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- 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
- 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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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
- 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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Curriculum - Business & Environment
(previously Financial Capitalism) (Fall 2024) Robin Greenwood & Richard Ruback This case-based course applies market perspectives to contemporary issues. The cases explore concrete situations that highlight the challenges and tradeoffs of... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
PublicationsAdding Bricks to Clicks: Predicting the Patterns of Cross-Channel Elasticities over Time Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella Publication:Journal of Marketing (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we propose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice." Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series, No. 2020-4, December 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- 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
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
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
holds ambitions for the renminbi (RMB) to replace the dollar as a global reserve currency, we argue that this is far from the case. China’s ambitions have been to internationalize the renminbi, but, as a result of domestic financial turmoil and a reckoning over the... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... 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
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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services
submission (wrapper) scripts are the most straightforward way to submit a job on the HBSGrid. However, with this ease of use, there is the tradeoff in flexibility: there are limited choices in what programs can be run and the resources... 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
- 08 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to Business School as a Couple
attending together. But it’s a tradeoff we are willing to make, we only have two years with our section mates at HBS and have all of the years after HBS to go to events together. What advice do you have for couples applying to business... View Details