Enterprise Resource Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 1994 (Revised April 1995)
Case

Visionary Design Systems: Are Incentives Enough?

By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler

A compensation case about Visionary Design Systems (VDS), a small, high-tech full service systems integration firm based in Silicon Valley with eleven offices throughout the country. All employees, including engineers, administrators, and receptionists, received a... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; San Francisco

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25 Apr 2014
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Taking up the issue of climate change

1988, we were thinking about bringing a child into the world and really became focused on the environment," recalls Horn. He subsequently joined the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council, "arguably the most effective... View Details

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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Twitter: Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education Faculty Accounts Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School Jobs MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge Harvard... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

technology giants, Intel and SAP. Pandesic was designed to create a more affordable version of SAP’s enterprise resource planning software, targeted at small and midsize... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

James R. Moffett

the discovery and exploration of natural resource deposits around the world, especially the Grasberg gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. As CEO, Moffett oversaw a massive growth plan for the combined entities and... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

Profile

Dave Vitello

section at the Social Enterprise Conference on “Empowering Displaced and Trafficked Persons.” Vera takes ballet class on campus, while Tess is enrolled in an HBS play group. They’re all involved in the Crimson Parents club for Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

operations." Fair enough. But how can that actually be accomplished? With the help of Bart Blackburn (HBS MBA '97) of SupplierInsight, Paul Deninger (HBS MBA '84) of Broadview, and Ted Fischer of SCB Enterprise Solutions, Upton set... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight

work with the foundation. It wasn’t just her diagnosis, though; it also was her parents’ commitment to giving back. Throughout Smyth’s childhood, Anne had volunteered with Plunket, an organization that provides health care resources and... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

times. Rigby ex-plains how to craft an action plan tailored to the specific situation, providing tools for cutting costs intelligently, sustaining margins and the brand, boosting revenue by refocusing the sales force on the right... View Details

26 Jan 2017
News

Finding a Path out of Poverty

insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and sticking to a budget. Helping... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Fast Answer

Urban development

Land from the Urban Land Institute. It focuses on the information needs of land use and development professionals worldwide. Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Urban Planning and Design Research Guide... View Details

02 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

use, rich, complex, and undocumented." They describe a failed plan to put tunnelers for the Big Dig in Boston in touch with counterparts in New Zealand who had developed new techniques for tunneling. The View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Nov 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Do People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay

Keywords: by Dylan Minor, Pablo Hernandez & Dana Sisak

March 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Teaching Note

ProPublica (TN)

By: Michel Anteby and Ryan Johnson

Teaching Note for #410-140. View Details

Keywords: Markets; Finance; Competency and Skills; Knowledge; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Journalism and News Industry

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Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

game-changer. Programs are developing that allow teachers to share lesson plans and streamline grading. On a district level, technology can help pair teachers and students. "Currently, nearly 80 percent of school funding is spent on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

conducted now is extremely broad. "There was a lot more than we had first realized," she reported. Nine HBS professors described the research they are conducting on Latin America as well as work they plan to do in the future.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Collection Areas | Baker Library

Collection Areas Contemporary Corporate Archives Company archival records are an essential component in fully understanding a corporation’s advance from fledgling entrepreneurial enterprise to industry giant. Baker Library’s growing... View Details

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason, business View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

September 2003 (Revised October 2005)
Case

Performance Pay for MGOA Physicians (A)

Examines the transition of an orthopedic surgical group at a premier teaching and research hospital from a system in which the surgeons are compensated with flat salaries to a system where they are compensated based on profitability. Allows for an examination of... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Motivation and Incentives; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Health Industry

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