Balance and Stability - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

time to get all of their people together, so the meetings kept getting delayed and delayed,” he says. “The intent of these processes is often good, but the results are not. You have to walk a fine line and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

everything else in business, grown more complex in the age of the global economy. In fact, according to some observers, the implied balance between its two component parts may be tilting increasingly askew, even as the world's economy... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

to do with the innate nature of the product itself, the features built into it. And if you start with a product that does well on these five factors, then life gets a lot easier. Stefan Thomke How can a company View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

November – December 2008
Article

Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?

By: Anette Mikes

Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

the automotive industry: the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) and the rise of software-defined vehicles (SDVs). Within three years, he had turned the company around through his ambitious “Renaulution” strategy, which View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes more complicated, demanding... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

2019
Working Paper

Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

By: Malcolm S. Salter

In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

balanced against the uncertainty around the government's emissions targets for Hurtigruten's fleet, and customers' desire for sustainable tourism. Keywords: Energy Sources ; Alternative Energy ; Renewable... View Details

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

in that job control to accomplish a task? This list of resources may include people, budgets, and balance sheets. “Just imagine you are looking to take a job somewhere and they... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

STRUCTURE Groups meet monthly, at a location of their choosing, to talk about their lives in an atmosphere of intimacy and trust. Meeting structure and topics of discussion vary greatly from group to group,... View Details

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

the startup approaches its “fume date” —when its bank balance hits zero. In parallel, the founder will probably start to lay off employees, deciding how deeply to cut. And this is just the prelude to a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Oct 2022
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Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

(iStockphoto/SolStock) The COVID-19 pandemic changed the ways we worked, the ways we shopped, and the ways we interacted with others. It fostered some businesses—online selling, meeting services, and home... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

financial strength, increasing annual revenues to $12 billion while reducing costs. A $3.6 billion fundraising campaign further strengthened its balance sheet. With the help of a skilled team of physician leaders View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

Setting the right sales targets for employees is a difficult balancing act, with long-term consequences on growth and morale. Setting a target too low, making it easily achievable, might cause an an employee... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Rachel H Chung

belief in my ambitions and ability but always reminded me to find balance and joy in anything I pursue. Even though she is not with us anymore, her love View Details

07 Oct 2020
Blog Post

7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club

to be fully out and queer, but letting go of that fear has been a process. After college I worked conservative industries, like oil & gas and logistics, and I struggled... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

friend, more workers are scaling back, stepping away, or choosing alternative professional opportunities that help them balance these demands. Companies that ignore this emerging crisis risk losing their hardest-to-find View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

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Events - Business History

Groups: Comparisons across Developed Countries Ben Schneider, MIT Oct 30 30 Oct 2017 Business History Seminar Decoding the Balance Sheet: Material Objects, Symbolic Capital, and the Liquidation of the League... View Details

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Public Education Leadership Project

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 students served, View Details

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