Operating Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged financial controls than on... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

09 Jan 2014
News

Tapping into Opportunity

irrigation systems and techniques still used today. Unfortunately, water has also been the cause of many bloody wars in the region. In the US, conflict over water hasn't reached that intensity, but bitter legal and political disputes are... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Laying Down the Principles: Management A system of centralized management was born from the need to direct the flow of capital and run... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Case Study: The Speed of Light

(Photo courtesy of KDC Solar) Launched in 2011, QE solar is an operations and maintenance company focused on servicing large-scale, commercial solar energy structures—the kind typically owned by large utility companies. The company is... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

25 Apr 2014
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Tapping into more effective water technologies

demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply by 40 percent. "Few businesses are prepared for water scarcity and its impact upon operations and their supply chains," says Shenkar, adding that a small group of leaders is... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

again, no one apologizes for this-is that patients can't choose their caregivers. They will get a Mayo Clinic diagnosis, and they will get it quickly, but it may not be a diagnosis from a specific, renowned doctor X. The system has been... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

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Drone Policy | About

debate amongst the aviation community. The FAA, the US agency responsible for regulating the nation’s airspace, continues to refine their plans for safely integrating civil unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace. HBS View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

“The current health-care system generally is modular. Specialized companies operate hospitals, process paperwork, negotiate blanket service contracts, and manage outpatient and retail clinics. Most doctors’... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

24 Apr 2014
News

A bold experiment in education

A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep (NOCP). NOCP now operates... View Details

Roger Milliken

firm operated at least 60 mills in five states. He was also one of the first to establish computerized management information systems in the textile industry, and, in so doing, Milliken became the industry... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

processes. As we walked through this research with them, they could see the impact that middle level and operating managers have on the process, both on its implementation and on the ideas that arise. I think they realized that they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

April 1988 (Revised September 1989)
Case

Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (C)

Provides the rationale behind the design of the new cost system. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Production; Management Systems; Manufacturing Industry

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15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

Political System Harvard Business School Note 308-063 Offers a detailed overview of the structure and operation of the Chinese political system today. Key issues that are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had been unaffordable (which the Indian pharmaceutical firm Cipla... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

01 Jun 2000
News

Seeing the Light

spot in 1996. Today, sales at Kirlin are 300 percent higher than in 1986; the company, which designs and manufactures lighting systems for commercial, institutional, and custom residential construction, has created lighting for a full... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

investments in architectural design can facilitate a more flexible innovation process. They observed successful firms creating a modular system that could accommodate the addition of new components without affecting the core... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2011
News

Alumni Book Briefs

Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right by Dal LaMagna (MBA ’70) (Wiley) When LaMagna graduated from HBS, his entrepreneurial activities — including operating discos in drive-in theaters and working with the 1960s... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

September 2004 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Chardonnay Shortage at Mondavi Winery, The

Mondavi Winery is facing a shortage of its Chardonnay wine. This shortage will disrupt its positioning in wine outlets and impact earnings. Allows students to discuss how to communicate such temporary--but financially important--shocks to the capital markets and... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Earnings; Production; System Shocks; Capital Markets; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry