Lay Decision Theory - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2009
News

Alumni Books

directly. Focusing on the practical issues of IP, and including case studies and discussions of a dozen companies in a wide range of industries, the authors lay out a new way to see, analyze, and build business around these invisible IP... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

developed an influential body of work about justice, starting from the premise that ignorance might just be bliss. His theories were designed to consider a monumental, if esoteric, question: If you were in charge of the world and had to... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

development of theory regarding strategic planning coupled with the proliferation of courses on the subject, are we sending the right signals to managers in training? Or should we just admit that formal training only begins to prepare... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

rational decision making. Nonprofits often have a cultural opposition to structure. A lack of theory of management practice exists for nonprofits. These characteristics lead to a number of disputes between... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

investors. VCs, in particular, often make the assumption that the person who started the company is going to have to be replaced along the way, and may therefore have a quicker "trigger finger" than the founder-CEO wants. But once the founders bring in those... View Details

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

information," she says. John holds a PhD in behavioral decision theory from Carnegie Mellon University, where she also earned an MSc in psychology and behavioral decision... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

them. Ryan: At HBS, research literally meets practice. The questions we tackle arise from a deep understanding of both the extant theory and the real problems managers face. Michelle entered the doctoral program fascinated by impediments... View Details

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

of business research in the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the book explains how well-tested academic theories can help us find meaning and happiness not just at work, but... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

25 Jun 2019
News

After the Storm

management experience and lay the financial groundwork for his family to transition into the world of nonprofits. He wound up staying twice as long. “Every year it would get to bonus time, and I’d say, ‘All right, next year I’m going to... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery

11 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

that we can predict what they're going to do in the future. How your brain does that is what's interesting to me—when it works well, when it fails, and how it can influence the decisions we make." To determine the point at which humans... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 1999
News

A Constructive Summer at HBS

going on behind the scenes," notes Angela Crispi (MBA '90), assistant dean, chief planning officer. "We're choosing color palettes and making decisions about furniture, flooring, and lighting fixtures. We're also planning the landscaping... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

battled it out in an ever-increasing test of nerves, a kind of Darwinian gauntlet. Early NASA executives had decided this was how to identify who had been born with “the right stuff.” Many companies looking to make top staffing decisions... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a “lab rat” with fewer barriers to understanding—the venture capital industry. VC firms are... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

Galinsky Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four studies employing multiple manipulations of psychological closeness, we found that feeling connected to another individual who... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

September 2011
Article

How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?

The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers... View Details

Keywords: Credit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Forecasting and Prediction; Theory

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04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914—A Bend... View Details

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

Churchill and Judah Folkman-and telling the stories of how they came to power and how they made the most important decisions of their lives, Indispensable reveals how, when, and where a single individual in the right place at the right... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2006
News

Jay Light Named New HBS Dean

a degree in engineering physics, Light earned a DBA from Harvard’s joint program in decision and control theory in 1970. Light’s research and teaching have focused on capital markets and institutional asset... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2020
News

Ink: The Habit of Innovation

view the process as being as rational as possible. These criteria will be guidelines, not rules, as final decisions will always require subjective judgment. Involve outsiders. Parents can attest to how hard it is to be objective about... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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