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- 1986
- Book
Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending
By: Dutch Leonard
Leonard, Dutch. Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending. Basic Books, 1986.
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
Summing Up The concept of "just enough" triggered the sensitivities of many of us, judging from the quantity of responses to this month's column. Respondents divided themselves not into the usual pro and con camps, but into... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
managing the execution of existing policies and practices to pursue goals often set by others. Middle managers lead smaller numbers of associates but with more intense interaction, requiring them to balance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- April 1983
- Supplement
Dansk Designs Ltd.: The Administration of Creativity, Video II
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Presents two divergent views on the administration of creativity. Jens Quistgaard, designer, discusses his feelings about Dansk's policy direction as it affects design creativity. Then Ted Nierenberg, president, discusses his type of management and some of the problems... View Details
Keywords: Management; Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Creativity; Balance and Stability
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "Dansk Designs Ltd.: The Administration of Creativity, Video II." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 883-516, April 1983.
- November 2004
- Tutorial
Principles of Microeconomics for Strategists
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Pai-Ling Yin and Elizabeth Raabe
Reviews microeconomic principles from a business strategy perspective, using the digital music industry as context. Contains three modules: demand, supply, and equilibrium. The demand module discusses the willingness to pay, market demand, price elasticity, and... View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
human capital and the machine learning toolbox stand to improve decision-making and product development. But doing so requires careful consideration of the balance between... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Saudi Arabia: Modern Reform, Enduring Stability. Dubai: Global Economy (TN)
Teaching Note for 709042 and 709043. View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Crises Professor Robin Greenwood No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Over the past decade, researchers at Harvard Business School, through the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability... View Details
- March 2010
- Article
Matching with Preferences over Colleagues Solves Classical Matching
In this note, we demonstrate that the problem of "many-to-one matching with (strict) preferences over colleagues" is actually more difficult than the classical many-to-one matching problem, "matching without preferences over colleagues." We give an explicit reduction... View Details
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Matching with Preferences over Colleagues Solves Classical Matching." Games and Economic Behavior 68, no. 2 (March 2010): 773–780.
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
executives about how to balance those requirements? A: You are absolutely right—there is a constant tradeoff between managing for the short and long run. I can't speak for Sir Alex, of course, but I think he... View Details
- October 29, 2011
- Other Article
Upstream Sovereigns
By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
With all the focus on Europe, it is easy to ignore the argument that global imbalances remain a drag on economic recovery. This column decomposes international capital flows into public and private components and claims that upstream flows from emerging to advanced... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Business Cycles; Balance and Stability; Capital; Developing Countries and Economies
Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych. "Upstream Sovereigns." Vox, CEPR Policy Portal (October 29, 2011).
- Web
Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
balancing basic and applied research while demonstrating accountability to the company's stockholders: Our scientists get half of their time for themselves, to be free scientists, to think, to dream, to... View Details
- Web
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,... View Details
- December 2009
- Article
Hiding the Evidence of Valid Theories: How Coupled Search Processes Obscure Performance Differences Among Organizations
By: Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan Rivkin
Theorists argue that an organization's high-level choices, such as its organizational design or the attributes of its top management team, should influence its performance, yet empirical researchers have struggled to detect such influence. The impact of high-level... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Power and Influence; Balance and Stability
Siggelkow, Nicolaj, and Jan Rivkin. "Hiding the Evidence of Valid Theories: How Coupled Search Processes Obscure Performance Differences Among Organizations." Administrative Science Quarterly 54, no. 4 (December 2009): 602 – 634.
- November 2006
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #1: Solving Bi-matrix Games
By: Dennis A. Yao
Explains how to solve bi-matrix games and introduces the Nash Equilibrium concept. View Details
- February 2015
- Article
Location Choices under Strategic Interactions
By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Dezso and Minyuan Zhao
The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details
Keywords: Location Strategies; Multinational Strategy; Oligopolistic Competition; Firm Heterogeneity; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory
Alcacer, Juan, Cristian Dezso, and Minyuan Zhao. "Location Choices under Strategic Interactions." Strategic Management Journal 36, no. 2 (February 2015): 197–215.
- November 1997 (Revised February 1998)
- Case
WESCO Distribution, Inc.
By: Das Narayandas
In 1996, WESCO, a national distributor of electrical equipment and supplies, charted out a growth of 6 to 8 percent in sales, and 12 to 16 percent in profitability over the next five years. The centerpiece of this growth strategy is the National Accounts (NA) program... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Customer Satisfaction; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution; Sales; Balance and Stability; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry
Narayandas, Das. "WESCO Distribution, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 598-021, November 1997. (Revised February 1998.)
- 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 View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
and observable stability using reduced form regressions. The other is an institutional economics conception of how to measure performance. It is focused on understanding whether foreign entry gave rise to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne