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  • March 2016 (Revised February 2020)
  • Teaching Note

Compass Group: The Ascension Health Decision

By: Ryan W. Buell
In 2012, Compass Group (Compass) was on the verge of closing a $2 billion deal with Ascension Health (Ascension), one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States. Under the deal, Compass would provide foodservice management and cleaning services for 86 of... View Details
Keywords: Operations Strategy; Sectorization; Operational Focus; Customer Compatibility; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • November 1989 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision

By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
Illustrates how ADP's top management uses formal planning and control systems to establish strategic boundaries for its business units. Top management has developed a detailed list of strategic criteria that ADP managers use to evaluate products and business units, as... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Strategic Planning; Management Systems; Accounting; Acquisition
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  • October 2006
  • Teaching Note

Icebreaker: The China Entry Decision (TN)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III
Teaching Note to (806-195). View Details
Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry; China; United States; Europe
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  • October 1998 (Revised November 2001)
  • Case

Boston Beer Company: Light Beer Decision

By: Linda A. Cyr, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Michael J. Roberts
Boston Beer's current light-beer offering, Boston Lightship, has not been successful, and a student team is charged with investigating the problem and recommending a strategy. Highlights issues around branding, target customer selection, and cannibalization, and... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Brands and Branding; Customers; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston
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  • August 1982 (Revised June 1983)
  • Case

American President Lines Ltd.: CMS-I Decision (A)

By: James I. Cash Jr. and Michael R. Vitale
Keywords: Information Technology; Decision Making; Shipping Industry
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  • 21 Jun 2022
  • News

To Improve Management, Build a Decision Factory

  • 01 Oct 1989
  • Conference Presentation

Organization Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective

By: L. M. Applegate and J. C. Henderson
Keywords: Organizations; Decisions; Groups and Teams
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  • 30 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

apply came from talking to HBS alumni. While each individual had unique experiences and found varying degrees of career success, not one regretted the decision to attend. I never detected a single trace of regret. That might not be the... View Details
  • September 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Leasing Decision at Magnet Beauty Products, Inc.

By: Krishna G. Palepu and George Serafeim
A fast-growing retailer is facing two different leasing options for its stores. In choosing between the two options, management is considering the potential impact of the two options on the company's financial statements, in light of the proposed new accounting... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Standards; Leasing; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Retail Industry
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  • Web

Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

Statement on Supreme Court Decision Harvard University leadership, including Dean Srikant Datar, address the Harvard community after the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions... View Details
  • 1986
  • Article

Model Management Systems: Designs for Decision Support

By: L. M. Applegate, B. Konsynski and J. Nunamaker
Keywords: Management; System; Design; Decision Making
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  • 1991
  • Chapter

Organizational Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective

By: L. M. Applegate and J. Henderson
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decisions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Organizational Culture
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  • 25 Oct 2012
  • News

Decision Time: Why Do Some Leaders Leave A Mark?

  • 11 Feb 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Gender Stereotypes in Deliberation and Team Decisions

Keywords: by Katherine B. Coffman, Clio Bryant Flikkema, and Olga Shurchkov
  • August 2017
  • Article

Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray

By: Eugene F. Soltes
Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Organizational Culture; Business Education
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  • April 2023
  • Case

Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed

By: Michael Parzen, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng and Jessie Li
This is a case about a fictional New York beverage company called Fizzy Fusion. The business is facing supply chain and inventory management challenges with its new product, SparklingSip. Despite seeking help from a data science consulting firm, the machine learning... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Production; Risk and Uncertainty; Analytics and Data Science; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • September 2022
  • Supplement

Reflecting on the Decision Point (Deborah Lovich)

By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
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  • September 2016
  • Article

Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making

By: Max Bazerman and Ovul Sezer
In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the perpetrators were surrounded by people who could have recognized the misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and... View Details
Keywords: Ethics
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  • 15 Mar 2013
  • News

Take Your 'Emotional Temperature' Before Making Decisions

  • 05 Aug 2010
  • News

Google Wave Decision Shows Strong Innovation Management