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  • 08 Feb 2021
  • Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

encourage people to examine their own lives to determine how they can come closer to maximizing the good they do in the world. “I hope that [people] make better decisions and make wiser trade-offs in life,” he says. After all, it’s not... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

career growth were more available in New York,” Enan recalls. “And the other trade-off was around quality of life. I loved going to the theater with friends, taking improv and writing classes. You can get whatever you want in New York.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 31 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans. “We need to stop trying to paint this picture of the perfect employee who never needs help.” Whillans, who studies how people navigate trade-offs between time and money, recently co-wrote a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 10 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

appointment is good for the soul.  Best hack: Reading cases while on the elliptical or bike. Two birds, one stone. Favorite Quarantine Activity: Daily bike/scooter rides with the kids.  Best advice: Work/Life Balance is a myth. It's Work/Life View Details
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Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

    Peter B. Lewis

    a market segment that was considered uninsurable. By marketing to high risk drivers, Lewis was able to separate his company from others, and in so doing, he was able to charge higher premiums. Lewis invested heavily in technology to accurately assess the risk View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 21 Jan 2016
    • Webinars: Career

    How to Snag - and Keep - Your Dream Job

    In the old days, a good career was linear. It began at prestigious universities and progressed through prestigious organizations, with few diversions or deviations along the way. Now, a career is like a collage, and prestige in jobs matters far less than impact. Life's... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Mark Plunkett

    making trade-offs, but making trade-offs with your eyes open, that is what makes the difference. Do I hope the world is a better place for my being in it, absolutely. To be able to say those words and know my family, friends, peers, and... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Simon Belsham

    I can choose to buy flowers from Kenya and create jobs in a poor country. Or I can buy flowers from Holland and put less harmful plane emissions in to the environment. I want to take responsibility for making trade-offs where there is no... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2021
    • News

    Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

    Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face difficult View Details
    • 01 Sep 2015
    • News

    An Unconventional Suggestion

    minimize the local environmental impact of extraction, and speed the transition to cleaner, lower-carbon energy. The report’s analysis found “no inherent trade-off between environmental protection and company profitability” and found that... View Details
    Keywords: April White; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

      Levels of Meaning

      project inventory needs over the course of the year. My business history courses posed questions like, How did an entrepreneur build his or her business over time? What choices did they make that were fundamental in making the business a success? What View Details
      • 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
      • 19 May 2016
      • Blog Post

      5 Lessons from Business School

      created a list of priorities and reasons for being at business school before you start. For each decision or trade-off that you make, this list helps you correctly allocate your time.  For me, coming to HBS was about making a career... View Details
      • 02 Mar 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

      same choices in terms of open source and proprietary software. There is no simple ranking of open source and proprietary software, either in terms of the full costs of adoption or the quality of the software. The basic reason is that open source and commercial software... View Details
      Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology
      • 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
      • 08 Jul 2016
      • News

      So Why Don't You Have Your Dream Job Yet?

      requires long hours. A role at an environmental nonprofit that meets interests and lifestyle needs, but doesn’t pay well. “At least recognizing that there are trade-offs is really powerful. And what I like to say is you can have it all... View Details
      • 01 Jun 2018
      • News

      Q&A with Janet Cahill

      know that HBS is using my gifts wisely? HBS employs a disciplined budget process—making trade-offs when necessary and focusing new investment in areas of strategic importance to extend the mission of the School. In the spirit of... View Details
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