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  • 23 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 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
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Faculty Research Symposium

powerful and beneficial incentive effects, Hall discussed the challenges and tradeoffs involved in designing equity-based pay plans. For example, option pay is sometimes falsely viewed as “costless” to the company and therefore leads to... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

we fail to recognize that people consider many factors and make complex tradeoffs before making a decision. “Clinton voters didn’t consider that some Trump supporters actually may have voted for him in spite of—rather than because of—his... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

tradeoffs implying deprivation or loss. Women struggle just as men do, she said, in figuring out what they want to create and what their platinum standards are. "We have as much of a struggle, in fact, as men do. We are really in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

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
  • 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
  • 29 May 2012
  • First Look

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
  • 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
  • 13 Oct 2016
  • News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

20 years to get where we are,” shares Blum, “but the tradeoff is that today we have several very promising therapies that are in late-stage trials.” One of those therapies is tirasemtiv, the drug in the Phase 3 trial that is being funded,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 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
  • 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
  • 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

primitives encourages substitutability of agents’ preferences over contracts and makes stable outcomes more likely to exist; however, bundling also makes the contractual language less expressive. Consequently, in choosing contract language, market designers face a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

conditions that firms face; and the increased scale of activities fostered by global participation. The text examines how these phenomena create tensions and tradeoffs for executives concerning which product to offer around the world,... View Details