Decision Rules - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

credit analysts exhibit a sizable partisan gap in their economic outlook, with roughly two-thirds the size of the gap observed among households. This bias affects analysts’ decision to upgrade or downgrade corporate credit ratings,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

that some of the hardest leadership decisions are the ones that have moral or ethical stakes. For example, while on the board of a nonprofit, I was approached by an employee—a whistleblower—who accused the program director of manipulating... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

28 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

incentivized to produce safer products to help them manage risk” “When physicians are under pressure from high liability, innovators are incentivized to produce safer products to help them manage risk,” says Hong Luo, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

strategic environment for transnational business. These informal rules and bargains include the political coalitions that sustain globalization and the dynamics of international business in different contexts of economic and political... View Details

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

the result “By changing the design, by changing the rules of the game, we can change the results that the system’s incented to deliver,” said Gehl. “We don’t just have to be frustrated about it, there are things that can be done.” One... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions, including capital structure and repatriation. Perhaps, the biggest... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Reflections on the Peek Weekend Family Business Cohort

initiated important dialogue. If you are thinking about applying to the Family Business cohort, I would highly encourage you to speak to your family members about the family business. Specifically, I suggest focusing on how decisions are... View Details

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways forces within capitalism itself might create... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

and a real appraisal of what makes a good company. How have new regulations addressed the problems you describe? There was a need to tighten up the rules across the board, and that’s been done. In the accounting industry, we have the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new technologies evolve, specifying View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

nurtured in different educational and institutional settings. The question, then, is this: does China have a good institutional framework for innovation? Our answer at present is no: the governance structures of Chinese state-owned enterprises and universities still... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexican history, he found a common thread running through the country's various shifts of power: reliance on a third party to enforce the rules (such as property rights) that make it possible to do business. A Stake In The Game Porfirio... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign-to-sovereign transactions. Specifically, we show (i) international capital flows net of government debt are positively... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

Summing Up In state capitalism, is the operative word "capitalism"? State capitalism is neither to be applauded nor feared, judging from the tone of responses to this month's column. That is, "as long as the key decisions... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

interviewed share one habit: they refuse to make decisions for the entrepreneurs. Otherwise, their teaching methods vary tremendously. Learning by Doing When Michael Chiarello, founder and CEO of NapaStyle, was developing the idea for his... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

balance internal resources. On the one hand, they need to focus some of their people on continually improving and growing the core business. On the other hand, they must free others to break all the rules in the name of growth and... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

market's growth that is the primary driver of profit margins and sales growth. A few retailers have succeeded in going global by developing strategies that apply four retail-specific rules for globalization. View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

through his own leadership of the meeting. The purpose of these rules was to introduce new standards of interpersonal behavior and, in the process, to combat several dysfunctional routines. One serious test of Levy's ability to reinforce... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

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