Rational Choice - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jul 2015
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The Myth of Rational Decision Making

26 Nov 2019
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Who Killed Healthcare? Dr Regina Herzlinger Knows Who’s Guilty

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

think those people also run a tremendous risk of being left behind. Goldman has a big market share in Internet stocks, and we have tried our best to understand them, but some of this defies rational analysis! We're using valuation... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Feb 1997
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Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

that patients may feel are necessary; and squeezing down compensation for talented physicians and hospitals. Indeed, activist American consumers even rebel against perfectly rational HMO tactics like reducing hospital lengths of stay.... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Books

several unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter as they develop new businesses. The authors focus on factors that influence female entrepreneurs’ choices of business and industry — personal motivation, commitment, education,... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

introduction of Amazon Web Services in early 2006. This was the defining moment when the cost of starting consumer internet businesses really plummeted. That fact was very useful in rationalizing other things we saw happening: VC... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who want to bet on the stock market. It also suggests alternative... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

time in class discussing how to structure deals and leverage resources you don't actually have - both key issues when we started Stylus," he says. "My goal," Bhide explains, "is to help students make smarter choices about the businesses... View Details

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