Decision Choices And Conditions - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

Like: Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation Feedback or... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

HouseElizabeth Arenz, MBA 2022Belle House offers the cleanest skincare you’ve ever seen. Into reading labels? No chemistry degree needed. Belle House envisions a future in which consumers don’t have to compromise between their short-term goals, long-term health View Details

27 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers

visit our page on hiring international students. International Students Exhibit Strength of Character No matter their industry, employers look for candidates with grit, personal strength, and ability in the face of challenge. Few life... View Details

Katherine B. Coffman

Katherine Coffman is the Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiations, Organizations & Markets unit. Before joining HBS, she was an assistant professor of economics at The Ohio State University and a visiting assistant professor of... View Details

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

of information one can access through "hookup density" in the brain. Paul Nicholas agreed, "We tend to make choices and decisions based on feelings; our... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

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

electric school buses to jeopardize consumer support and make your innovations controversial again. The choice is stark. In a climate-denying administration, this may set back the industry for years, letting... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

percent of that mortgage." The result of that was that white people were able to buy homes now, and communities like Levittown, New York, were created in the suburbs. But on the condition from the federal... View Details

May 2000 (Revised July 2000)
Case

U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Gorges Dam (A), The

By: George C. Lodge and Cate Reavis

Describes the dilemma Martin Kamarck faced as president of the Export-Import Bank in whether to provide U.S. companies financing for China's Three Gorges Dam project. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; China; United States

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14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

goes, ‘Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.’ So, if time is of the essence, how to best think and frame the problems we need to solve with our teams to survive this crisis? What is sequence of those... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

26 Dec 2014
News

Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

and creatively to develop business solutions that mitigate climate change Explore climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts’ scalability, costs, and benefits to inform... View Details

2002
Other Unpublished Work

Make versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information

By: George P. Baker and Thomas N. Hubbard

Keywords: Truck Transportation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ownership; Transportation Industry

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27 Feb 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

Keywords: by Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher, and Michael Wahlen; Motion Pictures & Video

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

trade and production for the Ministry of Agriculture, has won a WTO sugar decision for Brazil against the EU sugar policies. This case analyzes what this decision will mean to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

administer the exercise in class. The goals of the exercise are to examine how asking questions during conversation influences interpersonal perception, information exchange, decision making, productivity, as well as relationships View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that governments are now adopting alter people’s decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets

Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value... View Details

November 1990 (Revised June 1993)
Background Note

Price-Quantity Determination

Examines the important economic considerations affecting a firm's price-quantity decision for a product. Begins with a discussion of the appropriate decision criterion. Next, it motivates the concept of a demand curve for a product and defines demand elasticity.... View Details

Keywords: Price; Accounting

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09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

was an isolated incident. The board then weighed an important decision that turned on their view of the CEO’s role and the company’s compensation policies: Would a sanction be enough, or should the board... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

March 2022 (Revised February 2024)
Case

Emeritus: Achieving Impact, Providing Access (A)

By: Ashish Nanda and Zack Kurtovich

In June 2019, Emeritus cofounders Ashwin Damera (HBS MBA 2005) and Chaitanya Kalipatnapu were thrilled with the rapid growth of Emeritus. Damera and Kalipatnapu believed that Emeritus, established in July 2015 to offer online executive education, was only in the early... View Details