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- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Take Control of Your Onboarding
- April 1984
- Background Note
Export Controls
By: David B. Yoffie
Explores the problems and opportunities associated with export controls--one of the most widely used tools of international trade policy in the 1970s and early 1980s; and the role of the United States and Soviet Union as major players in the international economy....
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Keywords:
Macroeconomics;
Trade;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Problems and Challenges;
Opportunities;
Soviet Union;
United States
Yoffie, David B. "Export Controls." Harvard Business School Background Note 384-008, April 1984.
- 21 Jul 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Enabling Versus Controlling
Keywords:
by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright
- November, 2021
- Article
Self Control and Smartphone Use: An Experimental Study of Soft Commitment Devices
By: Ruru Hoong
Public discussion and discourse amongst researchers suggest that smartphone use is excessive from an individual welfare standpoint, but evidence for this remains limited. I implement a randomized intervention encouraging a subset of 629 participants to adopt soft...
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Keywords:
Social Media;
Commitment;
Randomized Controlled Trial;
Smartphones;
Addiction;
Technological Change: Choices And Consequences;
Behavior;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Well-being
Hoong, Ruru. "Self Control and Smartphone Use: An Experimental Study of Soft Commitment Devices." Special Issue on Nudges and Incentives. European Economic Review 140 (November, 2021).
- 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- Other Unpublished Work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...
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Keywords:
Announcements;
Governance Controls;
News;
Communication Strategy;
Journalism and News Industry
Soltes, Eugene F., and David H. Solomon. "Managerial Control of Business Press Coverage." October 2012.
- January 2007
- Article
Introducing the First Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Retail Sector
By: Tatiana Sandino
Focusing on a sample of US retailers, I study the management control systems (MCS) that firms introduce when they first invest in controls, and identify four categories of initial MCS, which are defined in terms of the purposes these MCS fulfill. The first category,...
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Keywords:
Management Control Systems;
Entrepreneurial Organizations;
Firm Growth;
Corporate Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Management Systems;
Growth and Development Strategy
Sandino, Tatiana. "Introducing the First Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Retail Sector." Accounting Review 82, no. 1 (January 2007): 265–293. (Awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2005, Management Accounting Section, American Accounting Association;
Awarded the Emerging Scholar Competitive Manuscript Award, 2011, Foundation for Applied Research, Institute of Management Accountants.)
- 26 Mar 2019
- News
Rent Control
- July 2004
- Article
Determinants of Control System Design in Divisionalized Firms
By: Margaret A. Abernethy, Jan Bouwens and Laurence van Lent
We investigate two determinants of two choices in the control system of divisionalized firms, namely decentralization and use of performance measures. The two determinants are those identified in the literature as important to control system design: (1) information...
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Keywords:
Design;
Organizational Design;
Business Divisions;
Management Systems;
Performance Evaluation
Abernethy, Margaret A., Jan Bouwens, and Laurence van Lent. "Determinants of Control System Design in Divisionalized Firms." Accounting Review 79, no. 3 (July 2004): 545–570.
- July–August 1977
- Article
Controlling the Costs of Data Services
By: R. L. Nolan
Nolan, R. L. "Controlling the Costs of Data Services." Harvard Business Review 55, no. 4 (July–August 1977).
- October 1996 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
United Electric Controls
By: H. Kent Bowen, Jody H. Gittell and Sylvie Ryckebusch
United Electric Controls (UE) was a small, traditional family-owned manufacturing company when Dave Reis, the youngest member of the Reis family, took over the business. This case describes Reis's efforts to change UE's traditional work practices in order to make the...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Family Business;
Production;
Business Strategy;
Human Resources;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Decisions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology;
Electronics Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Bowen, H. Kent, Jody H. Gittell, and Sylvie Ryckebusch. "United Electric Controls." Harvard Business School Case 697-006, October 1996. (Revised December 1996.)
- 06 Jun 2002
- Conference Presentation
The Seduction of Command and Control
By: Scott A. Snook
Keywords:
Power and Influence
- 2008
- Other Unpublished Work
Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle
By: Anette Mikes
Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any...
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Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation
(with Karim Lakhani and H. Lifshitz-Assaf), 2013, in A. Grandori (ed), Handbook of Economic Organization: Integrating Economic and Organizational Theory. Northhampton, Ma. Edward Elgar Publishing, 355-382.
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- February 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Background Note
Note on Measuring Controlling Shareholder's Ownership, Voting, and Control Rights
Founders and their families can raise equity without relinquishing control of their companies through the use of mechanisms such as dual-class stock, pyramidal ownership, voting agreements, and disproportionate board representation. The use of these mechanisms in...
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Keywords:
Equity;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Measurement and Metrics;
Ownership Stake;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Valuation
Villalonga, Belen. "Note on Measuring Controlling Shareholder's Ownership, Voting, and Control Rights." Harvard Business School Background Note 209-109, February 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- fall 1975
- Article
Analysis and Control of Nurse Staffing
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords:
Health Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Analysis and Control of Nurse Staffing." Health Services Research 10 (fall 1975): 278–296.
- Article
Control in an Age of Empowerment
By: R. Simons
Simons, R. "Control in an Age of Empowerment." Harvard Business Review 73, no. 2 (March–April 1995): 8–88.
- Research Summary
Corporate Control and Valuation
Richard S. Ruback's research and course development focus on applied corporate finance-in particular, corporate control transactions and valuation. His research on corporate control has yielded case studies on major transactions, such as the View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination
By: Sara Bormann, Jan Bouwens and Christian Hofmann
This study examines how control elements of a firm affect coordination among profit centers. The firm operates a network of 59 profit centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination....
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Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann. "The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-092, March 2014.
- Research Summary
When Should Control Be Shared?
The right to participate in control is one of the primary instruments for protecting
stakeholder interests in a firm. A basic question is how control should be allocated
across a firm's various stakeholders, including investors, employees, customers, and
suppliers....
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- 1999
- Book Review
Review of Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
By: Jan W. Rivkin
Rivkin, Jan W. "Review of Out of Control by Kevin Kelly." Emergence 1 (1999): 179–182.