Publications

March 2018
Supplement

China Vanke: Battle for Control (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau and Anthony K. Woo

China Resources expresses disagreement over the validity of the results of the board vote as announced by China Vanke. It further raises objections to Vanke's handling of the announcement as well as reiterates its doubts about the strategic rationale of the proposed... View Details

Keywords: China Vanke; China Resources; Hostile Takeover; Board Of Directors; Shareholding Structure; Shareholder Rights; Asset Restructuring; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Real Estate Industry; China

February 1989
Case

Reorder Point Based Inventory Control Systems

By: Janice H. Hammond

Keywords: Logistics; Management

August 2002
Article

Consumer Control and Empowerment: A Primer

By: Luc Wathieu, Lyle Brenner, Ziv Carmon, Amitava Chattopadhyay, Aimee Drolet, John T. Gourville, A.V. Muthukrishnan, Nathan Novemsky, Rebecca Ratner, Klaus Wertenbroch and George Wu

2012
Other Unpublished Work

Managerial Control of Business Press Coverage

By: Eugene F. Soltes and David H. Solomon

The business press plays a significant role in distributing firm news to investors. We investigate the extent to which managers can influence their firm's level of coverage in newswires and newspapers. We consider three choices under managerial control: press release... View Details

Keywords: Announcements; Governance Controls; News; Communication Strategy; Journalism and News Industry

SSRN

March 2018 (Revised January 2021)
Case

China Vanke: Battle for Control (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau and Anthony K. Woo

In June 2016, the board of China Vanke, one of China’s largest and best-known private residential real estate developers, must vote on a proposed acquisition that is opposed by its largest shareholders, state-owned China Resources Co. and the lesser-known property... View Details

Keywords: China Vanke; China Resources; Hostile Takeover; Board Of Directors; Shareholding Structure; Shareholder Rights; Asset Restructuring; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Real Estate Industry; China

Educators

March 2015
Teaching Note

Infection Control at Massachusetts General Hospital

By: Robert S. Huckman and Nikolaos Trichakis

June 2006
Teaching Note

Process Control at Polaroid (A) (TN)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Steven C. Wheelwright

Teaching Note to 693047. View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

November–December 1983
Article

Control with Fairness in Transfer Pricing

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Keywords: Fairness; Price

spring 1991
Article

New Systems for Measurement and Control

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: System; Measurement and Metrics

August 1988
Article

Control vs. Resources in Channel Design

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Design

May 1987 (Revised May 1989)
Case

Westinghouse Electric Corp. (B): Control House

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Electronics Industry

06 Jun 2002
Conference Presentation

The Seduction of Command and Control

By: Scott A. Snook

Keywords: Power and Influence

Research Summary

Information and Control in Modern Manufacturing

Ratna Sarkar's research in management accounting focuses on the effect of information and incentives on performance. She has investigated the role of worker empowerment, training and inventory in modern manufacturing settings and her findings suggest that these... View Details

2016
Working Paper

Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix

By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright

Section 1 of this online appendix contains the proof of the technical Lemma (Lemma 2) used in the Proof of Lemma 1 in the main paper, which states that Ω* (.) is continuous and differentiable at R*. Section 2 provides the linear example with cost differences between... View Details