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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
Implementing Strategy. "There's the question of profit and growth versus control, for instance, or short-term results versus long-term capabilities. Managers today are involved in a very delicate balancing act." A proponent of the... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is created when design decisions that are expedient in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System By: Sunderam, Adi Abstract—Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on money demand. This paper asks whether the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
CEO and his team. Q: What caused the failure of Alpha's first attempt at a customer service initiative in the early 1990s? A: Initially, the first CSE [Customer Service Enhancements] initiative was not a failure. It did lead to some View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
HBS provides students with financial assistance from classroom to career. SUPPORTING STUDENTS The School provides similar opportunities to MBA students interested in exploring careers during the summer in sectors that don’t traditionally offer sufficient compensation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
competitor analysis, trend research, and leadership programs. Since then, the team has helped Granite Equity research individual company profiles, whether it’s for an acquisition or a vendor or a potential partner. The service also has helped make long-term strategic... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
foreign investment, and community stability,” explains Raji, who was born in Nigeria. “My short-term response to the outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations involved in the Ebola relief effort.... View Details
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
have to learn, some organizations may still lean toward this model. "Clearly there are some benefits to tighter control. If your goal is control and minimizing risk, that's going to perform well because people will stick to the script," Campbell says. "If you see each... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
acquisition as the biggest challenge. But lacking a CM strategy and able to respond to only short-term financial pressures, most organizations do an inadequate job of selection, retention, and growth. For many years, Mobil pursued a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
are in the midst of what is often described as a gold rush. Is there any danger that firms will fly so high that they may spin out of control? A: The book is built around a number of the tensions that are inherent in all businesses — profit and growth versus control,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
over the world participating in short-term consulting projects that add value to our global company partners and help students build skills in teamwork, international business, leadership, and market analysis. G – GO: Africa. Beginning... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
capacity for warehousing, packing, and—possibly—molding. But what if demand never came despite the expense? LEGO's director of strategic risk management, Hans Laessøe, pointed out the uncertainty of even short-term global demand... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
future. “At the time, I was struggling with where my career was heading and in particular where corporate thinking and leadership were heading on a global scale,” he recalls. “I was becoming more and more disillusioned with working for a nameless, faceless shareholder,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
frequently entails short-terms risks in order to create societal value. "Our analysis suggests that most companies rarely coordinate among the three theatres, let alone recognize the contributions of each to societal well-being," write... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
(about Martin Luther King Jr.). Savvy From The Start U2's business savvy in the earliest days serves as a lesson for any MBA student. In an industry notorious for its focus on short-term hits and for taking control of an artist's work and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
older alumni. “We don’t have to wait 40 years to realize these were missed opportunities; simply asking people to anticipate their long-term rather than short-term regrets motivated them to feel less guilty about taking a vacation.”... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
can be found in: (1) discovery, the challenge of adventure and innovation characterized by dot-com entrepreneurs willing to work 24/7 in search of the new or unknown, (2) excellence, in which high standards are not compromised for View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
present systemic risks because they have limited sources of short-term liquidity: commercial paper and repurchase agreements. Banks with securities powers can also obtain short-term financing through Fed... View Details