Control Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

full-control-to-no-control spectrum, it’s more likely to fall in the ill-defined middle, where company and worker could split control factors many different ways. Trouble is, our legal system can’t be... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services

01 Jan 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

system (largely intended to identify the attractiveness or special needs of a potential immigrant) used in Canada and some other countries.” Do you agree with David Wittenberg regarding the adoption of a Canadian-style View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-101 Management Control Systems Module 1: Managing Organizational Tensions This module lays the foundation for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and Democratic ideas about health insurance. More choice, affordability, and personal control A... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

01 Dec 1998
News

New Releases

and product markets." Jensen and his contributors detail three major systems that play a critical role in organizational strategy and help address control problems within the decentralized organization. They... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Where Are They Now?

of California, Berkeley, earlier that year. “Bob Anthony, the father of the management control systems field, was teaching at HBS, as were Dick Vancil, Bill Bruns, and John Dearden. These were the giants in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Web

Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

learn how and when to create core values and beliefs systems to prioritize the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders. Tracking performance goals: You will learn how to select a small number of critical performance variables and... View Details

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged financial View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

Henry S. Dennison

In 1916, Dennison Manufacturing established the first employer-initiated unemployment insurance system in the United States. Dennison also initiated a program to end absentee stockholder control over company... View Details

Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

01 Dec 2020
News

Tried and Tested

have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services

Willis H. Carrier

Carrier was a pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration. Perfecting an air cooling system, Carrier first introduced air conditioning to theaters in the 1930’s and later went on to develop elaborate, but affordable, air conditioning View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Dec 2009
News

Education Revolution

COMPTON: Making the case on film that America’s education system is falling short globally. “I don’t even talk about education reform any more, I talk about education revolution,” documentary filmmaker and venture capitalist Bob Compton... View Details

Keywords: charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2006
News

Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China

While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

distinguishes one computer from another. In reality, the operating system is more like a chief executive in that it allocates resources and establishes and controls workflow. In the simplest sense, it tells... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

School Case 117-107 Management Control Systems Module 7: Designing Asset Allocation Systems This module provides tools for acquiring and allocating resources. Analytic... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2003
News

Incentives and Operational Excellence

Operational problems can be the cause of an organization’s demise. Often they can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, according to HBS associate professor V.G. Narayanan, a specialist in measurement View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

definition of that for the layman? How long has the concept been around in marketing? Wathieu: The idea involves letting consumers take control of variables that are conventionally pre-determined by marketers: product characteristics,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2014
News

Seeing glass in a new light

buildings, dynamic glass dramatically increases flexibility in architectural design while reducing energy consumption. As CEO of View Dynamic Glass, Mulpuri has succeeded in taking this 50-year-old nanotechnology to market and is leading the intelligent View Details

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

Competition for the Supply of Control Systems By: Mikes, Anette Abstract—How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a... View Details