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Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making Course Number 2236 Associate Professor Joshua Schwartzstein Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Project Course Description Effective... View Details

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Managerial Decision Analysis

By: David E. Bell

David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. are concluding a multiyear project aimed at producing more field-oriented case material for the Managerial Economics course, specifically, materials on decision, data, and risk analysis. A series of case- and textbooks (with... View Details

2013
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Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

By: Max Bazerman and Don A. Moore

Is your judgment influenced by personal biases? In situations requiring careful judgment, we're all influenced by our own biases to some extent. But, with Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, you can learn how to overcome those biases to make better... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; Prejudice and Bias

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04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Summing Up The clear consensus of those responding to this month's column is that managerial capitalism, as John Bogle terms it, has peaked. But what will follow it is less clear. Many doubt that the form of owners' capitalism represented... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

1985
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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: A Casebook on the History of American Economic Institutions

By: A. D. Chandler Jr. and R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Economic Systems; Managerial Roles

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12 Jul 2016
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Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant in Game Theory and Decision Analysis, Dies at 92

Keywords: Managerial Economics

23 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Gad Allon, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

April 2014 (Revised June 2015)
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Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics

By: Leslie John, Michael Norton and Michael Norris

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stickK.com, a website that uses behavioral economics to help users achieve their goals, must choose between a direct-to-consumer or business-to-business model. The case... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Behavior Change; B2B Vs. B2C; Human Resource Management; Marketing Of Innovations; Health ＆ Wellness; Weight Loss; Charitable Giving; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Health; Business Model; Sales; Human Resources; Health Industry; United States

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1973
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Managerial Economics: Text and Cases

By: Paul Marshall, Charles J. Christenson and Richard F. Vancil

Keywords: Management; Economics; Information; Cases

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07 Dec 2015
HBS Seminar

Antonio Moreno-Garcia, Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

March 2006
Book Review

Book review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies

By: Rakesh Khurana

Keywords: Economic Systems; Information; Society; Management

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2017
Working Paper

Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management

By: Luke C.D. Stein and Charles C.Y. Wang

In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may opportunistically shift earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document empirically that when financial markets are less certain about a firm's... View Details

Keywords: Discretionary Accruals; Uncertainty; Implied Volatility; Earnings Response Coefficient; Risk and Uncertainty; Earnings Management; Financial Markets

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24 Mar 2016
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Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management

Keywords: by Luke C.D. Stein and Charles C.Y. Wang; Financial Services

01 Dec 1998
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New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership

One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for... View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

At the start of the pandemic, the uncertainty primarily concerned health issues—the diffusion of the virus and its effective threat. As the virus expanded from China to other countries, the uncertainty extended to the economic domain. For... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

1985
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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Case Commentary and Teaching Technique

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Economic Systems; Managerial Roles

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Together with Prof. Daniel F. Spulber (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University), I edit the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), the leading academic journal on the economics of strategy. JEMS is based at Harvard Business... View Details

12 Sep 2024
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Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics

01 Sep 2023
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The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

and analytics with sound managerial judgment. If you look at the settings in which Max and I have been involved, it’s not that organizations weren’t using data; they were. But the economics and behavioral... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information