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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
basically disengage from the work. Unfortunately, downsizing will remain a fact of life, which means that leaders need to focus on the things that get hit. Communication and collaboration decline significantly. So too does people’s sense of freedom and autonomy.... View Details
- February 2010
- Case
Burt's Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability (Multimedia)
By: Christopher Marquis
The case examines sustainability initiatives at Burt's Bees, with video segments that detail the company's history, leadership, and implementation of ambitious 2020 sustainability goals. The company traces its roots to 1984, when Roxanne Quinby and Burt Schavitz teamed... View Details
Keywords: Balance and Stability; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Mergers and Acquisitions; Social Enterprise; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ethics
Marquis, Christopher. "Burt's Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability (Multimedia)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 410-704, February 2010.
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
may feel that they haven’t been able to provide the guidance that team members need to manage their work during the crisis. Some leaders have been too hands-off, leaving team members lost. Others have micromanaged in an attempt to maintain View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
lower investment returns. Adjustments can be made in succeeding years, keeping in mind the long-term payout goals of balancing budgetary stability with the preservation of the endowment's purchasing power. Each year the Harvard... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
balancing budget stability with preserving the endowment’s purchasing power. The Harvard Corporation approves the final amount each year. Funds within the HBS endowment and those of the other Harvard schools are managed by Harvard... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
policies, and for the overall legitimacy and stability of democratic regimes. In the United States, for instance, minorities are much less likely to vote than whites and young people are much less likely to vote than seniors. The trend of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
wasn’t secured by September 30, the remaining $180 million would disappear, giving Harmon and Enan just weeks to change more than a few hearts and minds. (Arguments used for denying and delaying the remaining funding often centered around the Egyptian government’s lack... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
increase the productivity of our land and raw materials, what’s ahead of us is a fourth industrial revolution—a “resource revolution” that creates more alignment, stability and resiliency in our world. Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006) Managing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
American technology and know-how, governments' movement to be more fiscally conservative - make for a lot of stability and opportunity.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “There's great opportunity. Look at China; with more than a... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information and safeguard the stability... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Crises Professor Robin Greenwood No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Over the past decade, researchers at Harvard Business School, through the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, have made tremendous... View Details
- Article
Mastering Balance: How to Meet and Beat a Stronger Opponent
By: David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak
Keywords: Balance and Stability
Yoffie, David B., and Mary Kwak. "Mastering Balance: How to Meet and Beat a Stronger Opponent." California Management Review 44, no. 2 (Winter 2002): 8–24.
- July 2002
- Article
Restoring the Governance Balance
By: William W. George
George, William W. "Restoring the Governance Balance." Director's Monthly (July 2002).
- Article
On Balance: A CFO Interview
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "On Balance: A CFO Interview." CFO 17, no. 2 (February 2001): 72–78.
- 1986
- Book
Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending
By: Dutch Leonard
Leonard, Dutch. Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending. Basic Books, 1986.
- March 2007
- Article
Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords
By: Benjamin Edelman, Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz
We investigate the "generalized second-price" auction (GSP), a new mechanism used by search engines to sell online advertising. Although GSP looks similar to the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism, its properties are very different. Unlike the VCG mechanism, GSP... View Details
Edelman, Benjamin, Michael Ostrovsky, and Michael Schwarz. "Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords." American Economic Review 97, no. 1 (March 2007): 242–259. (Winner of the 2013 Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science from the Game Theory Society - for "the best paper at the interface of game theory and computer science in the last decade." Winner of the 2018 SIGecom Test of Time Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on E-Commerce - for "an influential paper or series of papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago that has significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and computation.")
- March 2003
- Article
Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
Rivkin, Jan W., and Nicolaj Siggelkow. "Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design." Management Science 49, no. 3 (March 2003): 290–311.
- March 2010
- Article
Matching with Preferences over Colleagues Solves Classical Matching
In this note, we demonstrate that the problem of "many-to-one matching with (strict) preferences over colleagues" is actually more difficult than the classical many-to-one matching problem, "matching without preferences over colleagues." We give an explicit reduction... View Details
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Matching with Preferences over Colleagues Solves Classical Matching." Games and Economic Behavior 68, no. 2 (March 2010): 773–780.
- January 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Technical Note
Ethical Analysis: Honesty and Self-Interest
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Christopher Diak
Information asymmetry is pervasive in business and can often confer great advantage. This note distinguishes forms of deceptive behavior in the face of information asymmetry and aims to help students analyze their impermissibility. View Details
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Christopher Diak. "Ethical Analysis: Honesty and Self-Interest." Harvard Business School Technical Note 323-067, January 2023. (Revised November 2023.)