Information And Transformation Function - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

What's next for Web services? In his case summary "Will Web Services Really Transform Collaboration?" published in the Winter 2005 edition of MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee argues that the... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

managers put into practice in the late 1980s and 1990s. Most recently, we have tried to develop a holistic view of how performance measurement and control systems function in... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

evolved a strong sense of responsibility for the welfare of their societies as they continue to overcome past legacies of impoverishment. Three recently added interviews illuminate these themes of transformational change View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

know it's getting harder. We all need to keep learning and adapting.” We asked Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, to discuss how managers can work faster, embrace digital View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

analyze their own companies and how they create next-generation executives. And execs early in their work lives should use this information to think long View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

09 Jun 2015
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media

Tate's Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum What happens when the traditional museum-going experience meets the world of digital marketing? WORKING PAPERS Competing with Privacy Personal View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Advertising

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

developed over the past four decades that have transformed the nature of supply chains. These include "postponement" (delaying until the last possible moment the assembly of components or modules), computer-aided manufacture... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

changing, will Detroit adopt the stretch concept in the development of, say, 100-mile-per-gallon vehicles by 2012? There may be reasons why we will increasingly underestimate our capabilities, giving greater credence to stretch. We are learning more View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

for growth become a primary objective, pulling these firms away from their foundational north star: CEO and C-suite management consulting. In pursuing additional opportunities, consulting firms have widely diversified the industry breadth... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

process, who must stand watch, identify and weigh, decide and move, time and time again. The strategist is the one who must decline certain opportunities View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery

November 1999 (Revised April 2002)
Case

International Business Machines Corporation (B)

By: David F. Hawkins

IBM changes pension plan from a defined benefit plan to a cash-balance plan. Teaching purpose: To understand pension accounting. View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Transformation; Business Earnings; Private Sector; Personal Finance; Cash; Information Infrastructure; Taxation; Computer Industry; Accounting Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

environmental groups. Had Stone taken into account the history of strained relationships between Honduras and the U.S. government and multinationals, as well as the fragile status of the presidency in this... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

But what's more interesting—and this is a function of operating in an environment such as India where heart disease is endemic—it's a genetic trait among Indians, and also there are so many people, so there... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

wafer is mapped to indicate good regions and bad regions, and this information is then used in cutting the wafer into individual components. Development groups need to be... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

the entity and even then questions about who they report to, how they are appraised/evaluated, what powers and decision rights they have and how trust View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

which investors should have access in order to make informed investment decisions, it engaged in a public comment period, soliciting feedback from various stakeholders about the provisional standards it developed by sector. As such, it is... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

October 2010
Teaching Note

From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

Teaching Note for 610057. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Taxation; Information Technology; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Strategy; Acquisition; Technology Adoption; Supply Chain; Motorcycle Industry