Time And Cost Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2016
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Turkasset: Bringing Customer-Centricity to Debt Collection

By: Dennis Campbell and Gamze Yucaoglu

In December 2014, in preparation for the year-end board presentation, Hilmi Guvenal (PMD 1993), shareholder and CEO of Turkasset, and Ilker Yoney, COO, sat down to discuss Turkasset’s five- and ten-year strategic plans. Since taking leadership of the company in 2009,... View Details

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Educators

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

that CEOs take home versus average employee pay is taking on added importance in 2018, as public companies in the United States are mandated for the first time to disclose pay ratios between the CEO and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

time when many bemoan the lack of skilled workers. ASD is an umbrella term for several cognitive impairments, including Asperger syndrome. The United States Centers for Disease Control estimates one in 68... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

forthcoming American Political Science Review Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

Your new boss will have more impact than anyone else over whether you succeed or fail. Your boss establishes benchmarks for your success, interprets your actions for other key players, and controls resources... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

29 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

tipping lead to bribing. Torfason and his colleagues found a link between these two behaviors when they studied cross-national data for 32 countries and controlled for per... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

designed as modular systems. Finally, it analyzes in detail the strategy of capturing value by maintaining exclusive control of an essential module in an open system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-040.pdf... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jun 2013
News

How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

resources beyond his current control to pull the project together. He successfully raced to get TV Guide's TV Game distributed to both high-end and discount retailers (priced accordingly) in View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

reluctance has hit Black Americans particularly hard since they have seen historically higher arrest rates, often fueled by racial discrimination, research shows. But it might be a good time to rethink those hiring practices View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

06 Feb 2019
Blog Post

7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion

hours—ranging from designing a Bluetooth-enabled remote control for a motor to constructing a wooden beer case. For many of us, those first two days were an opportunity to dust off some old skills we hadn’t put to work since we left our... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Telkes must assess the financial merits of the project, as well as understand the regulatory and technological risks associated with going forward or choosing to delay. Financial Reporting and View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

Demand: Foundations Strategies for Assessing and Increasing Demand Suppliers and Cost Markets Competition and Differentiation Featured Exercises... View Details

27 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

of America did in the sexual abuse scandals that cost them billions in legal settlements. For a business example, look at Boeing and the crashes of two 737 MAX aircraft that killed 346 people—a topic covered... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

26 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

Counter Intelligence

When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

handheld controller. Scientific researchers soon realized the potential for the knowledge embedded in the technology in a whole range of applications, and quickly wrote their own software code to use it. “It took the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

in the cost management and management control areas. He has published his research on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based competition, new product... View Details

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

widespread and so toxic in Enron." Salter, a specialist in corporate strategy and corporate governance who is also writing a book on Enron, said he is trying to operate as a sort of forensic analyst.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Frequently Asked Questions - Crossover Into Business

athlete. How much does it cost to participate in the program? The Crossover Into Business program is currently free for professional athletes – we do not charge any application or program fees. I am a professional athlete. Will Harvard... View Details

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