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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
not see their role ‘as an enabler of direct public participation in decision-making through formats such as deliberative meetings, and do not believe there are personal benefits for investing in these activities.’ And yet if society is to... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
deeper cultural tendencies as well. But my research shows that there's another, equally treacherous, aspect to cross-border negotiation that's been largely overlooked in the literature: the ways that people from different regions come to agreement, or the View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
is designed to help an executive frame a decision-making process to answer an issue he or she is wrestling with and move forward with actionable steps." View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
decision-making biases. "Basically, people place more value on a good outcome today than a better outcome for which they would have to wait for two weeks," she says. "That's why I think process improvement... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
information disclosure proposed by the Global Transparency Initiative (2009). 4. Expand and protect political space for democratic and participatory decision-making in national political processes. The potential for democratic,... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
guidelines you've identified for (1.) sparking constructive conflict; and (2.) devising a decision-making process that will be fair and effective? A: To be effective, leaders need to ensure that conflict... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
defensiveness in colleagues and subordinates. Second-guessing a senior manager can demoralize and demotivate not only that person but others around him, while eroding his authority and confidence. What's more, the need to overrule a proposal indicates that the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
assess the decision-making process at their companies. How often should leaders do such self-assessment? A: They should use the litmus test—in real time—as they wrestle with all major strategic decisions.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
major power-generation assets in the course of the break-up of RAO UES, the Russian electricity monopoly. The case highlights the decision-making process by the company executives in the context of possible... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
down to being an approachable leader." But "once a decision is made ... public criticism of that particular decision should be actively discouraged ... ." As Ina Ferber put it, "… it is important to avoid groupthink during a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
But with few exceptions, organizational structure has failed to keep up with other market-fueled technological innovation. As a result, a lot of companies are stuck in a structure rut, and aren’t operating as smoothly as they could be. “We have this sort of binge diet... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
at all than those shoppers who sampled only 6 flavors; considering too many options made it too hard to choose one.) The Underthinker The problem is that time-crunched managers often swing too far to the other end of the decision-making... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making By: Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer Abstract—In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to the View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
to the idea that Sales and Marketing should each play a role in each phase of the process from e-mail marketing solutions right through to the close. That is, they argue that the two functions are best integrated by encouraging them to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
experiments for second-year MBA students and in his 2020 book, The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World, co-written with Max H. Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Five... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
Bazerman The consumer decision-making literature has paid great attention to the information processing and decision making (or choice) of consumers. In the vast majority of this literature, the dependent... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
healthcare—i.e., patient-centered outcomes achieved per healthcare dollar spent—can define quality and unify performance improvement goals with health outcomes of importance to patients across the entire cycle of care. We describe the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
decision-making toward the bottom of the corporate ladder. Communication systems, such as e-mail and instant messaging applications, will push the decision-making process... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Kahneman's diagnosis, but not his remedy Whether the decision is to be made by an individual, a team, or 'the bureaucracy', I would say that all would be well served by the discipline imposed by adherence to a rational process (which)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett