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- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
virtues of vertical integration with the flexibility of sourcing. Such arrangements are increasingly discussed in the operations literature and in practice. This case provides students an opportunity to do an in-depth analysis of such an arrangement and develop an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
from the inquiry that you get" and getting to the "right" answer faster. The speakers noted there is a trade-off in further personalizing searches: Users have to be willing to share some personal information, even if it is... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
Williams, who struggles with the challenge of steering his second startup, Odeo, without having board support for his decisions. Achieving The Entrepreneurial Ideal "Each of these entrepreneurs has had to give up something that really matters to them—a View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
unusual organizational design. Examination of the different organizational designs, trade-offs associated with each organizational architecture as well as the accompanying implementation problems. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
performance. So, they're at odds. Q: Is there a trade-off between the costs of learning vs. the benefits of improved performance? A: For the most part, I think it's a false tradeoff. Not learning is an option, of course, but it's not a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
both things—there are trade-offs that we didn't expect," says Teixeira. "You need to understand what you want the consumer to do." If advertisers are primarily selling in brick-and-mortar locations with traditional... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
contingent ways that a corporate risk function can foster highly interactive and intrusive dialogues to surface and prioritize risks, help to allocate resources to mitigate them, and bring clarity to the value trade-offs and moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
when they are all working toward the same organizational mission. “It is especially important to create and maintain such spaces of negotiation when it comes to managing trade-offs between social and commercial activities,” Battilana... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
trade-offs of continuing as a non-profit versus converting to a for-profit entity. Students will gain skills relevant to growing an organization that is mission-driven but financially constrained, and that has a complex array of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and profit maximizing, yet asymmetric, payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 show that people... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
Mobilization By: Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri Abstract—Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
morning meetings. Business was first, but the families were all there as well. Saturdays were business and family affairs. Q: Why has governance evolved that way among some of these firms? A: It is smart management in good part. They see the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
benefits to companies: Greater clarity about the relationship between financial and nonfinancial key performance indicators. This will help managers understand and confront the trade-offs necessary to balance financial and societal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
role of financial intermediaries. In the private equity setting, institutional investors are increasingly eschewing intermediaries in favor of direct investments. To understand the trade-offs in this setting, we compile a proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
network will help you identify and assess the consequences of a planned action or decision. It will help you negotiate the trade-offs among stakeholders. And it will help you deal with the dark side of political environments, such as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
trade-offs between effectiveness and efficiency associated with the use of bots versus humans to create, nurture, and manage customer relationships. Second, they had to decide to what extent to anthropomorphize the chatbots. How... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
company officers, and even play interactive games showing the challenges and trade-offs the company faces in making difficult decisions. Thanks to these kinds of One Report practices, these companies actually document their commitment to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff