Tradeoffs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2007
News

Alumni Books

tradeoff between bold commitments rarely leading to success and timid strategies ensuring mere survival. Raynor explains how leaders can resolve the tradeoff and achieve results usually reserved for the few... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50749 The Risk Anomaly Tradeoff of Leverage By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Higher-beta and higher-volatility equities do not earn commensurately higher... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
News

Providing lessons in financial literacy

and personal finance curriculum to 5 million students. “It’s not just that (they) should save money. It’s about learning to make informed decisions, such as ‘should I go to college?’ And what are the tradeoffs for those decisions?” says... View Details

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

Every business leader faces difficult tradeoffs when working to make a company both profitable and purposeful. But leaders who articulate a company’s deep purpose can tap into that broader vision to help them navigate short-term decisions... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe

program. Those new courses will focus heavily on design methods, which by their nature emphasize constraints and tradeoffs that span multiple disciplines. Specifically, launching and leading a technology venture is a design process that... View Details

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

individual securities. Higher returns come only from bearing greater risk. Investing in efficient markets means minimizing transaction costs and choosing maximally diversified portfolios that deliver an optimal tradeoff between risk and... View Details

Business and Society

encouraged us to think about the role and responsibility that business leaders have in shaping society and civilization for the better. Business has a wider responsibility than just making profits, and there are consequences for our business decisions. We must assess... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

From Das’s Desk

especially in those critical first few years after HBS. The course will cover a variety of topics, including: Career navigation. How to establish a path through the transitions and tradeoffs as they move toward their personal definition... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Faculty Q&A: Price Check

There’s a fundamental tradeoff: Should I learn something about demand by offering a price that might be suboptimal, or should I offer the price that I think is optimal now to maximize revenue? Our research shows retailers a way to balance this View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

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War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog

environment or shifting strategic landscape-and develop an appreciation for the humility required to challenge and refine our beliefs, theories, and models. Identify and grapple with inescapable tensions and tradeoffs in strategic... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

and venture capital funds. “The tradeoff in making the decision to go back to an emerging market is so great that you can’t come to it analytically,” says Managing Director Hiran Embuldeniya (MBA 2005), an alum of McKinsey and Goldman... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities

not have microphones find both sides somewhat right. Much of my recent research on tax policy, where the same tradeoffs are at stake, has shown that most people are sympathetic to the logic behind progressive taxes and, simultaneously,... View Details

Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

resolution and negotiation classes concerning how to enlarge the pie. I believe that the mindset of exploring wise tradeoffs is more common in business schools than in law or policy schools, where adversarial relations are too commonly... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

reinforces his conviction that there needn’t be a compromise in finding an intersection between business and social impact. “We too often accept a false tradeoff that in order to do well in the world, whether environmental, socially, or... View Details

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

refers to the types of tradeoffs an assortment demands of a consumer. An alignable assortment is one where products vary along a single dimension—such as size or speed or capacity. Therefore, the tradeoffs... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

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Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) - Course Catalog

analysis to contemporary issues. The cases explore concrete situations that highlight the challenges and tradeoffs of decision-makers. Issues explored include: education, urban development, illegal drugs, rent control, housing, drug... View Details

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

a tradeoff here, in terms of how similar a product will be around the world and what sort of product range a company will offer," Collis says. Will a company allow for local variation and differences in taste, and what will its... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

25 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

changes in incentives for achieving integration. Examining a systemic tradeoff consciously acknowledged by the organization, we further argue that alignment encouraged by this collaborative engagement can be more important than achieving... View Details