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  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

center and the units about the resource and performance tradeoffs involved in choosing a particular alternative. When you're clear on your strategic goals and have a process that integrates strategic planning with resource allocation and... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

test. They will also affect employment, wages, and union negotiations. Widespread use of temperature screening and tracing of people’s physical movement and health status will generate debates on privacy and data protection. These pressures inevitably engender serious... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • Web

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
  • Web

Timing - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

type of flexibility does not negate the usefulness of planning. Indeed, it requires planning, so that real time choices can be made in the moment with an informed assessment of the tradeoffs involved. Timing with a Case Example David... 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
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

largest number of opportunities possible, many transitioning veterans may not need those options, especially if they can quickly climb the learning curve about opportunities outside of the military before they transition.  As you think about the JD/MBA program,... View Details
  • Research Summary

Current Research

Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details

  • 11 May 2022
  • Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the RC (first-year) and EC... View Details
  • January 2024
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

multiple actors and causal mechanisms that are still poorly understood. In such cases, it can still be useful to try to measure what an organization is doing and whether its strategies are working to influence societal change. But there's a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Web

Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

Investment Define key finance terms and understand the opportunities and tradeoffs associated with different sources of financing Highlights Intuit Choosing an Investor The Complete Fundraising Landscape Stages of Investment Show Hide... View Details
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Named as one of the Rising Stars in Computer Science . Alan D. MacCormack : Winner of the 2016 Wickham Skinner Award for the best paper published in Production and Operations Management for “Managing the Performance Tradeoffs from Partner... View Details
  • February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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  • 13 May 2019
  • Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

on some weekend trips or crazy startups, I had an incredibly rich experience at HBS. Remember that everyone is making tradeoffs (the folks who are busy trying to get a job in PE aren’t having much fun or starting companies either!) and... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

structure, formal management processes, information technology, the informal social network, and people. Organizational structure is a natural beginning but most people expect too much from it. There is no "perfect" structure. Instead, there are many View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

will show how deep-purpose companies energize their enterprise by inspiring employees and fostering greater loyalty and trust with customers and partners. Purpose is also a compass with which these firms effectively navigate the inevitable View Details
  • March 2022
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
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Overview

By: Feng Zhu
Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2021
  • Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

distinction between “System 1” thinking, in which we make snap judgements and use heuristics rather than logic to make choices about our behavior, and “System 2” thinking, in which we look at the world realistically and rationally. Time View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

markets and analyze the impact of market changes 12 hrs Module 2 Strategies for Assessing and Increasing Demand Appreciate how complements and network effects impact demand and evaluate techniques to increase demand and measure the View Details