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11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

approaching it product by product.” Their findings highlight the complexities managers face in navigating an increasingly competitive industry. But if there's no easy recipe for software firms, even in the seemingly ideal balance of mixed... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

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Harvard Business School

the Harvard Law Review. Melissa James MBA 1989 Melissa James is a vice chairman and managing director of Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley. She is currently chief risk officer for lending, where she oversees capital, liquidity, and View Details

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

rewarding and promoting people who can team, and actively work across the marketing/sales boundary leads to a cadre of more balanced managers. These same companies also often explicitly punish salespeople and marketing executives who... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

college admissions. Join Mandee Heller Adler (MBA 1999), CEO and founder of International College Counselors, for the inside scoop on college admissions. Balancing the Digital Scales: The Promise and Pitfalls of Modern Platforms Professor... View Details

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

for your product or service, as well as to remove the inhibitors to purchasing. The most successful companies follow this two-pronged strategy of providing a reason for the customer to buy, while eliminating annoying problems in the order cycle. Whether it is Microsoft... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

establishing or revising their safety protocols or preemptively stacking inventory. Adaptation sometimes meant being able to strike a fine balance between leveraging existing capabilities and finding innovative ways to integrate old... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

2018
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New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee

For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory

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09 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan

01 Jan 2014
News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

Research Summary

Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting

01 Dec 2011
News

Happening Fast

and on the shortlist of possible successors to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82), Forbes magazine (September 12, 2011) reported. “The rare female comet in the male-dominated firmament of Wall Street,” Erdoes seeks “work/life integration” rather than an elusive, and... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jun 1997
News

Carla Small

Working mothers may have become commonplace in corporate America, but in business school, student moms are still in a class by themselves. Just ask Carla Small. "I went from being surrounded by other women trying to balance a job and... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

With the 15th Reunion for the Class of 1984 just around the corner, the Bulletin revisits five members of the class we've been keeping tabs on over the years to learn how they're balancing family and professional responsibilities. We... View Details

Career Coach

Robert Kimmel

of a startup, he also has experience in entrepreneurship and an interest in coaching students considering starting their own businesses. In addition to these industries, Robert enjoys helping students navigate through work-life balance... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing; Private Equity; Financial Services (All)

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

lives we must continue to push for more." But Mal Watlington poses perhaps the most challenging question: "The history of philosophy is filled with great thinkers who advise us to seek balance in life, yet the history of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2012
News

WSA Speakers Kick Off W50

All." Slaughter cited the importance of flextime and of having a longer-term perspective on the arc of one's career, adding that she believed a "huge norm shift" in attitudes toward work-life balance is entirely possible in a short period... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

A Bankable Trust

has performed in theater productions, at weddings and parties, and, for the last five years, in a gospel choir. "It's important to have balance in one's life," she observed. That balance also includes... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2011
News

All in Good Time

O’Kelly’s mind, as is, ironically, maintaining balance in her own life. “Amid ups and downs, I do feel like I’m achieving it,” says O’Kelly, who declined venture capital funding so that she could maintain more control over how quickly the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; staffing agencies; parenthood; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services

Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

found a balance that works most of the time: My husband does the morning drop-off, and I do the afternoon pickup, although it’s a precarious balance that is easily thrown off by a child getting sick or an... View Details

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