Balance - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

any entrepreneur looking to build a business around an unconventional product that elicits multiple reactions: How do you balance fun and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? Clocky... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

period we are in today, had witnessed a dramatic loss of confidence in business and American institutions more generally. In 1968, 70 percent of the public thought business tried to strike a fair balance between profits and the public... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

character of the game. If a batter is good enough, he will find a way to hit around a shift. It’s up to each batter to earn his own hits. That idea is basically inflating batting averages artificially. Separately, the more balanced... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

23 May 2018
News

Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

admitting that balancing her career and family takes work. Although Harris is brimming with confidence, she is not one to brag. Her life’s remarkable trajectory—including being the subject of an HBS case study and authoring two... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

much like core emotions, each deep metaphor may take many different forms. For example, balance may involve social, psychological, physical, and aesthetic themes. The small number of deep metaphors, each with many variations, and often... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

Khanna: There are many reasons why you can have the rug pulled out from under your feet in developing countries. You have capricious behavior on the parts of opportunistic people, if there are no checks and balances to prevent them from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Timing - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Feedback Sample Class Case method teaching involves a delicate balance between organization and guidance on the one hand, and flexibility and responsiveness on the other. For each class session, experienced case instructors typically... View Details

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

+1.617.495.6226. Application Review: To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

environment. We are both really proud to be each other’s partners. Also, sharing what we learned from the day when we get home. It has led to lots of great debates! What’s the biggest challenge about being at HBS? We are lucky to be involved in two sections. But the... View Details

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

Portrait Project

Ratnika Prasad

life to balancing public mandates with the realities of environmental conservation. For me, climate change was a reality we lived with, experienced in wildly fluctuating rains that flooded my house, turbulent storms that eroded roads, and... View Details

January 2020
Case

Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal

In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details

Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America

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Educators

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October 2007
Article

The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital

By: Michael D. Kimbrough

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details

Keywords: Information; Value Creation; Fair Value Accounting; Research and Development; Financial Statements; Capital

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September 2023
Case

Derek Aguirre

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman

Derek Aguirre is the executive director of a nonprofit organization in Detroit, Michigan that uses the sport of squash as a vehicle to support young people in low-income urban areas. The case discusses his path to pursue meaningful work and his reflections on the... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Happiness; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Business Startups; Sports; Education; Mission and Purpose; Education Industry; Sports Industry; Service Industry; United States; Boston; Detroit

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Educators

01 Oct 1997
News

L.E. Simmons

offer them sounds almost like something his own father might have recommended: "Pick your partners carefully, be patient, and realize that your reputation, not your balance sheet, is your most important asset." View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

boss make a difference? Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman have written about "how to manage around a weakness" not by changing people but by balancing "the strengths and weaknesses of each individual." What have been... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Portrait Project

Aman Kumar

for those who don't. There are two options: forge ahead, or pause and rest. Life is a fragile balance of both, managing energy as well as time, drawing inward in order to dispense outward. I wish for myself equanimity and peace alongside... View Details

Article

Big Ideas Feature: Time for Happiness: Why the Pursuit of Money Isn't Bringing You Joy—and What Will

By: A.V. Whillans

Adam (real story, fake name) was a good employee who was given a plum project he believed could get him a promotion and a raise. Taking it seemed like the proverbial no-brainer: Work hard, nail the assignment, get more pay. He knew he’d have to put in long days and... View Details

Keywords: Time; Privilege; Guilt; Money; Happiness; Work-Life Balance

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16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

and set an aggressive goal to repay the full balance within 4 years of graduating. I am on-track to reach that goal. Is there any advice you would like to share with prospective or current HBS students regarding loans or debt repayment?... View Details

October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

By: Francois Brochet

This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details