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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
these issues. Firms devote more external capital to finance their share repurchases than to avoid regular dividend cuts. Debt is the main source of capital used to externally finance payouts, particularly when credit market conditions are...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
of practical relevance of much of our research might suggest that few of us also have the ambition to improve the decisions of the managers and policymakers whose actions we study” Toffel’s paper serves as a call to arms for scholars to...
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
10:00–11:15 a.m. EDT + More Info – Less Info Corporate scandals remain a threat to organizations and markets. Learning how to avoid them has broad applicability for executives, business leaders, and market participants. In this session,...
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- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
barred People already consume tabloid newspapers, racist propaganda, biased news broadcasts, and pornography willingly. Let them at least know how the general public categorizes such materials Everyone benefits from such a system. Viewers can find the content that they...
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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
strategies are without risk. Belonging to a platform is a way to quickly participate in a platform market. The challenge is to avoid the problem of “hold up” by the platform itself—that is, how do you prevent the platform from extracting...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
exciting. For the other 364 days a year, consumers go out of their way to avoid commercials. Kenny: The case gets into some data about how much brands are spending on advertising, generally speaking. I mean, what does that number look...
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- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
what is the right choice is so difficult. "Access to seemingly endless information online means you can find information to support the feasibility of any possible option. This may actually make decisions harder, not easier,” Hagerty...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Summing Up Summarizing responses to questions about a topic as complex as thinking slow requires that one think slow. So I wrote this column, slept on it, rewrote it, and still have problems with it. But deadlines, as they so often do, help us View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Making ethical and moral decisions in business can be murky and is difficult to teach in the vacuum of a business school classroom, argues Associate Professor...
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Jennifer Myers
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan , behavioral scientist and HBS Associate Professor Francesca Gino explores the unexpected forces that often keep people from following through with their plans. The book,...
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Re: Francesca Gino
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
limit and we naturally shift away from System 2 thought toward System 1 thought. Clearly, a complete System 2 thought process is not necessary for every managerial decision or for every small negotiation you may face. When you're...
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by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
key success factor—like with doctors (is) management's willingness to hear as input in their decision processes." Alberto Souto said, "Both medicine and management are socio-technologies plus art . There is still a lot of...
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by Jim Heskett
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
former Warner shareholders. As a result, Time directors had no duty to maximize shareholder value and were permitted to rebuff the arguably higher Paramount cash offer for Time that a majority of the Time shareholders favored over the Warner deal. Executives need to...
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by Carla Tishler
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
between a true surprise and one that should have been predicted? Anticipating and avoiding business disasters isn't just a matter of doing better environmental scanning or contingency planning. It requires a number of steps, from...
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by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
Editor's note. Organizations are living, growing, learning things, but this depth of experience and knowledge can be difficult to tap into. The secret, according to the authors of Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the...
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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
outlines concrete steps that managers at all levels can take to spark positive conflict and make sure that all views get a fair hearing, and he outlines as well a fair and open process for making more effective decisions. "Keeping conflict constructive helps to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
often diverting you from your original plans and desires. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick-and you finally reach your intended goals. In this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
future. He also offers suggestions for avoiding the worst mistakes and gives advice for reviving your own company. For most companies, a big jolt in the industry landscape is a pretty rare event, Sull says. The travel industry, for...
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by Martha Lagace