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- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
maintaining a personal balance and staying grounded can the CEO achieve the perspective required to make decisions in the interest of the company and its long-term prosperity. View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Now Starring: Single Dad
WAND: With Robby, at HBS. Courtesy John Wand John Wand (MBA ’81) was about to enroll in Harvard College when his high-school sweetheart in Boise, Idaho, told him she was pregnant. The couple married and moved to Cambridge, but after a couple of years, Wand’s wife left... View Details
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
Scott, " government by the people is no assurance that it is for the people. For the market frameworks of a capitalist society to best balance societal costs and benefits [p]olitical leaders working through the political institutions... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
possibly to an extent where even meritorious lawsuits are not being brought, though that is hard to establish empirically. “The bottom line from our study is that the balance has moved away from investors and towards auditors.” A... View Details
- Web
Business Insights Blog | HBS Online
News & Events Productivity Staff Spotlight Strategy Student Profiles Technology Work-Life Balance Courses Courses AI Essentials for Business Alternative Investments Business Analytics Business Strategy Business and Climate Change CLIMB... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
have long balanced competing notions of fairness when deciding on policy toward the poor. We want everyone to pitch in, to pay their "fair share," so we have moved away from making cash transfers to low-income households and... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- December 1997 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Citibank: Performance Evaluation
By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Citibank has introduced a new, comprehensive performance-scorecard system. A regional president struggles with a tough decision: how to evaluate an outstanding branch manager who has scored poorly on an important customer satisfaction measure. This case provides a... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Balanced Scorecard; Business Strategy; Customer Satisfaction; Performance Expectations; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Quality; Banking Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Antonio Davila. "Citibank: Performance Evaluation." Harvard Business School Case 198-048, December 1997. (Revised October 1999.)
- Web
2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
participants were next asked to rate several specific threats to the financial system, including market turmoil due to political risk, The Federal Reserve unwinding of its balance sheet, the Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy, the... View Details
- December 2009 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
TD Canada Trust
By: Dennis Campbell and Brent Kazan
The case illustrates the role of performance measurement and analytics in translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers and... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Commercial Banking; Profit; Balanced Scorecard; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Banking Industry; Canada
Campbell, Dennis, and Brent Kazan. "TD Canada Trust." Harvard Business School Case 110-049, December 2009. (Revised September 2014.)
- Research Summary
Designing Productive Zones of Privacy
A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Time and the Value of Data
By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti
Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details
Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value
Valavi, Ehsan, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani, and Marco Iansiti. "Time and the Value of Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-016, August 2020. (Revised November 2021.)
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
have created, balancing their generosity with the need to keep some of that value for themselves. Achieving this balance may not be as easy as it seems. Keystone organizations must make sure that the value... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
People skills make all the difference at senior levels. How have your priorities changed since 1974? After graduating from HBS, I embarked upon a very career-centric existence, and I have to admit that it has paid off. But since having children, my life is more View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 16 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience
experience balances with the all too common FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) that is quite palpable on campus. While traditionally in society extroverts have received the bulk of attention, introverts are increasingly being acknowledged for... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
step in the right direction, and one of the few major drivers of IPv6 deployment. But so far OMB hasn't yet tried to force agencies to actually use IPv6, knowing that it would be too costly, too inconvenient, and on balance too hard to... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
coordinating role to help bring strategy to fruition. For this e-mail Q&A, Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, teamed up with colleague Andrew Pateman, Principal of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
infrastructure that separates companies could have profound implications and incentivize companies to become more long-term-oriented. Q: What is the lesson for corporate leaders as they seek to balance the need for long-term strategy with... View Details
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Teele Hall | About
“Our problems at the School today turn on people, programs, and pennies. Each depends upon the others; to keep them all in balance in an organization is a delicate task. But if we cannot perform this feat under conditions of change and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
days that they drive. This type of contract is common in other markets, for instance in cell-phone contracts, where pay-as-you-go enabled the proliferation of smartphone adoption across the world by allowing consumers to “top up” their View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
greater overall lifetime value for Surround, aligned with Terry’s other objective. Partnerships can also shine a light on adjacent areas that might have product market fit with a few additional tweaks to the product, thereby driving additional differentiated growth.... View Details