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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Going Beyond the ‘Self’ in Self-Control: Interpersonal Consequences of Commitment Strategy Use

By: Ariella Kristal and Julian Zlatev
Commitment strategies are effective mechanisms individuals can use to overcome self-control problems. Across seven studies (and three supplemental studies), we explore the negative interpersonal consequences of commitment strategy use. In Study 1, using an incentivized... View Details
Keywords: Self-control; Willpower; Commitment Strategies; Goals and Objectives; Behavior; Strategy; Perception
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  • November 2019
  • Article

Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup boot camp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality... View Details
Keywords: Peer Effects; Field Experiment; Interpersonal Communication; Creativity; Personal Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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  • 2011
  • Teaching Note

Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes: Transforming the Management Control System in Time of Crisis (TN)

By: Ning Jia, F. Warren McFarlan and Xiaohui Li
Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes Co. is a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) that manufactures cast pipe products and steel products. The company had grown to become a dominant player in the ductile iron pipe industry, holding more than 40% domestic market share and nearly... View Details
Keywords: Control Systems; Cost Centers; Manufacturing; Profit Centers; China; Iron ＆ Steel; China
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  • 2011
  • Case

Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes: Transforming the Management Control System in Time of Crisis

By: Ning Jia, F. Warren McFarlan and Xiaohui Li
Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes Co. is a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) that manufactures cast pipe products and steel products. The company had grown to become a dominant player in the ductile iron pipe industry, holding more than 40% domestic market share and nearly... View Details
Keywords: Control Systems; Cost Centers; Manufacturing; Profit Centers; China
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability

By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Central Banking; Risk Management
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    Open Innovation – How can I use the crowd?

    Innovation has become an urgent imperative for entrepreneurial and established organizations. Over the last decade, in industries as diverse as fashion design, media software, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and automotive, the most cutting edge organizations have... View Details
    • Web

    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    measurement systems to: Communicate with external investors to ensure that their firms' securities are fairly priced and that they are able to access capital, Measure and evaluate their firms' economic performance, Improve resource... View Details
    • 26 Apr 2024
    • HBS Case

    Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

    opportunities must be actively cultivated and pursued. “He can shape players into being the most marketable they can be,” says Gibson. “Today, a college football coach needs to understand business and the acumen that goes into external... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
    • July 2014
    • Article

    Project Complexity and Systems Integration: Constructing the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games

    By: Andrew Davies and Ian Mackenzie
    Our study of the London Olympics 2012 construction programme showed that systems integration is one of the major challenges involved in delivery of a complex "system of systems"—or array—project. Organizations cope with complexity by decomposing a project into... View Details
    Keywords: Integration; Construction; Complexity; Sports; Projects; Construction Industry; Sports Industry; London
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

    By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and David Dreyfus
    We test a method that was designed and used previously to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software systems. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the components and their relationships in an enterprise... View Details
    Keywords: Complexity; Applications and Software; Product Design; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Asset Specificity and Vertical Integration: Williamson's Hypothesis Reconsidered

    By: Christian Alejandro Ruzzier
    A point repeatedly stressed by transaction cost economics is that the more specific the asset, the more likely is vertical integration to be optimal. In spite of the profusion of empirical papers supporting this prediction, recent surveys and casual observation suggest... View Details
    Keywords: Assets; Vertical Integration
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    • February 1999 (Revised March 2000)
    • Case

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Coordinating Patient Care

    External cost pressures are motivating the adoption of case management (CM) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), but several of the organization's key professional groups are working against it. President and CEO David Dolins must decide whether CM is... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Boston
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    • Web

    Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research

    faculty Co-Chairs George Serafeim and Ethan Rouen. The mission of the Project was to drive the creation of financial accounts that reflect a company’s financial, social, and environmental performance. The ambition was to create accounting statements that transparently... View Details
    • Program

    Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

    agent of corporate change and organizational renewal. Details Drive the changes your organization needs to thrive Anticipate, evaluate, and proactively respond to external shifts Analyze disruptive technologies as both threats and... View Details
    • Research Summary

    The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

    By: Laura Alfaro
    The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Information Intermediation

    Christopher F. Noe's research involves examining a variety of issues relating to the process through which firms communicate with external parties. He has shown that trading by corporate officials in their own firms shares of common stock increases in the period... View Details

    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Novel Risks

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Anette Mikes
    All organizations practice some form of risk management to identify and assess routine risks in their operations, supply chains, strategy, and external environment. These risk management policies, however, fail in the presence of novelty. Novel risks arise from... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Policy; Failure; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    The Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities

    By: David J. Collis and Bharat Anand
    The concept of dynamic capabilities draws its theoretical basis from two classic traditions within the strategy field—the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) (Wernerfelt, 1984) and market positioning (Porter, 1996). A dynamic capability qualifies as a source of... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Business Ventures; Performance; Competitive Advantage
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking

    By: Jan Bouwens and Arnt Verriest
    This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure for a large sample of international financial institutions. We seek empirical evidence suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue... View Details
    Keywords: Managerial Equity Ownership; Financial Risk; Banks; Motivation and Incentives; Risk Management; Employee Ownership; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    Oracle Corporation

    By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
    Oracle Corp., the world's second-largest independent software company (behind Microsoft) was the world's dominant supplier of database software. Oracle also sold application software, such as the popular enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Innovation and Invention; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
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