Production Controls - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

department stores will once again redefine themselves." David Overton, vice president and director of strategic planning and research for JC Penney, said, "Our biggest competitors are no longer the other department stores." Many of the chain's customers... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

2015
Working Paper

The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel

Government agencies are increasingly turning to private, third-party monitors to inspect and assess regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators.... View Details

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SSRN

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products, alongside the values in which they... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

Edgar M. Queeny

Queeny assumed control of his father John's company with just $12 million in assets, but under his leadership, Monsanto Chemical expanded into a leading chemical manufacturer. While Queeny was chairman, the company grew to have assets of... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

strategies. Consider Nestlé, a food company that reformulates its products in response to regional tastes for spices and sweets. In this "local value creation" configuration, the span of control... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

hair salons to real estate agencies have long organized themselves as associations of individuals, with the company itself exerting more or less control over the interaction between service provider and customer. Some hair salons employ... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

of reader e-mails, Jim Heskett wonders whether the term "servant leadership" is an oxymoron? Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing About 95 percent of new products fail. The problem often is that their creators are using an... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

has quality variations, reducing consumption. Five independent growers formed a cooperative to provide quality control and a brand name—Ripe 'N Ready—that enabled retailers to differentiate their stores and producers to differentiate the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2012 (Revised August 2012)
Case

Dirigo International

By: Christopher M. Gordon and Chad M. Carr

Dirigo International is proposing a major expansion of their life sciences research and manufacturing facilities in the heart of a major city and middle to lower income residential neighborhood. The company and city government are seeking a development solution in the... View Details

Keywords: Production; Property; Expansion; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; Outcome or Result; Biotechnology Industry

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Educators

Purchase

29 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Bloom Energy

Harvard Business School and what roles do you hire for? We are thrilled to have kicked off our relationship with Harvard Business School through the recruitment of 2 summer interns this year on our Marketing and Production View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

03 Nov 2020
News

One Paramount Priority

In the four years since the last US presidential election, Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) has been interviewing more than 500 voters, talking about everything from gun control to COVID-19. This years-long project has made clear to Hessan that... View Details

Keywords: Government

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

bill, an increasing number of young Greeks are leaving the country causing perhaps the most damaging effect of them all, brain drain. One of the most robust academic evidence is that an economy where the means of production are View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

John H. Pew

John Pew, along with his younger brother Joseph Jr., took control of their father's company in 1912. The Pew brothers grew it from a small firm, with just a 0.9% share of the overall industrial production of... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

01 Jan 2007
News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

responds in the negative. "I knew I would be with Synthes for a certain amount of time, because I had some equity in the company and saw there was huge potential for our products in the United States—if we could survive the first five... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge

receive free access to their data and control how it is shared. The Why: Patient data is often fragmented across electronic medical record systems, providers, and categories. But recent changes to the laws governing medical records have... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; data; technology; Blavatnik Fellowship

01 Mar 2024
News

The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown

Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

taxpayers receive a deterrence message. Comparing their subsequent tax payments to a control group allows estimating what types of taxpayers are more likely to respond to an increase in perceived audit probability. This information can be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in... View Details