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- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
military casualties? If it releases what is construed by the public as sanitized data, will citizens view the site cynically? Customer needs: As business people, some class participants wanted to see a clearly outlined customer perspective defining customer needs.... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
selling season. As common in practice, we assume the demand function contains unknown parameters, which must be learned from sales data. In the presence of these unknown demand parameters, the retailer faces a tradeoff commonly referred... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose
edge” to serve multiple stakeholders. Leaders committed to deep purpose realize that there must sometimes be painful tradeoffs as they struggle to balance the needs of customers, employees, partners, shareholders, and society. This means... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
possible that it was not a major impediment to overall technological progress, given the pace of innovation at the time.” “There should be further research to determine whether that’s a serious cost or not,” he continues. “What it does show is that there’s a View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
studies to check on shifts in price elasticities of demand and price-attribute tradeoffs can usefully improve the profitability of pricing decisions at a time when cash is king. Keep an eye on the new consumer. No one has a perfect record... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community
of course, classes such as The Entrepreneurial Manager, Founder’s Journey, and Venture Capital & Private Equity helped me understand not only business decisions, but also the personal life and tradeoffs that come with the journey. Our... View Details
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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
contending with this challenge, the designer of an incentive system—or someone trying to motivate themselves—faces an important tradeoff between inducing high levels of motivation and inducing the right types of behavior. All incentive... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’
our top ideas. Our final report will include qualitative and quantitative analyses to support our recommendations, as well as detailed action planning with key tradeoffs and considerations. We are still weeks away from our final... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
public sector is dynamic, generating possibilities that neither sector alone could create. Reconciling social equity and economic justice with the profit motive continues to be one of our world’s greatest challenges, and my studies helped me make sense of these age-old... 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
- 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
- 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
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
or less important (because) customers had no sense when it came to entertaining tradeoffs (between features and cost)." Phil Clark commented that, regardless of method or purpose, "It is important to know your customers better than they... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
for leaders who want to make wise decisions, rather than simply beat the other party. Which would you prefer? Most people choose Option A—the benefits of the tradeoff are quite clear. Yet the U.S. government, yielding to what... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 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
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
imperiled the achievement of the other. Q: What impact do the tradeoffs between these two core motivators have on resources? A: As I delved into the tradeoff, I realized that the conflict usually emerges at the point where entrepreneurs... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
that the tradeoff between scale and friction is complex. For example, what effect does a company's origins, its beliefs, and how these are reflected in management behaviors (reflected in Walmart's emphasis on "family") reduce... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
study participant. "There's a [perception] that there's a tradeoff between serving the needs of the organizations and doing rigorous research," Beshears said. "But the organization you're working with doesn't know the answer, either. You... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
services in-house? Are there cost benefits, and do they depend on size? A: Previous research has shown that advertising agency operations are subject to economies of scale, and hence the advertiser faces a major tradeoff in choosing... View Details