Structural Balance - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

organization has already achieved product-market fit. You will learn how to design performance alignment systems, such as Objectives and Key Results systems (OKRs), Balanced Scorecards (BSCs), and Performance-potential models, to hold... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

that is dwarfed by the museum's immense airy inte-rior, or experiencing the overwhelming scale of the Met's grand entryway. Not surprisingly, maintaining these enormous older structures can be a challenge, particularly when taking into... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

royalty rates would not be a cure-all. Not only would such discussions raise antitrust concerns about collusion, but as the authors explain in the paper, "price discussions within the standard setting process run the risk of expropriation of IP holders, as even... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

01 Dec 2008
News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

financial institutions.) Finally, prepare a long-term rehabilitation plan. For the country’s financial system, this means a new regulatory structure. “It, for sure, will be reregulated because the government had to be so deeply involved in the rescue,” said Light. “And... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

agreed: "The main reason for the rising inequality is that Free Trade has encouraged/required manufacturing to be offshored and outsourced If we replaced the Free Trade policies with a Balanced Trade policy, using (import licences)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

that their credit needs are being satisfied. One of the most frequently cited snapshots of small business credit markets is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) Call Report data. According to this data, commercial bank loans on the View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

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

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

by 300 percent in one year by altering the company's profit structure and leveraging its balance sheet. Among other reengineering moves, Robinson reduced fixed costs significantly by centralizing the firm's... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

ago, this strategy worked quite well. "But at the same time that we were seeing substantial growth in the financial services business and a remarkable change in the landscape, the regulatory structure had not kept pace at all. It was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

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

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

creativity in organizations. Address and answer the questions: can creativity scale? Can creativity be consistently achieved and maintained in organizations? What organizational structural features are conducive to creativity? Encourage... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

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

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Alumni Forums - Alumni

structure of forum ensures you can address important issues in a way that informal conversations may not allow. It thus affords you with new and fresh perspectives from exceptionally qualified peers. The discipline of forum ensures that... View Details

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Authors:Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter Abstract The care delivery value chain is a framework that can help conceptualize the organization and structure of care delivery for medical conditions. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

the firm. She was thus familiar with its culture and practices. To ensure broad perspective, two "outsider" researchers—Ramarajan and McGinn—conducted the detailed coding of the inside data. "Our insider-outsider authorship provided a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

January 1996 (Revised December 2005)
Case

First Community Bank (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved profitability but must manage relationships with the mainstream at Bank of Boston, serve as a change agent and... View Details