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  • 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
  • 01 Jul 2014
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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
  • 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
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

board levels. It explores whether this tension exists both at the level of the individual entrepreneur's financial gains and at the level of the overall venture's value, and also whether entrepreneurs can avoid the tradeoff by building... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2017
  • News

Seeing a Way Forward

opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 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
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

Abstract—Operational decisions under information asymmetry can signal a firm's prospects to less-informed parties, such as investors, customers, competitors, and regulators. Consequently, managers in these settings often face a tradeoff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has traditionally possessed a strong presence in Brazil. Describes Bunge's tradeoff between efficiency of global operations and local responsiveness in an uncertain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

sides of land use proposals. This case demonstrates the dilemmas and tradeoffs related to private land owner rights and the role of government in seeking positive outcomes for broader society. Case students will rigorously look at issues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

products survive in equilibrium, even with competition. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-055.pdf Got Local Food? Authors:Baris Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Abstract We study the operational tradeoffs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

have become quite influential and controversial in the technology industries they touch. The goal of this paper is to shed light on the role and efficiency tradeoffs of these new patent intermediaries. Finally, we offer a provisional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in process improvement programs has not... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

established the issues and highlighted some of the tradeoffs to set the tone for the rest of the course. The course benefitted greatly from a deep bench of excellent class guests and speakers, representing a range of approaches to climate... View Details
  • 23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016

substitutability of agents’ preferences over contracts and makes stable outcomes more likely to exist; however, bundling also makes the contractual language less expressive. Consequently, we see that, in choosing contract language, market designers face a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

South Africa. He noted that his country's aim is to have a stable, democratic government like those found in the United States and Europe, but he presented the tradeoffs that must be made before such a goal can be achieved. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

to win. Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2211700   Working PapersDelegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing Authors:McElheran, Kristina Abstract Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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