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11 Oct 2022
News

On Balance

Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) recalls a job interview early in her career in which the interviewer asked, “Why should I employ you? At your age, you’re just going to go off and have children.” At another position, she recruited a younger man... View Details

Keywords: April White

November 1999
Article

Why Governments Implement Temporary Stabilization Programs

By: Laura Alfaro

Keywords: Government and Politics

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2023
Article

Balancing Risk and Reward: An Automated Phased Release Strategy

By: Yufan Li, Jialiang Mao and Iavor Bojinov

Phased releases are a common strategy in the technology industry for gradually releasing new products or updates through a sequence of A/B tests in which the number of treated units gradually grows until full deployment or deprecation. Performing phased releases in a... View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Mathematical Methods; Product Development

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February 2010
Case

Burt's Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability (Multimedia)

By: Christopher Marquis

The case examines sustainability initiatives at Burt's Bees, with video segments that detail the company's history, leadership, and implementation of ambitious 2020 sustainability goals. The company traces its roots to 1984, when Roxanne Quinby and Burt Schavitz teamed... View Details

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Mergers and Acquisitions; Social Enterprise; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ethics

May 2019
Teaching Note

Elon Musk: Balancing Purpose and Risk

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-040. View Details

September 1986
Article

On the Strategic Stability of Equilibria

By: Elon Kohlberg and Jean Francois Mertens

Keywords: Strategy; Balance and Stability

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24 Apr 2014
News

Balancing business goals and social benefits

Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, talks about the social and business benefits of teaching more than 3 million children to use computers. (Published April 2014) View Details

January 2005 (Revised June 2005)
Background Note

Reading the Balance of Payments

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.

Describes the construction of the balance of payments and defines frequently used measures taken from the balance of payments. View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Accounting

27 Mar 2023
News

Striking the Balance Between Profits and Purpose

01 Mar 2012
News

Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech

Narayanan, the Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Accounting and Management Unit. Called the Balanced Scorecard Game, the complex... View Details

Keywords: Professor V.G. Narayanan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

December 1984 (Revised May 1998)
Teaching Note

Kennedy and the Balance of Payments; Balance of Payments: Accounting and Presentation; Kennedy and the Balance of Payments, Exercise Worksheet; & Answers, Teaching Note

By: David B. Yoffie

Teaching Note for (9-383-073), (9-384-005), (9-384-006), and (9-385-243). View Details

Keywords: United States

08 May 2015
News

Promoting work/life balance

As U.S. Secretary of Labor, The Hon. Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979) helped American workers address the competing demands of their work and home lives. (Published May 2015) View Details

September 2014
Case

Balanced Scorecard at Delta/Signal Corp.

By: V.G. Narayanan

This auto parts company has just ousted its longtime CEO and founder, and the new, professional CEO is badly in need of a coherent strategy, clear objectives and metrics, and initiatives that are aligned with the strategy and objectives. Will the balanced scorecard... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Business Strategy; Financial Reporting; Leading Change; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Web Services Industry; Auto Industry

August 1977 (Revised February 1981)
Background Note

Introduction to Balance of Payments Analysis

By: Bruce R. Scott

Minimal background to permit interpretation of positive or negative balances in the key summary accounts of a balance of payments statement; also to permit relating these balances and relevant supporting detail to a possible national development strategy. Designed for... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Development Economics; Planning; Accounting Industry; Canada