Decision Authority - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Jun 2014
What Do You Think?

Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?

There are two predominant sides to the discussion of this question. One is that the amount of information about products and services is becoming so voluminous that it will lead to increased consumer confusion. As a result, the use of surrogates (such as brands) in our... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products; Technology

02 Dec 2014
News

The Gift That Keeps Giving

05 Jul 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, Robert Lagerström, Martin Mocker, and Carliss Y. Baldwin; Tourism

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Faculty & Research

2025 | Article | Harvard Business Review Joy, along with achievement and meaningfulness, is one of the three keys to a satisfying life. Yet it’s the missing piece for many ambitious individuals, the authors found after examining data on... View Details

Career Coach

Tim Butler

Dr. Timothy Butler is a Senior Fellow on the HBS faculty and is the faculty advisor to HBS Career and Professional Development. He is an expert in the area of business career decision-making and the author of many books, psychological... View Details

21 Oct 2021
News

Time Affluence: How Mindful Time Management Increases Happiness

28 Jun 2021
News

Building Psychological Safety in Learning Programs

26 Nov 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Demand Estimation in Models of Imperfect Competition

Keywords: by Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller

22 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer.; Health

May 2021
Article

Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being

By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Christine K. Cassel

The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Health Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

18 Sep 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Using Models to Persuade

Keywords: by Joshua Schwartzstein and Adi Sunderam

March 2023
Case

Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

On the morning of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline Company became aware that the company had been the victim of a malicious ransomware attack that had stolen and locked up company data. The extortionists demanded 75 bitcoins (worth about $4.4 million at the time) in... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

13 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 13

investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2014
News

Turkcell’s Story Becomes a Harvard Business School Case Study

15 Jun 2016
News

Why Harvard Business School teaches students about whaling

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

individuals has emerged. There has been a psychological reformation as powerful and decisive as the religious reformation of the sixteenth century. Today's individuals seek psychological self-determination. They are the origins of their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace