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  • 05 Apr 2021
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Navigating Trade-Offs

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Mastering Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs

By: Christopher B. Bingham and Rory M. McDonald
Leaders must answer eight key questions to address the hidden tensions underlying innovation strategies. View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership
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Bingham, Christopher B., and Rory M. McDonald. "Mastering Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs." MIT Sloan Management Review 63, no. 4 (Summer 2022): 66–72.
  • December 2012
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On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is right can be fairly nebulous; we consider two issues that we see as key: efficiency and fairness. We... View Details
Keywords: Decision Support; Cost vs Benefits; Fairness; Resource Allocation; Performance Efficiency; Air Transportation Industry
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Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis. "On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off." Management Science 58, no. 12 (December 2012): 2234–2250.
  • November 2006
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Breaking the Trade-Off Between Efficiency and Service

By: Frances X. Frei
Keywords: Performance Efficiency
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Frei, Frances X. "Breaking the Trade-Off Between Efficiency and Service." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006): 92–101.
  • 1992
  • Working Paper

Employment versus Sub-Contracting: The Real Trade-Offs

By: Amar Bhide and Howard Stevenson
By many accounts, sub-contracting is in the vogue while traditional employment relationships are on the outs. Ten years ago free-lancers, independent subcontractors and the like accounted for about 10 percent of the labor force; today they constitute 25 percent. Of the... View Details
Keywords: Sub-contracting; Freelancers; Employment; Organizations; Theory
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Bhide, Amar, and Howard Stevenson. "Employment versus Sub-Contracting: The Real Trade-Offs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 88-046, March 1987. (Revised March 1992.)

    On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off

    How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is right can be fairly nebulous; we consider two issues that we see as key: efficiency and fairness. We approach the problem of designing... View Details
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    Making Strategic Trade-offs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Creating a Successful St... Creating a Successful Strategy Unique Value Proposition Distinctive Value Chain Making... View Details
    • 09 Mar 2009
    • News

    Trade-offs in the Moral Maze

    • 09 Mar 2009
    • News

    Trade-offs in the moral maze

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    Procedural Rules and Procurement Regulations: Complexity Creates Trade-offs

    By: Shane Greenstein
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    Greenstein, Shane. "Procedural Rules and Procurement Regulations: Complexity Creates Trade-offs." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 9, no. 1 (April 1993): 159–180.
    • March–April 1998
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    Even Swaps: A Rational Method for Making Trade-Offs

    By: John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Raiffa
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    Hammond, John S., Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa. "Even Swaps: A Rational Method for Making Trade-Offs." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 2 (March–April 1998): 137–+.
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Financial & Temporal Trade-Offs in the Firm-Customer Relationship

    By: Daniel A. Brown and Shashank Shah
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    Brown, Daniel A., and Shashank Shah. "Financial & Temporal Trade-Offs in the Firm-Customer Relationship." Working Paper, June 2018. (Invited Revision at Journal of Marketing.)
    • 07 Mar 2016
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    Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs

    Keywords: by Shane Greenstein, Martin Peitz, and Tommaso Valletti; Media & Broadcasting; Technology; Telecommunications
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs

    By: Shane Greenstein, Martin Peitz and Tommaso Valletti
    The “net neutrality” principle has triggered a heated debate, and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of market participants... View Details
    Keywords: Rights; Internet and the Web; Debates
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    Greenstein, Shane, Martin Peitz, and Tommaso Valletti. "Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21950, January 2016.
    • 2023
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    Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse

    By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods
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    Pawelczyk, Martin, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse." Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2023).
    • 2022
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    Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs

    By: Chris Bingham and Rory McDonald
    Why is leading innovation in nascent business environments so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90% of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80% of executives consider innovation crucial to their growth strategy, but only 6%... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Decision Making
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    Bingham, Chris, and Rory McDonald. Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.
    • March 2009
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    Trade-offs in Staying Close: Corporate Decision Making and Geographic Dispersion

    By: Augustin Landier, Vinay Nair and Julie Wulf
    We document the role of geographic dispersion on corporate decision-making. Our findings include: (i) geographically dispersed firms are less employee friendly; (ii) dismissals of divisional employees are less common in divisions located closer to corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Geographic Location; Employees; Resignation and Termination; Retention
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    Landier, Augustin, Vinay Nair, and Julie Wulf. "Trade-offs in Staying Close: Corporate Decision Making and Geographic Dispersion." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 3 (March 2009): 1119–1148.
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    Trade-offs between Productivity and Quality in Selecting Software Development Practices

    By: Alan MacCormack, Chris F. Kemerer, Michael A. Cusumano and Bill Crandall
    Keywords: Quality; Applications and Software; Research and Development; Practice; Performance Productivity
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    MacCormack, Alan, Chris F. Kemerer, Michael A. Cusumano, and Bill Crandall. "Trade-offs between Productivity and Quality in Selecting Software Development Practices." IEEE Software 20, no. 5 (September–October 2003): 78–85.
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Status Pivoting: Coping with Status Threats through Motivated Trade-off Beliefs and Consumption across Domains

    By: Dafna Goor, Anat Keinan and Nailya Ordabayeva
    Prior research established that status threat leads consumers to display status-related products such as luxury brands. While compensatory consumption in the domain of the status threat (e.g., products associated with financial and professional success) is the most... View Details
    Keywords: Status and Position; Luxury; Consumer Behavior
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    Goor, Dafna, Anat Keinan, and Nailya Ordabayeva. "Status Pivoting: Coping with Status Threats through Motivated Trade-off Beliefs and Consumption across Domains." Working Paper, April 2019. (Invited for revision at Journal of Consumer Research.)
    • 1988
    • Article

    Innovazione Finanziara Internationale e Stabilita di Mercati: Un Caso di Trade-off

    By: Marc L Bertoneche
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    Bertoneche, Marc L. "Innovazione Finanziara Internationale e Stabilita di Mercati: Un Caso di Trade-off." Economia italiana, no. 3 (1988).
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