balance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

using reunion committees and mailings, the Bulletin, and the Web to get the word out. Other potential programs might focus on work/life balance and career management. In light of limited faculty resources, the committee encouraged the... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

16 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

departments and have the opportunity to work on very challenging problems, every day. Lastly, I find that we strike a good balance between being scrappy where needed, while using best practices and consulting experts in other areas.... View Details

22 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

past, the work of PSFs was a gentleman's game—and now it's blood sport." Adding to the problem is the fact that many current leaders are overwhelmed trying to balance their dual roles of producer and manager. What's needed, DeLong... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

be justified as the monetization of valuable information assets that accountants have never seen fit to include as legitimate entries on balance sheets (other than as grossly misnamed "goodwill"). But wait a minute. Is there a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are generated that include balance sheets, customer beer preferences, and ways in which the... View Details

Career Coach

Philippe Taieb

Philippe (HBS '99) has been a Coach at HBS since 2006. He has been fortunate to work with scores of MBA Students and Alumni having a wide array of backgrounds (e.g. Investment Management, Consulting, Entrepreneurship, General Management, Healthcare, Private Equity,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Manufacturing; Social Enterprise; Sports; Clean Technology; Energy

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

size of advertising outlays increase but increase as advertising intensity and technological intensity increase, and is greater for "creative" industries. Read the article: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/roms.2012.10.issue-1/1546-5616.1142/1546-5616.1142.xml... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018

strategic use of debt financed through the University, as appropriate. The HBS balance sheet historically has been only modestly leveraged, and debt leverage remained low in fiscal 2018. The School’s total capital expenses increased to... View Details

Web

Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019

appropriate. The HBS balance sheet historically has been only modestly leveraged, and debt leverage remained low in fiscal 2019. Klarman Hall—the School’s most recent large construction project—was substantially completed in fiscal 2018.... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Meal Plan

positive picture, I’m afraid. Michael Kaufman: In 2019 the industry had 15.3 million employees; the forecast for 2020 was 15.6 million. I don’t know that we’ll see those levels in the future—as of early May, 8 million of those jobs have been lost. I do think the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

with unique (but are they mitigating?) personal circumstances. The third vignette puts students in the role of an employee conducting a bottom-up review, as he struggles to balance honesty with the potential repercussions of giving his... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

purpose of management. There are two deeply divided schools of thought. One school argues that management's aim should simply be to maximize shareholder wealth; the other argues that management's purpose is to balance the claims of all... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

that attract consumers to retailers’ websites. Companies typically have to balance the popularity of these policies in a competitive market with the high costs of managing returns, including shipping and restocking fees that cut into... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

preceded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by more than a decade. Today, the company routinely garners plaudits for its worklife balance and workforce diversity programs. One extraordinary IBM initiative that is both worker- and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2012
News

Rival Visions

long-term business confidence, setting the stage for the release of immense economic energy. His programs had helped to shape the distinctive American balance between political stability on the one hand and capacity for economic growth on... View Details

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

the firm. She was thus familiar with its culture and practices. To ensure broad perspective, two "outsider" researchers—Ramarajan and McGinn—conducted the detailed coding of the inside data. "Our insider-outsider authorship provided a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

of five doctors believed that DTCA did not provide information in a balanced manner, and a similar proportion felt that it encouraged patients to seek treatments they did not need. Physicians as a group were more equivocal about other... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

Summer 2014
Article

When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Halaburda

We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there... View Details