Production Controls - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India

targets, aiming to reach 500 GW of renewable energy production by 2030. However, even with those impressive goals, coal still supplies about 70% of the country’s energy needs.4 The tension is clear: India needs to decarbonize for the sake... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

not been as successful as originally envisioned, companies may be reluctant to allow research to be published at this time. To address this concern, we need to raise awareness of our research controls for confidentiality and our... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2013
News

Batteries and Chocolates

the gender biases of those who control them, then historically male places will tend to be harder on women and to promote only those women who essentially behave "like men." Conversely, once an organization becomes dominated by women, the... View Details

Keywords: Spar, Debora; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

whether review times or product novelty predicted adverse event reporting. Longer review times were associated with a lower probability of any subsequent reports and a lower probability of reports involving injury/death. View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2009
News

Alumni Books

tsunami of credit problems isn’t over, for the second wave has yet to come. They break down the complex mortgage products and securities that Wall Street created and show how to find investment opportunities within the rubble and position... View Details

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results are explicated by a framework I develop for understanding the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

they would not try to be all things to everyone. In most businesses, it is common sense to develop products and services that create unique value. For many hospitals, developing uniqueness is a significant change in mind-set and deciding... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

for companies to explain their rationale for the limitations they place on computer usage. Control access to your systems. You don't allow just anyone off the street to wander in and use your company's fax machines or sit in on a strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

expanding involvement of households—both as savers and as borrowers—has had an enormous effect on the range of products and services offered. Important changes taking place at all of these levels—in household economic planning, in the... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53587 The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity By: Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

product (MVP) one could imagine, and I’m very grateful for the advice. Our extensive MVP testing at corporate offices allowed us to validate key assumptions of our business model and value proposition, e.g. more than 70% of our users... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Mar 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider

native knew an icon—and a challenge—when he saw one. In 2009 he stepped into the role of managing director, Harley-Davidson India. Entering the Indian market had plenty of challenges related to tariffs, accessibility, and brand perception, and also required a focus on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 1998
News

Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

CEO Aaron Feurstein of Malden Mills On a bitter-cold December night in 1995, a devastating fire—driven out of control by gale-force winds—raged through the factory complex of Malden Mills, a privately held maker of fabrics (including the... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

that they're going to be replaced. Typically, early in the life of a company—when it is developing its first product or service—the founder who conceived of the idea and began developing it is the perfect person to lead the company, to... View Details

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

diverge from the typical nine-to-five. Contrary to some expectations—but consistent with years of research—that flexibility has actually spurred worker productivity to improve. In polls that Neeley has taken at companies in a variety of... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as... View Details