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  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

attempts at managing these ”strategic paradoxes” fail because they’re not managed carefully and consistently. (It’s easy to write a great purpose statement or to dream up a new business model but way more difficult to follow through when it’s time to make actual View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

primitives encourages substitutability of agents’ preferences over contracts and makes stable outcomes more likely to exist; however, bundling also makes the contractual language less expressive. Consequently, in choosing contract language, market designers face a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

technologies to drive experiments and make decisions more centrally. The note highlights important tradeoffs in achieving control and maintaining flexibility across multiple units. It describes how some companies mitigate some of these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of equity—the beta anomaly—generates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

proposed organizational designs and presents the arguments within Merrimack's leadership team for and against each. It highlights the tradeoffs associated with each design as they relate to accountability, efficiency, innovation, product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0461 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing By: McElheran, Kristina Steffenson Abstract—Recent contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

control and order processing, particularly the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized inventories. Students must complete a quantitative analysis of the costs and benefits of several alternatives. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2009
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The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

government taxes incomes, it discourages people from working as hard as they otherwise would have worked. This is what generates the classic tradeoff in tax policy: The more equally you try to slice the economic pie, the smaller it gets.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of decision making. I develop hypotheses about this tradeoff and test the hypotheses on a unique dataset of 6,130 American startups. I find that startups in which the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

The decision point of the case is whether Blue should participate in the third, much larger and more complex, stage of CCDev. The tradeoff facing Blue’s leadership was between the legitimacy, expertise, and funding provided by working... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

volatility, whereas shadow banks tend to hold relatively liquid assets. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/banks_20150305_FINAL.pdf March 2015 Production and Operations Management Managing the Performance Tradeoffs from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
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The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less expensive solutions for customers... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

many tradeoffs Barge must make in balancing the benefits of the former organization with those of the new structure to achieve the firm's strategic goal of becoming more customer-solutions oriented. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

and innovation need not be strategic tradeoffs and highlight the substantive role of senior teams in building dynamic capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-088WP.pdf Organizational Designs and Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2007
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Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

and the development of incremental tradeoffs towards radical moves to create new business models, new forms of satisfying needs that drastically reduce costs and/or raise value perceived by customers. One important enabler of new business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

dilemmas-challenging decisions that feature tradeoffs between competing and seemingly incompatible values. Moral insight consists of discovering solutions that move beyond selecting one conflicting ethical option over another. Moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

provide. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market participants. Consumers benefit from providing information to the firm, as this increases the utility they derive from the service, but they incur... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information to provide it with. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market participants.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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