Publications

Educators

2003
Article

Effect of Assessment Method on the Discrepancy between Judgments of Health Disorders People Have and Do Not Have: A Web Study

By: Jonathan Baron, David A. Asch, Angela Fagerlin, Christopher Jepson, George Loewenstein, Jason Riis, Margaret G. Stineman and Peter A. Ubel

Keywords: Judgments; Health Disorders; Web; Information

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

Foundation Clinton Fellows. Part-time, we also have an urban planner working on policy and an architect. Our annual budget of about $200,000 is part grant-funded and part fees-generated from consulting... View Details

September 2010 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Leasing Decision at Magnet Beauty Products, Inc.

By: Krishna G. Palepu and George Serafeim

A fast-growing retailer is facing two different leasing options for its stores. In choosing between the two options, management is considering the potential impact of the two options on the company's financial statements, in light of the proposed new accounting... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Standards; Leasing; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

Educators

August 1982 (Revised June 1983)
Case

American President Lines Ltd.: CMS-I Decision (A)

By: James I. Cash Jr. and Michael R. Vitale

Keywords: Information Technology; Decision Making; Shipping Industry

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

apply came from talking to HBS alumni. While each individual had unique experiences and found varying degrees of career success, not one regretted the decision to attend. I never detected a single trace of... View Details

1979
Other Unpublished Work

Fox Studios: Operating a Small Business - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox and Frank S. Leonard

Keywords: Media; Business Ventures; Operations; Decision Making; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

August 2015
Article

Cost Conscious? The Neural and Behavioral Impact of Price Primacy on Decision-Making

By: Uma R. Karmarkar, Baba Shiv and Brian Knutson

Price is a key factor in most purchases, but it can be presented at different stages of decision making prior to a purchase. We examine the sequence-dependent effects of price and product information on the decision-making process at both neural and behavioral levels.... View Details

Keywords: fMRI; Retail Promotion; Purchase Decisions; Price; Value; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Product Marketing; Retail Industry

Read Now

12 Jul 2016
News

Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant in Game Theory and Decision Analysis, Dies at 92

Keywords: Managerial Economics

01 Oct 1989
Conference Presentation

Organization Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective

By: L. M. Applegate and J. C. Henderson

Keywords: Organizations; Decisions; Groups and Teams

22 Oct 2019
News

When It’s OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision

1986
Article

Model Management Systems: Designs for Decision Support

By: L. M. Applegate, B. Konsynski and J. Nunamaker

Keywords: Management; System; Design; Decision Making

Article

Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent... View Details

Keywords: Wages; Rights; Fairness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Pennsylvania

1991
Chapter

Organizational Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective

By: L. M. Applegate and J. Henderson

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decisions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Organizational Culture

January 2013
Case

Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (A)

By: Willy Shih and Ying Zhou

Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and the technical project lead, and the (B) case describes the perspective of a senior manager who is the head of the New... View Details

Educators

1981
Other Unpublished Work

Comet Energy (A) DoD Incentive Contracting - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox and Louis B. Smith

Keywords: Contracts; Business and Government Relations; National Security; Decision Making

Web

Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

Statement on Supreme Court Decision Harvard University leadership, including Dean Srikant Datar, address the Harvard community after the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions... View Details

Article

Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce

We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political... View Details

Keywords: Spoken Communication; Prejudice and Bias; Competency and Skills; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Decisions