Balance and Stability - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

users out of luck. Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and his colleagues are studying how SSOs balance the interests of users against the interest of sponsors to gain widespread acceptance of new... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

arise primarily from the wave of mergers and acquisitions that continue to alter the balance of power among media firms. The Walt Disney Company, for instance, in addition to owning the American Broadcasting... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

encourages others to do it), modularity and openness (determining the ease with which outside complementors can "hitch their wagons" to the platform), balance (between competition View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

ultimate measure of performance is total return to the investor. There is passing reference to the fact that, without new thinking, this philosophy can be tough on employees (and one might add communities). There is recognition that View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

ongoing need to maintain balance between rapid growth and corporate focus. It's just as dangerous to grow indiscriminately as it is to grow too slowly." Whatever the outcome, riding the Internet fast... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

by the United States. Nearly all of it involves the trade of manufactured goods. Much less attention is being paid to trade in services, which represent 84 percent of all employment in the US, 80 percent of global spending, and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

versus strangers) might affect their approach to splitting the equity (both the equality of the split and the timing of the split) and how the split might affect both the founding-team's View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

Khaire said. "But there is a need to balance that out with the realities of the economic world, and it's often a difficult balance. Any of these big signature art events end up having that... View Details

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

and James R. Hines Jr. to exploit the unique opportunity provided by confidential, government-collected data on U.S. multinationals. This source effectively provides income statements and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

relationships that are successful over time, the parties, despite obvious power disparities, work together to develop a spirit of mutual trust and cooperation that gradually brings a degree of balance to... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

guard—largely because it flies in the face of other studies and anecdotal evidence showing that, within many businesses, the employee pool has grown more racially mixed over time. “There’s this assumption that firms are more diverse,”... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

putting off those who find it liberating) is a tricky balance to achieve. Success therefore depends in part on constantly fine-tuning the mix between silence and signs to produce an optimal environment for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

Why hasn't previous research examined the number of households with substantial balances in both taxable and tax-deferred accounts [TDAs]? A: I think it would be a bit misleading to say that people had never... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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