Operational Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Background Note

The Hybrid Vehicle Market

By: Michael W. Toffel and Nazli Z. Uludere Aragon

This note describes the hybrid electic vehicle market, the results of different automaker strategies, and the environmental regulatory issues that can promote or inhibit market growth in the United States. Introduces students to the technologies and regulatory aspects... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Product Development; Information Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States

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01 Dec 2013
News

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control and involvement and argue that its impact on business performance will be positive. They offer a road map to help CEOs and directors better balance board oversight with the firm's daily operations... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Professional Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Portrait Project

Austin Dirks

doctor's hands worked back and forth in the rhythm and grace of a painter. I could feel my breath beat back against my mask, into my face. My scrub cap began to stick to my forehead with perspiration. Something was wrong. And I was alone. The pacemaker, a device able... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Ideas: Books

establishing brand identity, identifying the organizational mission, communicating the meaning of the brand, and leveraging brand values. Organizing Control August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management by Jeffrey R.... View Details

Keywords: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chandler

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

Experiment 2 demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 3 indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

months. If normal operations were to resume within one month, 72 percent reported a high likelihood of staying in business. “Fifty percent of respondents believe that the crisis will last at least until the middle of June,” the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

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1.6 Degree Requirements | MBA

Control (FRC) Data Science and AI for Leaders (DSAIL) 1.5 credits Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) Marketing (MKT) FIELD Global Capstone (CAP) Strategy (STRAT) Finance 2 (FIN2) Technology and... View Details

Profile

Omowale Casselle

expectations of our consumers, retailers, and brand partners." "In addition to managing our product lines, I also lead our operations team, which means that I make sure that each retail partner (Walmart, Walgreens, Kroger, and... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

has become more concentrated in recent years, with most of it now controlled by just 1,000 companies. That allows economies of scale and scope and very high returns of capital, all of which give those companies tremendous power. With that... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

in index funds while $310 billion exited actively managed funds. But have they become too popular? Researchers and analysts are increasingly concerned that managers in companies with a large number of passive fund investors can too easily View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

of several South American nations. Its operations in numerous energy-related industries have done much to improve the economic infrastructure of that continent's emerging countries. On the other hand, the close connections of some groups... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

07 Mar 2019
News

Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands

accomplish that was to create their own distribution network. Therefore, we are able to control how the brand should look like, how the brand should be able to be established in the marketplace, and how that brand could revolutionize... View Details

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

this way: "When the world is full of surprises bosses can hardly control drastic actions to keep surviving and that means employees will get their share of surprises However a good leader will always communicate all possible outcomes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

activities can be located inside a firm or across firm boundaries. In the latter case, activities may involve customers, suppliers, partners, or other stakeholders. Accompanying the physical value chain is a related information value chain through which involved... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic risks and illuminates possible... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

15 Sep 2020
News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “We have been very successful at finding people of color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning

deliver programming by then newly launched HBX (now called Harvard Business School Online). Fast forward six years and online learning—and the need for it—has evolved significantly, leading the School to expand and move the operation onto... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Richard Edelman

Chicago community, Edelman finds it natural to give back to society. A Civil War buff, he is an active board member of the New-York Historical Society. His interest in fitness and fighting obesity attracted him to the board of the Centers for Disease View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806086 Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce Harvard Business School Case 505-016 BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views of BP and the industry as part... View Details