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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
contracts, and accounting and finance. The span of accountability. The second span refers to the range of trade-offs affecting the measures used to evaluate a manager's achievements. For example, a person who is accountable for head count... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
second is the trade-off myth. I have found over and over again that, for complex work in organizations, there is no trade-off between creativity and productivity, efficiency, or work quality. NB: How does... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
capital and risk. But the trade-off is that the manufacturer frequently runs short on its medium and especially its high-variability items. That means lost sales and maybe a canceled contract with a prized customer. In the third test, the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
operations. Thus, the key distinctions between the two organizational forms, affiliates and branches, are ownership, governance, and control. Nonprofits choosing the branch approach should consider the potential trade-offs between... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
Summing Up This month's column sought to pose a trade-off between improved work-life balance and productivity. In general, many among the large number of respondents rejected the notion. As Brian O'Leary put it, " ... finding a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
the firm. Working closely with Bradley, Hunter carefully managed the trade-offs and conflicts between the old business and the new units. All the leaders of the innovation projects, moreover, were asked to sit in on Bradley's executive... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Categories on Resource Allocations (revised) Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
certain fairness constraints can be as high as 30%) and also pursue the design of policies targeted specifically at remedying criticisms leveled at the recent point system proposed by U.S. policymakers. On the Efficiency-Fairness View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
funding, McCain ended up having to make some tough trade-offs regarding where to go and where to spend his money. Obama did not. Finally, Obama chose an excellent marketing and campaign team, and managed them well. From start to finish,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
Ebola. Furthermore, in the interest of efficiency, we've decreased the number of beds available for extreme cases, leaving ourselves unable to admit patients in the face of an epidemic. There's a constant trade-off between efficiency and... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
from the inquiry that you get" and getting to the "right" answer faster. The speakers noted there is a trade-off in further personalizing searches: Users have to be willing to share some personal information, even if it is... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
dimension as dishonorable, particularly in a field like health care. Hands immediately shot up around the room. His team disagreed, and after listening to their ideas for where trade-offs could be made-where resources could be shifted... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
simultaneously, and there are few templates for developing organizational processes and systems to help them do so. Internally, organizations often struggle to allocate resources toward these different goals and to deal with the View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
for the development and the smooth functioning of capital markets. At the same time, they are often motivated by their own private incentives. This, along with the trade-offs they face and the at-times unintended consequences of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
identified, and it appears that statutory deadlines for new regulations will not be met. The challenge will be to balance the trade-offs between preserving affordable credit to low-income families, protecting consumers, and ensuring the... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
to do in the past. Consumers need to think beyond just the monthly cost of their premiums and consider the trade-offs involved in their decisions, especially the risks and constraints of high deductibles and narrow network plans. From... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
thus subject to the same phenomenon of language. "While we might hope that companies do good for the community because it's the right thing to do, in general they think of it as making a short-term trade-off for a long-term return. It... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
identities, and positions. By separating brand from product, this approach aims to highlight possible ways in which brand owners in international corporations can address the trade-off between global integration and local responsiveness.... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
trade-offs between product variety and flexibility.” Read the paper: Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World: Companies Need to Make Their Networks More Resilient. Here's How. Willy C. Shih. Harvard Business Review 98, no. 5... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne