Stability - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14360 Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Abstract We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with contracts... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: Deciding about "Megadeals"

By: Anette Mikes

Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in a corporate finance business. Chief executive Alastair Dowes has to decide if the risk governance process is adequate to uncover mega-risks... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation; Credit; Balance and Stability; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Offer; Performance Effectiveness; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry

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23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

can help companies establish a competitive advantage over time. Investors as Stewards of the Commons?With long enough time horizons and significant common ownership of companies within the same industry or supply chain, investors could serve as vehicles for the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

01 Jan 2008
News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

decisions managers must make.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Spend at least as much time focusing on people as you do on numbers.” ON LEADERSHIP “Too many of our leaders fail to translate macroeconomic trends into human experience. Increasing worldwide poverty is having a... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

extreme volatility as Bitcoin, and does volatility impede transactional utility? In other words, can Bitcoin really function as a “currency”? — Jay Precourt (MBA 1962) Bitcoin has been volatile, though it has had periods of stability (in... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

July 2006
Article

Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat

This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details

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14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

Manager for three years. His next step was back into the corporate world to provide stability for his growing family. “I joined SAP and was promoted seven times in ten years eventually leading the entire Latin American team,” Dzodan said.... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

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

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

among those who think they have nothing to lose. Western governments have also come to appreciate that the world's financial system, which came close to meltdown on several occasions in the 1990s, depends on political stability to sustain... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

18 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

map of New York to drive in Los Angeles. As examples, the authors cite the ongoing movement for a U.S. balanced budget amendment; the IMF's use of the deficit to assess fiscal prudence; the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to limit U.S. deficits; and the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

well-established firms rather than young ones. Since well-established firms differ from young ones in their availability of resources, adaptability, and stability in the face of changing environments, the findings from those studies are... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

artistic; Enhancing educational opportunities through the arts, about the arts, and in the arts; Increasing the stability of arts institutions and their capacity to serve the public; Promoting and encouraging other government agencies to... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

improved job training and relocation incentives for workers, he sees a future of continued market expansion, business profitability, greater social equality, and the increased social stability that this can produce. Kuttner argues that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2012
News

Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

venture and the founding team, putting that early split into disarray and imperiling the team. Splitting equity early can be valuable in maintaining team stability when a venture is just launching, but devising a static split doesn’t... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

to distinguish between the effects of anticipated versus experienced downsizing as the event rippled through the firm's various work groups. Surprisingly, it was anticipated downsizing that proved more demoralizing to the creative process." In addition, work... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

someday play a major role in stabilizing the climate. Our episodes provided an overview of the landscape and conducted deep dives into some technology- and nature-based solutions. These proved to be among the most challenging topics to... View Details

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