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- 2009
- Chapter
Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making
By: Jan Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and make strategizing difficult. In this chapter, the authors explore the intersection between organizing and...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Strategy;
Balance and Stability
Rivkin, Jan, and Nicolaj Siggelkow. "Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making." In The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit, and Risk in an Interlinked World, edited by Paul R. Kleindorfer and Yoram Wind. Wharton School Publishing, 2009.
- October 2022
- Article
Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets
By: Wenxin Du and Jesse Schreger
We provide a comprehensive account of the evolution of the currency composition of sovereign and corporate external borrowing by emerging markets from 2003 to 2017. We show that a higher reliance on foreign currency debt by the corporate sector is associated with...
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Du, Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger. "Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 10 (October 2022): 4587–4629.
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
The Balance of Power Between Employees and Employers
- Article
Formal Measures in Informal Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture?
By: Robert Gibbons and Robert S. Kaplan
Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal incentive contracts. For example, after Kaplan-Norton proposed a balanced scorecard of both financial and non-financial measures, some envisioned its role only in...
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Keywords:
Relational Contracts;
Performance Measurement;
Informal Management;
Balanced Scorecard;
Economics;
Mathematical Methods
Gibbons, Robert, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Formal Measures in Informal Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture?" American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015).
- August 1983 (Revised February 1988)
- Supplement
Kennedy and the Balance of Payments, Exercise Worksheet
By: David B. Yoffie
Supplements the case.
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Keywords:
United States
Yoffie, David B. "Kennedy and the Balance of Payments, Exercise Worksheet." Harvard Business School Supplement 384-006, August 1983. (Revised February 1988.)
- March 10, 2011
- Article
Why Balanced Funds Trump Target-Dates in Retirement Plans
By: Robert C. Pozen
- 06 Oct 2011
- News
A Tough Balancing Act Remains Ahead for Apple
- June 2019
- Supplement
Elon Musk: Balancing Purpose and Risk; Risk Tolerance Exercise
By: Shikhar Ghosh
- January 4, 2019
- Article
How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals
By: Marya L. Besharov, Wendy K. Smith and Michael Tushman
It’s notoriously difficult for a business to manage two separate-but-equal goals—making money and creating social value at the same time, for example, or managing an existing business at the same time that you invent a new one. Most attempts at managing these...
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Keywords:
Goals and Objectives;
Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Profit;
Decision Making
Besharov, Marya L., Wendy K. Smith, and Michael Tushman. "How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 4, 2019).
- July – August 2009
- Article
Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance
By: Sebastian Raisch, Julian Birkinshaw, Gilbert Probst and Michael Tushman
Organizational ambidexterity has emerged as a new research paradigm in organization theory, yet several issues that are fundamental to this debate remain controversial. We explore four central tensions here: Should organizations achieve ambidexterity through...
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Keywords:
Change;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Research;
Integration
Raisch, Sebastian, Julian Birkinshaw, Gilbert Probst, and Michael Tushman. "Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance." Organization Science 20, no. 4 (July–August 2009): 685–695.
- 17 Nov 2021
- News
Balance of Power: How to Fix Supply Chain Issues
- June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Revlon India’s Turnaround: Navigating Online-Offline Decisions Using a Balanced Scorecard
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
Revlon India was founded as a joint venture in 1995, pairing the industrial conglomerate UMG with the global beauty brand Revlon, Inc. to bring international color cosmetics to India. After growing rapidly and pioneering the Beauty Advisor (BA) model in India, the...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Restructuring;
Training;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Distribution;
E-commerce;
Strategy;
Business Model;
Business Plan;
Decision Making;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Marketing Strategy;
Alignment;
Brands and Branding;
Negotiation;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
India
Sandino, Tatiana, and Samuel Grad. "Revlon India’s Turnaround: Navigating Online-Offline Decisions Using a Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 124-107, June 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- June/July 1997
- Article
Why Does Business Need a Balanced Scorecard? Part II
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton
Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard
- 30 Mar 2020
- News
Working Parents, Let Go of the Idea of Balance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Balance work on your business and in your community
Marlin Miller, Jr. (MBA 1956), cofounder and director of Norwich Ventures, on balancing working on your business and working for your community. (Published April 2014)
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- 21 Aug 2023
- Book
You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance
Rebalance early and often A good portfolio has a balance of stocks and bonds, based on your current financial picture. The same is true at work: Everyone has different needs at different times, and that’s important to acknowledge. At some...
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by Kara Baskin
- May 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Shell's Balancing Act: Resource Allocation and the Green Transition
By: David Collis and Haisley Wert
In mid-2023, amid pressure from climate change activists, shareholder activists, and confronting enormous uncertainty about the future demand for and price of fossil fuels, new Shell CEO Wael Sawan (Harvard MBA 2003) announced a change in strategy for the U.K. oil...
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Keywords:
Portfolio Analysis;
Climate;
Oil;
Oil And Gas;
Oil Companies;
Renewables;
Petroleum;
Investor Demand;
Investors;
Corporate Strategy;
Resource Allocation;
Climate Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Energy Industry;
United Kingdom
- October 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
PepsiCo, Performance with Purpose, Achieving the Right Global Balance
Keywords:
Corporate Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Strategic Planning;
Food and Beverage Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Rakesh Khurana, Rajiv Lal, and Eric Baldwin. "PepsiCo, Performance with Purpose, Achieving the Right Global Balance." Harvard Business School Case 412-079, October 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- December 1984 (Revised February 1986)
- Supplement
Kennedy and the Balance of Payments, Exercise Worksheet (Answers)
By: David B. Yoffie
Supplements the case.
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Yoffie, David B. "Kennedy and the Balance of Payments, Exercise Worksheet (Answers)." Harvard Business School Supplement 385-243, December 1984. (Revised February 1986.)
- 05 Dec 2012
- News