Publications

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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January 1993 (Revised April 1993)
Case

Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan

The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten years to bring a new product to the marketplace and the division depends on good relations and active feedback from its... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Performance Evaluation; Customer Relationship Management; Goals and Objectives; Customer Satisfaction; Research and Development; Marketplace Matching; Financial Condition; Product Launch; Pharmaceutical Industry

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

Article

Market Structure, Oligopoly and the Stability of Market Shares

By: R. E. Caves and M. E. Porter

Keywords: Markets; Price; Economics

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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

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

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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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

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

2023
Working Paper

Channeled Attention and Stable Errors

By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein

We develop a framework for assessing when somebody will eventually notice that she has a misspecified model of the world, premised on the idea that she neglects information that she deems—through the lens of her misconceptions—to be irrelevant. In doing so, we... View Details

Keywords: Attentional Stability; Cognition and Thinking; Attitudes; Information; Theory

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February 2009 (Revised August 2010)
Case

Saudi Arabia: Modern Reform, Enduring Stability

By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Nicole Michele Forrest

This case, along with “Dubai: Global Economy” (709-043), provides an opportunity to discuss Saudi Arabia's efforts to modernize, without really Westernizing, in sharp contrast to Dubai, a nearby Arab Emirate. As Saudi Arabia's development strategy unfolds in the past... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government and Politics; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia; Dubai; Middle East

Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

that credit growth dynamics and bank lending channels vary across these loan types using credit-registry data for Spain and Peru. The effects of monetary policy propagating through banks’ View Details

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

Oct 14 2014
Short Film

The Explainer: The Balanced Scorecard

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

Article

The Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting Process

By: Jerry R. Green

The core is the set of all unblocked allocations. Implicit in this definition is the idea that if an allocation is proposed which could be blocked, some coalition will form and issue a counterproposal which it can enforce. A process of successive counterproposals based... View Details

Keywords: Game Theory; Economics