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- 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
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Kaplan says. Implemented in the right way, such a sustainable ecosystem wouldn’t be a one-time handout to check the CSR box for the year, but a long-term solution to making companies a positive force in the communities in which they operate. “It doesn’t require a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
parameters, which must be learned from sales data. In the presence of these unknown demand parameters, the retailer faces a tradeoff commonly referred to as the exploration-exploitation tradeoff. Towards the beginning of the selling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
studies to demonstrate how researchers can easily implement our two-dimensional evaluative framework. Overall, our findings support the trend towards characteristic-based ERPs. We also document a tradeoff between time-series and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
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
- 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
- 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
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
cost of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the relationship lasts too long. For commodified goods and services, this tradeoff can be the primary determinant of the duration of supply contracts. I develop a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
exploring how to automate access to some of the video interviews. It’s trickier than we thought but we’re making progress. So far, it still seems simpler to manually extract relevant quotes since the software for automating this is too expensive (and still unreliable).... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
about leaders when leaders do four things: (i) Explicitly acknowledge the tension among multiple aims. Sometimes values bump up against one another—consider the cases in which leaders need to manage tradeoffs between maximizing profits... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
the organization we actually want to have a leader that’s less risk averse willing to take on these risks to innovate,” Minor says. Maybe there’s a tradeoff here to consider, he continues. “As you get someone who’s much more willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
assumptions, so that correcting for the former-a primary focus of the ICC literature-is insufficient by itself. From these findings, I argue that the choice between ICCs and realized returns involves a tradeoff between bias and efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity
Life & Leadership After HBS Tradeoffs & Time Limits: Work & Life for Dual-Career Families Juggling responsibilities at home and work is challenging for both men and women, particularly those parenting young children. Drawing on the most... View Details