principles of Family Business System Change
By: John A. Davis
Identifies several practical principles to keep in mind when changing a family business system. View Details
- October 1979 (Revised March 1995)
- Background Note
Note on the Management of Queues
Contains four sections: 1) measuring the performance of queuing systems; 2) types of queuing systems; 3) the behavior of simple systems (elementary queuing theory); and 4) the management of queues (including a discussion of their psychology). View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
- 2023
- Working Paper
State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China
By: Jaya Y. Wen
This paper presents evidence that autocrats use state-owned firms to strategically pacify social unrest via employment provision, a role that may contribute to their favorable treatment and persistence across settings. I use variation in a regional conflict between... View Details
- January 2013 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
Barclays and the LIBOR Scandal
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
In June of 2012, Barclays plc admitted that it had manipulated LIBOR—a benchmark interest rate that was fundamental to the operation of international financial markets and that was the basis for trillions of dollars of financial transactions. Between 2005 and 2009... View Details