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- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
contingent ways that a corporate risk function can foster highly interactive and intrusive dialogues to surface and prioritize risks, help to allocate resources to mitigate them, and bring clarity to the value trade-offs and moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
virtues of vertical integration with the flexibility of sourcing. Such arrangements are increasingly discussed in the operations literature and in practice. This case provides students an opportunity to do an in-depth analysis of such an arrangement and develop an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and profit maximizing, yet asymmetric, payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 show that people... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
There will be a tax to long-term shareholder value, but the trade-off is that it might elevate our societies. In India, for instance, the Companies Act requires Indian companies to spend 2 percent of their profits on corporate social... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
Williams, who struggles with the challenge of steering his second startup, Odeo, without having board support for his decisions. Achieving The Entrepreneurial Ideal "Each of these entrepreneurs has had to give up something that really matters to them—a View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
switch jobs, the trade-offs required for success, and the hidden power of your random LinkedIn connections. Ethan Bernstein and Michael Horn READ MORE Dan Morrell: Michael, what is it about the moment we're in right now—tail of the Great... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
for Firm Heterogeneity, Predicting Firm-Specific Coefficients, and Estimating Strategy Trade-Offs By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Although Strategy research aims to understand how firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
Mobilization By: Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri Abstract—Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
morning meetings. Business was first, but the families were all there as well. Saturdays were business and family affairs. Q: Why has governance evolved that way among some of these firms? A: It is smart management in good part. They see the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
of multinationals from developed countries in developing countries. The central argument is that strategies were shaped by the trade-off between opportunity and risk. Three broad environmental factors determined the trade-off. The first... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
with this eternal conundrum. Easy Rider Martin Snoey (MBA ’72) Age: 61 Home: Mercer Island, Washington “My sense is that life is not a simple sequence of events,” says Martin Snoey. “Instead, it’s a continual trade-off among career,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
both things—there are trade-offs that we didn't expect," says Teixeira. "You need to understand what you want the consumer to do." If advertisers are primarily selling in brick-and-mortar locations with traditional... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
role of financial intermediaries. In the private equity setting, institutional investors are increasingly eschewing intermediaries in favor of direct investments. To understand the trade-offs in this setting, we compile a proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
trade-off decisions he must make in managing through the current period. He is preparing for a meeting with his board of trustees where he plans to discuss the current situation and the key decisions the organization needs to make.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
distinct groups while creating "spaces of negotiation"-areas of interaction that allow members of each group to discuss the trade-offs they face. We conclude by highlighting the conditions under which spaces of negotiation can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
long as possible because they know fruitful integration can occur only after people have devoted sufficient time to debating options or testing them through trial and error. They also refuse to make trade-offs or accept compromises that... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
For years an important debate has been raging in the social investing community about the potential of social purpose companies to deliver satisfactory returns to investors. The conventional wisdom is that capital providers should expect some View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
shook hands before integrative negotiations obtained higher joint outcomes (Studies 2a and 2b). Pairs randomly assigned to shake hands were more likely to openly reveal their preferences on trade-off issues, which improved joint outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne