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Courses - Entrepreneurship

including entrepreneurial management. The Entrepreneurial Manager Entrepreneurial managers transform opportunities into companies and institutions that make a difference in the world. In their successful “pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

At HBS, I learned how to be decisive with limited information, and that being decisive requires also being a team player, allowing the opinions and knowledge of others to fill my own experience gaps while... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 10 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

the kinds of companies I hoped to work for, so I decided to hold out for HBS. The wait proved worthwhile. At HBS, I learned how to be decisive with limited information, and that being decisive requires also... View Details
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

very intense.” In the same way, managers should be in tune with whether employees are working too hard and should encourage them to take breaks to avoid burning out. 9. Play the long game. Sanders learned important life lessons from... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • September–October 2024
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Where Data-Driven Decision-Making Can Go Wrong

By: Michael Luca and Amy C. Edmondson
When considering internal data or the results of a study, often business leaders either take the evidence presented as gospel or dismiss it altogether. Both approaches are misguided. What leaders need to do instead is conduct rigorous discussions that assess any... View Details
Keywords: Information; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Decision Making
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  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

results were very promising. However, the industry was dominated by large players who could impede the introductions of new technologies. BCM's founders would have to make critical decisions about how quickly to roll out their technology,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17

successful redemption, while a consumer that is motivated to avoid purchasing will anchor on scenarios of failed redemption. We also propose that the degree of adjustment consumers employ will be driven by their strength of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

recommended schedule tends to erode productivity, even among the most experienced workers. “We wanted to find out what happens when people deviate from the sequencing structure that their organization has set for them, and how do they make the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time discounts on designer apparel and accessories. One of the retailer's main challenges is pricing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2020 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Playing the Field: Competing Bids for Anadarko Petroleum Corp

By: E. Scott Mayfield, Daniel Green and Benjamin C. Esty
On April 8, 2019, Occidental’s CEO Vicki Hollub made a private offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for $72 in cash and stock. Anadarko's CEO Al Walker said he would consider the offer, yet three days later, on April 11, he signed a merger agreement with Chevron... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Bids and Bidding; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits
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  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

Recommendations are based on analyses of individuals’ career histories in the professional services sector and other settings, such as appliance manufacturing, oil and gas, health care, and education. The article proposes strategies on how to act preemptively and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • March–April 2017
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Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior

By: Sheila M. Reddy, Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher and Stanley T. Asah
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource... View Details
Keywords: Adaptive Management; Awareness; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Conservation Intervention; Conservation Planning; Decision-making; Incentives; Nudge; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Marketing; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Economics
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Compensation Committees

executive compensation Adapt your compensation strategy to fit your business strategy Make decisions with deeper knowledge of the relationships among compensation plans, employee motivation, and long-term value creation Balance the... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

disadvantages of establishing an in-house advertising resource? A: The make or buy decision relating to advertising services is a complex one. The primary considerations involve issues of cost and control. The make or buy View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 04 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

that diversity is good overall.” What’s driving these decisions? Chang speculates that a behavioral phenomenon known as “loss aversion,” in which people focus on avoiding losses rather than reaping potential gains, might be influencing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Help - Alumni

Renewal Program (GCPCA) Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (HRPBA) Industrial Administrator (IA) International Senior Management Program (ISMP) International Teachers' Program (ITP) Middle-Management Program (MMP) Mid-Officer Certificate (MOC) PhD in... View Details
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Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States
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Podcast - Business & Environment

Futures tools are educating decision makers to better understand how their organizations will experience climate change, and how adaptation and resilience requires a paradigm shift in planning decisions. They describe a five-step process... View Details