Trade-offs - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Apr 2021
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Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

30 Jul 2020
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Employees and employers both face trade-offs as offices reopen

20 Jul 2015
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The perils of building democracy in Africa

11 Jun 2015
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Capitalizing on America's New Energy Advantage

28 Dec 2018
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Answering a quick video call to help a blind person is ‘so awesome’

06 Sep 2016
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Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace

01 Sep 2023
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and Anne Morriss argue that this belief is deeply flawed and that it keeps you from building a great company. Helping executives and entrepreneurs solve their toughest problems over the past decade, Frei and Morriss learned that the View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived

first, LIFE Matrix (see below), offers insights about managing time, dealing with trade-offs between work and life, and how choices correlate with joy, meaningfulness, achievement, and life satisfaction. Another tool, currently being... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 2021
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Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face difficult View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

“What I hope to do is to help others. That is why I’m here. Through this funding support, HBS will help to make that come to fruition.” —David Velasquez ‘Would the Trade-Off Be Worth It?’ As a teenager, David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2022
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Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

every corner, especially once you start looking for them. Too often leaders get stuck in the balance between option A or B, trapped by the trade-offs inherent in either/or thinking. A both/and approach to problem-solving, by contrast, can... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Books

examine the ways in which software differs from other technologies in promoting economic development; what motivates individuals and firms to contribute to open source projects; how developers and users view the trade-offs between the two... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2015
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An Unconventional Suggestion

minimize the local environmental impact of extraction, and speed the transition to cleaner, lower-carbon energy. The report’s analysis found “no inherent trade-off between environmental protection and company profitability” and found that... View Details

Keywords: April White; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

03 Feb 2021
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Power Play

climate crisis. “We fundamentally believe that we don’t have to make a trade-off between having good investment returns and doing something that is good for the environment and sustainable,” notes Graziano. For Smith, SER partner and CFO,... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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