Balance Of Payments - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

and the needs of his or her new employer.Not all managers are equally suited to all business situations. The strategic skills required to control costs in the face of fierce price competition are not the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

business models...to find new ways of doing things that can change the economic or competitive balance in some industries. People need to understand what those opportunities are—and how to take advantage... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

companies typically respond by putting in all sorts of controls. But if they go overboard in that direction, their businesses can become too internally focused and lose the growth engine. The ultimate challenge for managers is to maintain... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

03 Dec 2001
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

examples of how, by practicing judo principles of movement (not inviting attack, defining the competitive space, and following through fast); balance (gripping your opponent,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

or an equity mutual fund that holds low-dividend stocks and passes through little in the way of realized capital gains. A high-tax asset might be a standard corporate bond, since the interest payments on a... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

with the capacity and courage to effect these changes? Another message, according to Herzlinger, was about the role of payment models on cost, quality, and access to care and the need to ensure that "access"... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

this Q&A, HBS professors and strategy experts Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu offer a practical framework for succeeding in emerging markets. Key concepts include: The ambition level of large, fast-growing emerging markets around... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

internally, they need to ensure that the management team, as a balanced composite, has within it the requisite perspectives from the right schools of experience. We will return to this challenge later in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

11 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

target, rather than targeting an arbitrary number. Devising this number means finding just the right balance in the inevitable compromise the firm has to make between increasing the target size to reduce the potential loss View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

loved her job and did not want to make the sacrifices a promotion would entail, she was overcome by a sense of contentment. Balancing inside and outside pressures when choosing a career is a monumental task,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in his... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

practices, says Healy, including a tightening of internal controls regarding payments to business partners, a common way to launder bribes to officials. In the case of Siemens,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

What do Stella McCartney, Apple, Netflix, and Wal-Mart have in common? They were all subjects of the most popular episodes of Harvard Business School's Cold Call podcast in the last year. Twice monthly, host... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

They do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. At a time when the temptation before some managers is orders of magnitude greater than twenty or thirty years ago, the concern is that the... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

unfamiliar with standard research rules. It took nearly four years to design the health care worker recruitment experiment, Ashraf notes. "It's challenging to balance the rigor of science and objectivity... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

government can work together to create jobs.” "We've made a lot of progress on the macroeconomic front: deficit reduction, balancing the budget, what the Fed is doing, and tax policy reform," says... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

doors, with the belief that they can get away with it. Men supervising the trading floors of Wall Street overlooking raunchy locker room humor by adopting a boys-will-be-boys attitude. Changing that dynamic requires making sure an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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