Diagnostic Control Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

choose one. But if I have to choose one, I would say I enjoyed the case on Nissan Motor, the auto manufacturer that had been turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

to the information necessary to make important choices, both the ERP and CAD systems would increase the likelihood that plant managers and production workers would make decisions and act on them without having to consult an executive at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

What should business people in particular know about the pros and cons of attempts to treat and control diabetes—or indeed other chronic diseases? That was the focus of a lively case-study discussion among some fifty participants led by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

31 Oct 2014
Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

First of all, many more Americans will die of heart attacks than will ever die of Ebola. This is not like smallpox, whose spread can only be controlled with great difficulty. The nature of the disease is that, because it can only pass... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

role of leaders for centuries. Plato, writing his Republic in the fourth century B.C., argued that the ideal city would have an elaborate system to choose its leaders that made any individual leader replaceable. Thucydides, writing just a... View Details

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54036 August 23, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost By: French, Katy, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

will drive its adoption of Web services: the movement from proprietary to more commonly used technologies; a shift from mechanical systems to those driven by computer connections; and the development of cars that are always "on the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

01 Apr 1997
News

Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it's now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition," says Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, who teaches in the School's Management Information View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

superior product, adding to the probability of success. However, OSS has disadvantages too. Most importantly, it comes from behind in terms of market share (installed base). Because the value of an operating system depends critically on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Oct 2014
News

The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)

if you are in control of the information you share.” What have been the best and most challenging parts of launching your company? “The most challenging and best parts are the same—building a company is hard, so the learning curve is... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

25 Feb 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

for true disruption, this book outlines what consumers can do themselves and demand from doctors, hospitals, health plans, and policymakers to get more for their health care spending and, in so doing, reshape the health care system into... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in old-line, inefficiently managed... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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