Choice - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments, edited by R. M. Kramer, A. E. Tenbrunsel, and M. H. Bazerman. Psychology Press, in press Abstract It is common for people to be more critical of others' ethical View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2005 (Revised October 2005)
Case

Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner

Describes Standard & Poor's sovereign credit ratings business. Provides background on the history of credit ratings agencies, the meaning of credit ratings, the expansion of the sovereign ratings business over recent decades, and the market for credit ratings. Also,... View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; History; Policy; Business and Government Relations; International Finance; Country; Globalized Economies and Regions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Debates; Financial Services Industry; United States

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11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

occasional voters, donors, and taxpayers but as their customers. It's important for the major parties to give voters choices. With no incumbent candidate or heir apparent running in the current presidential primaries, the diversity of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

choice of resisting or leaving, as we will be inevitably be the next victims of the repressive policies we did not confront but ended up supporting by complying." Some offered more highly-textured advice. Saurabh Gautam said,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

July 2010 (Revised November 2011)
Supplement

Zensar: The Future of Vision Communities (B)

By: David A. Garvin and Rachna Tahilyani

Zensar is a rapidly growing, mid-sized Indian IT services company with a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies. One of its practices, Vision Communities, is an inclusive forum for innovation and strategy formulation. As the company grows,... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Leadership Style; Employee Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business or Company Management; Expansion; Information Technology Industry; India

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March 2011 (Revised February 2014)
Case

Cree, Inc.: Which Bright Future?

By: David J. Collis, Mary Furey and Matthew Shaffer

After its founding in the late 1980s, Cree Inc. quickly grew into a major player in the emerging LED market. By 2007, technological improvements in LEDs had made them suitable for TV, computer, and mobile "backlighting"; and concerns over global warning led to calls to... View Details

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January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
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Lean Forward Media

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston

Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Early Childhood Education; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Creativity

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06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

separated from manufacturing. When modularity is low, product designs can't be clearly specified and design choices affect manufacturing processes in subtle, difficult-to-predict ways (and vice versa). The second is the maturity of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

tool creates spillovers even to products that are not available for virtual try-on, increases loyalty, helps customers better parse their choice sets, and reduces uncertainty by providing size recommendation. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

volunteering if this history is public rather than private. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50190 Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker Abstract—Previous research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

consumers' technological skills and openness to new experiences, and that consumers' beliefs about the social utility of feature-rich products are predictive of their choices of such products. Further, we examine when impression... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

Farjoun argues that we have neglected the full array of modes of cognition between rational choice and feedback-based adaptive learning and have therefore overstated the role of our focal mode, reasoning by analogy. Third, he highlights... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

that thinking about a job as a relationship could serve job seekers in other fields. If you are reading this, you probably have the good fortune to have made some choices about the jobs you took or are going to take. Prestige and money... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

09 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

coordinating choices throughout the value chain while giving students a sense of how competitive dynamics work. A dashboard from the Strategic Brew simulation. Two years and thousands of hours in the making, Strategic Brew is the idea of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage

07 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 7, 2015

new business should be implemented, particularly in terms of integration versus separation of a new business unit, choice of unit leader, and whether Amgen should partner with a third party to gain access to skills or resources. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

"leverage" that technology can provide, commenting that "who says that if I want to service my client I have to be at my desk in my office?" Tom Dolembo, who has "no choice but to be 24/7 and technologically... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

03 Nov 2011
What Do You Think?

The Ultimate Question in Management

on their choice of "How likely is it you would recommend us to a friend?" as the ultimate question. Fred Reichheld put it this way in describing the question behind the question: "our candidate for the ultimate question in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

and see to have the least amount of variety in their product line. After all, if the imitators decide to stand back and observe what is most successful, wouldn't they choose to copy just a few, choice products? Conversely, it would seem... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
Teaching Note

Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to... View Details

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April 2007
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Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers - Video

By: D. Quinn Mills and Carole Winkler

Leadership: Can I learn it, how do I do it, and how can I use it to advance my career? How is today's world different from the one our teachers entered years ago, and how does that affect me? The two videos on this DVD address these and other questions typically asked... View Details