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- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
Stone Herman, and I'm class of 1997. My professor, Carl Sloan, who was our lead professor, gave the advice that you will probably achieve greater monetary and overall career success than you initially thought possible, but you'll have to make some View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
think that's a valid argument in 2013." Descriptions of life after HBS reveal a stubborn consistency from 1962 to 2012: the reality that women continue to bear the brunt of work-family trade-off decisions. And classroom discussions in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
every corner, especially once you start looking for them. Too often leaders get stuck in the balance between option A or B, trapped by the trade-offs inherent in either/or thinking. A both/and approach to problem-solving, by contrast, can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Career Wanted
transition to a new career for a variety of reasons. “Goals that seemed fitting for a particular job or stage in one’s life may not have as much significance later on,” Sullivan observes. Career-changers should consider trade-offs... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
have big parts to play. That can be positive. It will be difficult and it will involve lots of complicated trade-offs and wrenching decisions, but nonetheless, we need a lot more than hunkering down and hoping we get through. Nancy Koehn... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
RS: Absolutely. And hopefully these new models will dispel the idea that there is a trade-off between providing excellent care and actually making money. There may be a sense that it has to be one or the other, but that is not always... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. The course equips students to better handle the choices, surprises, and trade-offs that they will inevitably face in the years after graduation. “It’s not about creating a rigid... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
flexibility over almost anything else. How do those trade-offs factor into the decision-making? Wu: As we look broadly at Gen Z and the younger generations entering the workforce in the coming years and decade, they prioritize the ability... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
you can learn a lot from those examples. What lessons can we take from the myriad supply-chain challenges of 2020? The resilience-versus-cost trade-off is going to be heavily scrutinized. A resilient supply chain has redundant systems but... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
help grow the brand. “The trade-off was that the investment resulted in their having a majority stake in the company and ultimately taking control of it,” Philp says. “For me it was a positive experience in the sense that we launched a... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
differently while pregnant?” The focus is on practical, actionable recommendations. Risks are put into context so women can make their own choices, aware of the trade-offs they’re actually making. Pursuing Other Opportunities: A Corporate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
consider all of the possible effects that might come out of the process of implementing it—and what might happen if it is not implemented. This then needs to be weighed against what the project will ultimately create, to see if the View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
understood why a sponsor might feel she's a safe investment. And I understood better what her life is like, what the value of time is for her, and what trade-offs she makes. These are not necessarily things you can learn from academic... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
fired, this is what happens if-- there's so many hours they want me to work, blah, blah, blah. But we don't have a similar contract at home. So we come home and we're in a contract-less world, which means that the contract of the first place can often-- like, now I'm... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
renewal process. I was surprised when Kent Bowen approached me about doing a case. We were just a small manufacturer. I didn’t think what I did would be relevant in the classroom. But there were actually quite a few students interested in the practical decisions and... View Details
- 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
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Terwiesch Harvard Business Review Press What if there were a way to turn occasional, sporadic transactions with customers into long-term, continuous relationships—while simultaneously driving dramatic improvements in operational efficiency? What if you could break your... View Details