Stability - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2011 (Revised May 2012)
Teaching Note

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (TN)

Teaching Note for 211-067. View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Opportunities; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Balance and Stability; Manufacturing Industry

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03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

after a merger." Tony Eckel said, "Properly applied, they are investments in the continuity and stability of the organization." Some were vehement in their opposition. "I view a retention bonus as a sort of blackmail... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

markets, business processes, and organizational structure—and to improve them to achieve growth. Success will depend on leaders who are able to stabilize the company as they identify and exploit opportunities, find new market niches,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Oct 2001
News

Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success

daughter and two stepchildren, he prefers to keep the question open-ended for now and focus on the company's continued growth and stability —a goal that's sure to keep fans of the classic hotdog-and-mustard combo happy for generations to... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1999
News

Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?

involving a number of players that had strong and stabilizing connections with various nonmining quarters of Chilean life, including the financial, industrial, and legal sectors. "Kennecott involved a variety of other parties that it... View Details

Keywords: Anita M. Harris

23 Feb 2016
First Look

February 23, 2016

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50571 February 2016 Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract— We develop a model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

important? Management or leadership? To begin to answer that question, we need to look again at what role each plays. Management ensures the stability and efficiency necessary to run today's enterprise reliably. Leadership creates needed... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

19 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

marginal investor can change over time. We usually think of mutual funds as relatively sophisticated investors, perhaps even exerting a stabilizing influence on price at times when individual investors are going crazy. Unfortunately,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

hit post-war highs in the 1950s but then declined rapidly in ways that overshadow relative stability more recently. Thus, in automobiles, for example, there has been a steady decline in concentration since 1955 as the U.S. share of total... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2014
Working Paper

Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details

Keywords: Fluid Personnel; Team Scaffolds; Team Effectiveness; Role-based Coordination; Multi-method; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Balance and Stability; Health Industry

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01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Climate Finance SIP

wide range of critical topics emphasizing the roles of financial institutions in addressing the risks and opportunities of climate change. Topics included climate and the economy, incorporating climate developments into business analysis and valuation, financial View Details

05 Sep 2024
Blog Post

District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future

Fyn can adjust their production to help stabilize utility pricing for their customers. For instance, if electricity prices are low, the company will produce heat and store it within their storage ponds for use when electricity prices are... View Details

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

consolidation.” “The idea is that when you sleep you stabilize the information you’ve learned,” says Karmarkar. “It’s somewhat like moving information from short-term to long-term storage.” It’s as if you are saving a Word file to your... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

history is chockablock with companies whose potentially risky bets paid off in the long term. "Take DuPont's investment in nylon," she says. "They spent many years stabilizing the process and learning to scale it up. And of course once... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

ensure adequate liquidity. Recall that after New Deal financial regulation was put in place in the 1930s, the country didn’t suffer another major crisis until deregulation commenced nearly fifty years later — by far the longest stretch of financial View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

December 2010
Article

Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado

We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model

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September 2002
Case

Abercrombie & Kent

By: Frances X. Frei, Brian Corbett, Mark Partin and Daniel Rethazy

Describes Abercrombie & Kent, the outdoor adventure company that has provided services throughout the entire history of the outdoor adventure industry. Provides an opportunity to learn how the company successfully grown into a premier player in the industry by adapting... View Details

Keywords: History; Financial Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Service Operations; Marketing Reference Programs; Product Development; Business Growth and Maturation; Balance and Stability; Marketing Channels; Transportation; Growth and Development Strategy; Travel Industry

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September 1995
Case

Ares-Serono

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Ares Serono, a medium-size Swiss pharmaceutical company, is the global leader in the field of fertility drugs. The company has successfully transformed into one of the very few biotech firms in Europe. The case treats a set of major strategic and organizational... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Asset Management; Balance and Stability; Expansion; Digital Platforms; Leadership Development; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Family Business; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Switzerland; Europe

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22 Feb 2022
News

Addressing The Financial Security Gap

initiative helps organizations create short-term financial stability for vulnerable workers and communities. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES Ackerley cites a Pew... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie