Diagnostic Control Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

Business School Case 117-111 Management Control Systems Module 11: Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2000
News

www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares... View Details

25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy By: Simons, Robert Abstract—This study focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

these systems, however, access to drugs, devices, or treatments is more limited than we enjoy in the United States. Australia’s system is more specific about linking diagnostics to therapies; the country... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

09 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

similar way, write the authors. "There is little dispute that we need a system that is competitive, responsive, and consumer-driven, with clear metrics of value per dollar spent." In the following excerpt, they outline three... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

01 Sep 2011
News

Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform

Related Links Read about other efforts in healthcare delivery Three HBS students spent much of the last academic year helping a leading Boston hospital answer one of the most important questions in health-care management: how to create a new payment View Details

Keywords: bundling; Health, Social Assistance

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

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

of (systemic) invention. The opportunity, therefore, is to start reinventing the future health care delivery system that will sustainably deliver prevention and sick care in a post-COVID world. Amy C. Edmondson (@AmyCEdmondson) is the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

the field of health care has evolved differently despite a decades-long scramble to control spending. HBS professor emeritus Bob Kaplan described the state of affairs in a 2011 interview with the Harvard Business Review: "When I encounter... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

in nine term sheets received from different lenders. With the proposals in-hand, he needed to decide which one was the most favorable. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-112 Management View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women, indoor residual spraying, rapid diagnostic tests, and artemisinin-based combination therapy. We discuss the timing and regional coverage of the program and critically review the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1998
News

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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

10 Apr 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details

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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

critical performance variables and design management control systems to track progress in achieving key goals. Controlling strategic risk: You will learn how to identify... View Details

14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

the larger field of organizational research. We test this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings reveal a continuum of open View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

16 Feb 2011
News

Healthy Growth

Ayers After gaining experience in strategy consulting, M&As, systems engineering, and running a multibillion-dollar refrigeration company, Jonathan Ayers (MBA ‘83) has come full circle to a job that relates to his Yale undergraduate major... View Details

Keywords: veterinary medicine; Health, Social Assistance

16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details