Judgment - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

When others think like us or look like us, we are likely able to predict their moves and perspectives. But when they don’t, we need to be open to learning about them. 2. Reserving judgment opens us up to curiosity In improv, you go with... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

01 Nov 2021
What Do You Think?

How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

Phillip Mathew kicked things off by stating that “Selection recommendations must undergo rigorous independent review the selection criteria and process of gathering and presenting the judgment data needs to be robust, efficient, and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

decisions. Analytics are important, but judgment and critical thinking ultimately set the roadmap. All employees, not just the data scientists, use data to develop new insights and foresight instead of relying on past experience. Given... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

23 Nov 2021
Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

company to begin to play catch-up to Amazon in cloud computing, and fast. The culture had to be reshaped to foster trust vs. infighting, a greater reliance on judgment vs. formal controls, and higher engagement of both employees and... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

07 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much

profits over one week. The psychology of giving Consumers might be making these choices for several reasons, even beyond judgments of generosity, Keenan says. For example, people shopping for brands that donate a higher percentage of... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

16 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Auditing Oligopoly and Lobbying on Accounting Standards

Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen, Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury; Accounting; Banking

2024
Working Paper

Scaling Core Earnings Measurement with Large Language Models

By: Matthew Shaffer and Charles CY Wang

We study the application of large language models (LLMs) to the estimation of core earnings, i.e., a firm's persistent profitability from its core business activities. This construct is central to investors' assessments of economic performance and valuations. However,... View Details

Keywords: Large Language Models; AI and Machine Learning; Accounting; Profit; Corporate Disclosure; Analytics and Data Science; Measurement and Metrics

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04 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

When US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Edward Chang noticed something interesting: To fill the vacancy, then-President Donald Trump replaced Ginsburg with another woman, Amy Coney Barrett, even though... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

feelings of powerlessness and low self-esteem due to their hierarchical rank or lack of resources. Why We Judge Cuddy's overall research agenda focuses on stereotyping and questions around how we form judgments of others' warmth and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

ethical governance of data "often" or "always," a number that seems inconsistent with what we heard in our roundtables. Participants say there’s still much work to do to embed ethical judgment throughout an organization and prepare for... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

assessment-oriented cultures, managers act as if employees’ talents are set in stone, and they make snap judgments about who on the team has talent and who doesn’t. “When they talk about what it takes to be successful, managers will often... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

noticeably lacking at Enron. These processes include: Liberating evaluation processes by adding qualitative judgment to whatever standard quantitative measures of performance that business plans may require Designing and implementing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

27 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

slides before teaching a new MBA course at HBS when a student entering the room mistook her for an IT support specialist. “Easy mistake, right?” Huang says. “Asian woman equals tech support, not professor.” When people make snap judgments... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

things can run smoothly for as long as possible. It's often a judgment call." Name: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration Courses she teaches: Managing Change (MBA elective); Leading Change and... View Details

Keywords: Management

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

on her judgment ("I must still have feelings for him"). In this paper, we report a series of five studies examining how the perceived spontaneity of thought influences the extent to which it is believed to yield meaningful self-insight... View Details

2013
Working Paper

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

By: Richard L. Nolan

This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention

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01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

often a judgment call." The ability to render that judgment can sometimes make or break a company. "The phrase 'public confidence, private doubt' comes to mind," observes Joe Badaracco.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

23 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

surveyed 516 Harvard undergraduates, the results held steady. Asked to imagine receiving a high-power job opportunity upon graduation (a likely prospect for many of them), young women listed a higher proportion of negative outcomes than young men did. AVOIDING View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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