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Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog
after a near failure Avoiding ethical lapses as startups struggle Tactical steps for managing a venture’s shutdown to preserve relationships, reputations, and integrity How to learn from a venture’s failure and what to do with those learnings Addressing founder burnout...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
tradeoffs between product quality, cost, and time to market. They also need to formulate a viable business model and build an organization that can deliver value. This takes training in both design methods and in business fundamentals. ...
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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
Every business leader faces difficult tradeoffs when working to make a company both profitable and purposeful. But leaders who articulate a company’s deep purpose can tap into that broader vision to help them navigate short-term decisions...
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by Ranjay Gulati
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
their needs, and on terms they were prepared to negotiate.” 8 Retailers continually struggled with the tradeoffs between extending credit and increasing risk of nonpayment, and tightening credit and seeing business decline. The ingenuity...
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- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
military casualties? If it releases what is construed by the public as sanitized data, will citizens view the site cynically? Customer needs: As business people, some class participants wanted to see a clearly outlined customer perspective defining customer needs....
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- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
some way—there's no substitute for real contact with the whole organization. Finally, specify simple exit provisions at the onset and then don't be afraid to walk and go it alone. I think understanding and then incorporating risk-return View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
advertising agency industry: What accounts for the shift from bundling to unbundling of services and the slow pace of change? Using Evans and Salinger's (2005, 2008) cost-based theory of bundling, we develop a simple model of an agency's decision to unbundle as a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
possible that it was not a major impediment to overall technological progress, given the pace of innovation at the time.” “There should be further research to determine whether that’s a serious cost or not,” he continues. “What it does show is that there’s a View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
studies to check on shifts in price elasticities of demand and price-attribute tradeoffs can usefully improve the profitability of pricing decisions at a time when cash is king. Keep an eye on the new consumer. No one has a perfect record...
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by John Quelch
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community
of course, classes such as The Entrepreneurial Manager, Founder’s Journey, and Venture Capital & Private Equity helped me understand not only business decisions, but also the personal life and tradeoffs that come with the journey. Our...
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- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
study participant. "There's a [perception] that there's a tradeoff between serving the needs of the organizations and doing rigorous research," Beshears said. "But the organization you're working with doesn't know the answer, either. You...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
to corn prices, but at the expense of exposure to the oil market." Risky Bet On Oil With oil prices currently at record levels, that doesn't seem like such a bad tradeoff to make. But Reinhardt points out that we've seen this story...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
such a bad tradeoff to make. But Reinhardt points out that we’ve seen this story before. “In the 1970s, we said that prices would never go down again, and they did,” he remarks. “Will demand from India and China change the equation?...
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War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog
environment or shifting strategic landscape-and develop an appreciation for the humility required to challenge and refine our beliefs, theories, and models. Identify and grapple with inescapable tensions and tradeoffs in strategic...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
we fail to recognize that people consider many factors and make complex tradeoffs before making a decision. “Clinton voters didn’t consider that some Trump supporters actually may have voted for him in spite of—rather than because of—his...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
tradeoffs implying deprivation or loss. Women struggle just as men do, she said, in figuring out what they want to create and what their platinum standards are. "We have as much of a struggle, in fact, as men do. We are really in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
reinforces his conviction that there needn’t be a compromise in finding an intersection between business and social impact. “We too often accept a false tradeoff that in order to do well in the world, whether environmental, socially, or...
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Patrick Chun
series that require serious tradeoffs between budgets, audiences, and mindshare. For me, it's led to interesting questions about how to think about who you are serving, and how to take feedback, namely when to give in and when to hold a...
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- 06 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)
comparatively little to offer in return. While I wish I had considered this tradeoff more fully, I’m grateful that my sectionmates and classmates always made me feel like a valued member of the community.
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