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- 1983
- Book
Decision Making at the Top: The Shaping of Strategic Direction
By: Gordon Donaldson and J. W. Lorsch
Donaldson, Gordon, and J. W. Lorsch. Decision Making at the Top: The Shaping of Strategic Direction. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
- October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Exercise
Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (B)
This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All...
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"Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (B)." Harvard Business School Exercise 301-027, October 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Exercise
Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (A)
This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All...
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"Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (A)." Harvard Business School Exercise 301-026, October 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- November 2022 (Revised February 2024)
- Exercise
Managing Customer Retention at Teleko
By: Eva Ascarza
This exercise aims to teach students about 1) Targeting Policies; and 2) Algorithmic decision making, and 3) Retention management.
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Ascarza, Eva. "Managing Customer Retention at Teleko." Harvard Business School Exercise 523-005, November 2022. (Revised February 2024.)
- October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Exercise
Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (D)
This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All...
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"Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (D)." Harvard Business School Exercise 301-029, October 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Exercise
Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (F)
This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All...
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"Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (F)." Harvard Business School Exercise 301-049, October 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Exercise
Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (C)
This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All...
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"Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (C)." Harvard Business School Exercise 301-028, October 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Exercise
Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (E)
This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All...
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"Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (E)." Harvard Business School Exercise 301-030, October 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- August 1974 (Revised June 1975)
- Background Note
Decision Analysis
Summary of the main concepts of (simple) decision trees--structuring a problem, assigning endpoint values, using probabilities, averaging out and folding back. Also treats risk profile.
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Jackson, Barbara B. "Decision Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 175-033, August 1974. (Revised June 1975.)
- Article
Is Saving Lives Your Task or God's?: Religiosity, Belief in God, and Moral Judgment
By: Netta Barak-Corren and Max Bazerman
Should a Catholic hospital abort a life-threatening pregnancy or let a pregnant woman die? Should a religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation? People and organizations of faith often face moral decisions that...
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Keywords:
Normative Conflict;
Inaction;
Indirectness;
Deontology;
Utilitarianism;
Sunday Effect;
Religion;
Moral Sensibility;
Decisions;
Judgments
Barak-Corren, Netta, and Max Bazerman. "Is Saving Lives Your Task or God's? Religiosity, Belief in God, and Moral Judgment." Judgment and Decision Making 12, no. 3 (May 2017): 280–296.
- February 2018
- Article
Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women
By: Nancy R. Baldiga and Katherine Baldiga Coffman
Sponsorship programs have been proposed as one way to promote female advancement in competitive career fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels...
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Keywords:
Economics;
Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making;
Laboratory Experiment;
Competition;
Organizations;
Gender;
Behavior
Baldiga, Nancy R., and Katherine Baldiga Coffman. "Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women." Management Science 64, no. 2 (February 2018): 888–901.
- July 2021
- Article
Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Trade-off Between Flexibility and Routinization
By: John Beshears, Hae Nim Lee, Katherine L. Milkman, Robert Mislavsky and Jessica Wisdom
Habits involve regular, cue-triggered routines. In a field experiment, we tested whether incentivizing exercise routines—paying participants each time they visit the gym within a planned, daily two-hour window—leads to more persistent exercise than offering flexible...
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Keywords:
Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making;
Healthcare;
Exercise;
Habit;
Routine;
Health;
Behavior;
Decision Making
Beshears, John, Hae Nim Lee, Katherine L. Milkman, Robert Mislavsky, and Jessica Wisdom. "Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Trade-off Between Flexibility and Routinization." Management Science 67, no. 7 (July 2021): 4139–4171.
- 20 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment
- 26 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty
Keywords:
by Max H. Bazerman & Francesca Gino
- Article
Overcoming the Outcome Bias: Making Intentions Matter
People often make the well-documented mistake of paying too much attention to the outcomes of others’ actions while neglecting information about the original intentions leading to those outcomes. In five experiments, we examine interventions aimed at reducing this...
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Keywords:
Outcome Bias;
Intentions;
Joint Evaluation;
Judgment;
Separate Evaluation;
Goals and Objectives;
Prejudice and Bias;
Judgments;
Performance Evaluation;
Outcome or Result
Sezer, Ovul, Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino, and Max Bazerman. "Overcoming the Outcome Bias: Making Intentions Matter." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 137 (November 2016): 13–26.
- February 1975 (Revised November 1986)
- Background Note
Note on the Use of Experience Curves in Competitive Decision Making
Describes the experience curve concept, details of its application, uses in competitive analysis, and a number of caveats and limitations.
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Keywords:
Decision Making
Hammond, John S. "Note on the Use of Experience Curves in Competitive Decision Making." Harvard Business School Background Note 175-174, February 1975. (Revised November 1986.)
- Winter 2021
- Article
Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help
By: Amar Bhidé
Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics
has instead become more like physics in focusing on concise, universal propositions verified
through decisive tests. This focus, I argue, limits the practical...
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Keywords:
Economic Methodology;
Simulations;
Banking;
Regulation;
Judgment;
Economics;
Banks and Banking
Bhidé, Amar. "Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 33, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 122–133.
- 27 Feb 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry
- 15 Aug 2016
- News