Multiple Control Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

industry), and they were at the mercy of the Germans." What Managers Can Do In a previous paper—The (Un)Hidden Turmoil of Language in Global Collaboration—the same authors outline steps managers can take to control the damage of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
Case

Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

By: Julio Rotemberg

This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S. from August to December 2006 as well as their roots in subprime lending. After briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Central Banking; Financial Markets; Mortgages; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; United States

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Purchase

14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

varieties, we show that there is no pure strategy symmetric price equilibrium in general (for n > 2 with linear transportation costs). In turn, if the limitation on the number of varieties consumers purchase comes from a budget constraint, then we obtain a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

associated with stress. To control for differences in cortisol production, all the women participated in the stress test during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycles, which is the phase when cortisol stress response is the strongest.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

entrepreneurs saw the outlines of competition in their respective industries before other players and could thus act quickly to create and control what became the standards of rivalry in each young market.) The economic spoils of this... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

devoted to satisfy our needs—coffee, cigarettes, Facebook, etc.—can increase productivity.” Results and implications The researchers crunched the data to show the difference in average tests scores for tests taken between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. They View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

respect. The cast of influential and colorful characters includes Madam C.J. Walker, the daughter of former slaves in Louisiana who developed a system for straightening African-American hair, which was so successful that she ranks as... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

2011
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The Economics of Housing Finance Reform

By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam

This paper analyzes the two leading types of proposals for reform of the housing finance system: (i) broad-based, explicit, priced government guarantees of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and (ii) privatization. Both proposals have drawbacks. Properly-priced... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Housing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics

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17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

true in the corporate world, the researchers looked at preexisting field data at a midsize bank in Tokyo. The bank had tracked employee productivity for two-and-a-half years following the launch of a new mortgage-processing system in June... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Hamilton Hall | About

residential facility. As renovated, Hamilton has 72 rooms with private baths, 6 full-service kitchens, well-appointed conference rooms, and a large lounge. During the project, 97 percent of construction waste was reused or recycled, and View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

P. Norton aims to make strategy a continual process. The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage shows managers how to weave organizational principles into a more effective management system that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution, corporate reporting, and the role of investors in this new paradigm. Initiatives & Projects The... View Details

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Git and GitHub - Research Computing Services

Software Tools Git & Github 24ms What version control systems are available to you? There are many different version control systems available,... View Details

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

values/value systems , ethics , moral leadership Interviews Ian Fuhr Robert Brozin Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow Research Interests : bank debt ,... View Details

10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal conflict in South Asian countries,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2023
What Do You Think?

Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

system ministering to a student body with similarly high hopes for achievement. According to Aarons-Mele, anxious achievers have many qualities valued in the business world. As she puts it, they “are great at forward planning, attuned and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the platform, rather than a scenario where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are more involved in "obligatory" and value creating and control functions than in operational activities; there are no systematic differences in the determinants... View Details