Structural Balance - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

structure, formal management processes, information technology, the informal social network, and people. Organizational structure is a natural beginning but most people expect too much from it. There is no "perfect" structure.... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

15 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

best equipped to handle such a complex task. Especially when compared with bank regulators and boards, bodies overseeing insurance companies and pension funds have had limited exposure to the structured products that increasingly populate... View Details

Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

an hour, or 90 minutes at the most. There are tremendous diminishing returns in lengthier meetings. When you only have an hour, you don't waste time on nonproductive tangents. You also need to think about how you structure the meeting.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

13 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

contracting structure has important strategic implications. Preferring Balanced vs. Advantageous Peace Agreements: A Study of Israeli Attitudes Towards a Two-State Solution Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Jeremy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

sustainable.” The trio of thinkers proposed the idea in a 2018 Harvard Business Review article, in which they dubbed such a strategy “inclusive growth.” Kaplan, one of the cocreators of the Balanced Scorecard methodology, and Serafeim, an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says Harvard Business School's Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, is that the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

levels and demand post-COVID has resulted in firms seeking a return to the meritocracy of old through significant layoffs, restructuring, and new promotion practices. Though effective in achieving balance in the short term, such actions... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

23 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

and private venture funds. Corporate efforts lack the partnership-based organizational structure that many have identified as critical to the success of private equity funds. On the other hand, corporations are able to exploit... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

13 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

of principles of trade between countries. A: The title of the paper refers to the idea that, in choosing the optimal maturity structure of its debt, the government balances the costs of rollover risk (in the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

because of a perfect storm of their falling sales and weakened collateral, and growing risk aversion among lenders. Those days are not over. While lingering cyclical factors from the crisis may still be constraining access to bank credit, there are also View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

the risk-adjusted balance sheet, which shows the sensitivity of the enterprise's assets and liabilities to external "shocks." At the national level, the sectors of an economy are viewed as interconnected portfolios of assets,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

strong positions and the most productive cost structures in their industries, can expect to gain market share. Other companies with healthy balance sheets can do so by acquiring weak competitors. 8.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

public firms during this period were only 41% of net income. And, in fact, during this decade investment increased substantially while cash balances ballooned. In short, S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures cannot provide much basis for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

Austin, Fearing develops a "fairness" metric that (in the case of severe weather, for example) balances the trade-off between the most efficient and the most equitable allocation of delays. The FAA's current Traffic Flow... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

insights into how we can lead more balanced lives. Tell us in the comment section below what you thought were the most interesting business trends of the year. Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews African American and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

picturesque suburb. Instead, global workplace surveys portray a generation that yearns for more flexible work arrangements and prioritizes work-life balance over career progression. Millennials want to advance quickly and are keenly... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

said minority-owned companies can make for a more comfortable work environment for professionals of color. "Unfortunately, there are not as many as we may like," he said. Smaller, friendlier, less structured companies can also... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its... View Details