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  • 07 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

Group taught us some lessons that could be applied more broadly regarding scaling sustainable production: Spillover effects: Sustainability efforts often contain tradeoffs that have implications and externalities for other environmental... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

principle for organizing that reflects your company’s very sense of self.” It is intended to provide a rationale for why each employee comes to work. In achieving deep purpose, Gulati maintains that tradeoffs in decision-making that will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities.  Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

to avoid disruption costs, but we theorize that such responses evoke concession costs that prompt organizations to shift resources and attention from other social domains whose performance suffers. We test this theory by examining View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
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  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

to focus employees on a particular task and base their pay on the workers’ performance need to be aware of the potential tradeoff when it comes to the willingness of workers to develop innovative ideas, she says. “Companies want more... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

for our second module: Resourcing the Business Model . Leading the firm by: 1) making tough tradeoffs when setting strategy, resolving cross-functional conflict, and making hiring/firing decisions; and 2) communicating a vision that... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

vertical chain and therefore come up with superior products. One tradeoff would therefore seem to be between large market share and high quality, of which the Microsoft/Apple comparison is a good illustration. Sony illustrates another... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

model? How might that exposure change as the organization’s operating model evolves over time? Groups should develop a clear set of principles that can serve as a guiding force when the time comes to make tradeoffs and balance priorities.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

This case-based course applies market perspectives to contemporary issues. The cases explore concrete situations that highlight the challenges and tradeoffs of decision-makers. Issues explored include: education, urban development,... View Details

    Elon Kohlberg

    Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

    Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; education industry; energy; pharmaceuticals; real estate
    • 09 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

    experienced by women in the workforce. “We found that even starting from the five-year reunions, women were tortured by the tradeoffs of family and work,” said Singer. Peak parenting years and peak career years collided in their 30s and... View Details
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    The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    kind works against it and even makes tradeoffs between economic and social goals inevitable. Traditional Roles New Roles Philanthropists Donate to charitable causes Partner with companies and NGOs to catalyze shared value initiatives NGOs... View Details
    • 19 Jan 2024
    • News

    The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

    means you're not going to be good at some other things. You have to get in touch with that clarity and make it really clear to everyone else around you what the tradeoffs are going to be. Skydeck is the Harvard Business School alumni... View Details
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    Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    other research here , Yueran’s other research here , and Andrei’s other research here . More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to... View Details

      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      • 31 May 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

      and critical dependencies. Then they can think through how 'narrow' is the optimum solution, and the cost/benefit tradeoffs of steps like incorporating more supplier or geographic diversity." View Details
      Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

        Steven C. Wheelwright

        Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

        Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

        • Portrait Project

        Shardule Shah

        create generational wealth. But soon after starting, I was increasingly drawn to the idea that it was important for my kids to see that their beloved daddy works hard. I never want them to think that there is a tradeoff between being a... View Details
        • 07 Jan 2019
        • Research & Ideas

        The Better Way to Forecast the Future

        cost of evacuations or be wider to ensure every possible scenario is taken into account. In business, that could mean weighing the cost of not having enough stock to meet demand versus carrying excess stock. “That’s a tradeoff, and the context of the forecast... View Details
        Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation