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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
incorporating intellectual property concerns and “technoeconomic” forecasting Articulate paths to market and business models while accounting for tough tech value chains and competition Explore and negotiate strategic partnerships and investments Analyze the tough tech... View Details
- 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
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
cost/quality tradeoff for a Michelin-starred restaurant," said Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the lead author of the HBS case study Chef Davide Oldani and... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
that this tradeoff is shifted towards the reseller-mode when marketing activities create spillovers across products and when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation. If the reseller has a variable... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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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
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
lessons about choices and tradeoffs are about more than money—and even more powerful. "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang.'" Her passion needed a... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
a permanent reality in corporate boardrooms—whether or not executives have a deep-seated passion for the social issues involved. Expectations are changing, agreed panelists. Oil corporations, for example, are well versed in the standard View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
"So here, fifty years before Virginia Woolf would write A Room of One's Own, is a room of our own, an income of our own, and time of our own." From the start, she added, women made implicit and explicit tradeoffs when they left... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) - Course Catalog
decisions and tradeoffs across different areas of my life? How do I use my time on a daily and weekly basis? How do I create and change habits that enable me to continue making progress towards the life that I want? How do I think about... 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
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
wrote the paper with Raviv Murciano-Goroff, an assistant professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and Ran Zhuo, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The tradeoffs of software... 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
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
to corn prices, but at the expense of exposure to the oil market." Risky Bet On Oil With oil prices currently at record levels, that doesn't seem like such a bad tradeoff to make. But Reinhardt points out that we've seen this story... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
such a bad tradeoff to make. But Reinhardt points out that we’ve seen this story before. “In the 1970s, we said that prices would never go down again, and they did,” he remarks. “Will demand from India and China change the equation?... View Details
- 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
the fact that it must change systems and not just build more programs if it is to solve what they refer to as the “Opportunity Divide.” It leads me to reflect about the tradeoffs between different levers of change, be them in the private... View Details
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Patrick Chun
series that require serious tradeoffs between budgets, audiences, and mindshare. For me, it's led to interesting questions about how to think about who you are serving, and how to take feedback, namely when to give in and when to hold a... View Details