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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
stimulative enough—and they were worried about their reelection prospects. Now you've got a world capital market that is acutely sensitive about what the Fed does. One thing underreported in the media is that when the Fed flooded the US banking View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Goodwin Illustration by Jack Unruh Over the past two decades, Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007) has made a career of getting involved in complex and intractable global crises, from helping to rebuild the Iraqi Ministry of Health to directing... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
it into a standalone business, continue publishing in academic journals, license their content to an established medical vendor, or some combination of these? This case allows students to develop and evaluate approaches to disseminating simple and proven innovations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
lower level. Finally, executives can use accounting and control systems to adjust the span of influence. For example, the span will be wider for managers who are forced to bear the burden of indirect cost allocations generated by other... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
advertising market—one that suffers quite a different set of problems. Display advertising systems place ads-typically, rectangular "banners"—on the majority of popular web sites. Though display ads are widespread, they are also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Sebastian Vargas
possible for me because in movies, software engineers were always portrayed as hacking into complex systems from an early age. I was nowhere near that level. Plus, I had no role model that I could talk to... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
achieving results across the entire system, moving from planning to action and ensuring fidelity of implementation on such an enormous scale is very difficult. Redesigning the structures and systems of a district so that they are coherent... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
operating system for dealing with elective (largely surgical) patients. By opening an emergency room, however, the institution is now called upon to care for complex and highly variable medical patients.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
integral component of management control systems and play a significant role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental performance objective—reduction of carbon emissions—as a setting in which to examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community
How I incorporated my experience in the Asian American community at HBS into co-founding Fish Sauce. Wilson Kyi (MBA '18) graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering and worked... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
course, affects investor confidence. Given that fragility, what rules and enforcement are appropriate? The capital markets are so complex and fast-moving that their integrity must in the end rely on self-regulation, rather than on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
The cult of the CEO is complex and persistent—and usually not good for business, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Khurana recently fielded questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview about his... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
the second day of the workshop, Popik met Steve Mott, a nuclear engineer who works at the Palo Verde Generating Station, in Arizona, the largest nuclear power complex in the United States. Mott told Popik about a particularly terrifying... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
terms of value created for customers, employees, and shareholders? If the latter, is it the natural result of a system of incentives geared to short-term financial rather than longer-term business benefits? And what does it say about the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
complex question—and some straightforward advice for organizations committed to change. In the last half of the 20th century, women made great advances in the business world. Why has this progress stalled? Colleen Ammerman: Women were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
purchase monthly shares by weight, rather than à la carte, resulting in a fulfillment process that is “relatively complex and pretty unique,” Cummings says. Every order—with 5 to 30 items, selected from 100 products stacked on a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
numbers of stakeholders potentially influencing decisions, with teams and flatter organizations, and with command, control, hierarchy, and authority systems often unable to elicit crucial cooperation and commitment." In addition, he notes... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
principles of partnership. Tierney: In these businesses, the people you pay are more important than the people who pay you. Your people are your product. This creates a complex and unforgiving business: If a professional service firm’s... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
"custom assembly." In the former, managers pick an existing manufacturing system here, a human resources and finance system there, and bring them together to serve the operation's needs. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner