Decision Choices And Conditions - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

approach to the “pitch or spec” dilemma by constructing a model that links this choice to writers’ past experience and their confidence level about this particular idea. The model also predicts the average... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

matching system for New England, correcting public school choice programs in New York and Boston, and tackling markets for new medical residents, economists, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

companies, on communities, and, most of all, on employees. "The initial drive was to build empathy around the decisions that are so core on a human level," Sucher says. "They wanted people to learn about that." Green... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

difficult decisions over what investments to keep and what investments to cut. How they made those choices and what effect they had on business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

test systems. HP experienced both a financial loss and a morale loss, while Teradyne capitalized on an opportunity and preempted a market migration away from its products. Ultimately, financial expectations... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

deep financial distress and had no choice but seek a foreign partner. Ghosn, who had never worked in Japan but had extensive experiences in other parts of the world, motivated the middle management at Nissan... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

condition); and some had access to the usage of four co-workers (the quintet condition). On average, the results showed that those in the solo condition spent more time on their walk-stations during the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

Two well-documented problems can derail government programs to boost new venture activity. First, they can simply get it wrong: allocating funds and support in an inept or, even worse, counterproductive manner. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

A: Make sure that the family is open to really including the non-family managers in important management decisions. Quite often in the family they get together on Sunday afternoon for dinner and make important View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

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