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- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
Both of these factors change as the venture grows. As more people are hired and the founder begins sharing control with non-founders, and as the venture develops and formalizes systems and processes that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
of pharmaceuticals and medical devices work in a more coordinated way? —Rebecca Leung (MBA 1996) HASSAN: Smaller, highly advanced countries with long-term industrial strategies, such as Singapore, have a relatively well-coordinated system... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
through most commercial disputes. Present-day Russia has practically no functioning judiciary. Many countries' legal systems are corrupt or controlled by local political powers. The fact is, there can be a... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
WorldCom or Adelphia. The failures at those companies were more likely caused by a combination of fraud committed by individuals, inadequate control and governance systems that tolerated clear conflicts of... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
500 are incorporated) have made it clear that maximizing shareholder return is required only when the breakup of the corporation has become inevitable or there is a change of control. For this purpose, a merger of two publicly held firms will not result in a change in... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- Web
IT Strategy: HBS IT Website Provides Easier Access to News and Support | Information Technology
expertise from Marketing and Communications as part of the work being done to refresh all HBS websites through the Web Content Management System Program. The new platform brings standardization, consistency, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
engineers devoted a good chunk of 2015 and most of 2016 to developing a drone that could be piloted in real time through a complex, three-dimensional course of gates and obstacles. That meant creating a lightning-fast radio system and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
Yeo, "is developing human capital, because the country is so small and resource-scarce." A scholarship student at the University of Toronto, Yeo received a degree in industrial engineering in 1970 and then returned home where he earned a master's in View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
consolidation. During the period 1897Ð1904 alone, 4,227 American companies were merged into 257 combinations, sometimes forcibly. By 1904, some 318 large firms were alleged to control about 40 percent of the entire nation's manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness constraints from a broad class of allowable constraints. The method then designs a point View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the three procedures at the two different sites using the hospital's existing cost system and a proposed new system based on time-driven activity-based costing. Hoag Orthopedic Institute Harvard Business... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
however, as interesting as the phenomenon described by Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano in their book, Platform Leadership. They include: Did platform leaders set out to create vehicles by which they might control the direction and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Japan. "Wireless Internet is a reality in Japan," he said, speculating that broadband, digital content, and semiconductors will all be controlled by Japan by 2005. Vogel commented that finance and retail were also promising new... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
single-payer system. Few national politicians are working to uncover why the public exchanges aren’t working for either insurers or consumers. While it’s difficult, the question everyone should be working to answer is: How can the system... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Business School Case 110-087 Continental Media Group has a series of business reviews struggling to achieve profitability. This case focuses on the use of management control systems to identify emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
companies gain flexibility in the range of projects they may undertake. "Hiring outside contractors is a way for managers to access the talent they need to get the work done," says Bradach. Independent contractors reported a greater sense of accomplishment, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
his partners began reviewing the company's inventions. The first opportunity they uncovered was Advanced Workstation Products (AWP). Xerox's high-end printers actually were complex computer systems that contained extensive networking... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough