Decision Avoidance - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

hamper productivity through “human obstruction” tactics, by purposely and surreptitiously making poor decisions and being uncooperative. “Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

behind using reserves as a means to avoid the negative effects of crisis: why don't sovereign countries reduce their sovereign debt instead? To study the joint decision of holding sovereign debt and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

best practice, its rivals tend to copy it quickly. Best practice competition eventually leads to competitive convergence, with many companies doing the same things in the same ways. Customers end up making decisions based on price,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

members of the investment team are at par and make investment decisions together, instead of having someone who ultimately makes the investing calls. This is possible when teams are designed to avoid the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

decision, but to guide and mentor the team through the decision process. You may interview candidates at this stage, too, but I suggest this be to help a junior manager resolve concerns they have about the candidate or probe more deeply... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

for download. Fair (and Not So Fair) Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

hiring decisions than humans. In these stories from our recent archives, Harvard Business School researchers outline the promises of big data—and the limitations of trying to harness data from a firehose. The Civic Benefits of Google... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

starts to look more like the past if I make automatic decisions that are all based on inferences of the past. For consumers and the world, we have this opportunity right now to avoid using data from the... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

approaches that redesign specific incentives, tasks, and decisions to reduce temptations to cheat in the environment. This paper explores how these approaches can change behavior. We argue that integrating both approaches while View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

residential buyers make informed decisions in similar circumstances, Kennealey concluded. So he launched Nester in the beginning of 2023. The service projects 15 years’ worth of maintenance and repair costs based on data points found... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

(iStockphoto/tofumax) A corporate board’s most important decision is selecting the organization’s CEO. By the same token, one could argue that a board’s most distasteful decision concerns firing a CEO. Once... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Nutrition ; Social Enterprise ; Relationships ; Business and Community Relations ; Decision Making ; Operations ; Food and Beverage Industry ; New Jersey ; North Carolina ; Pennsylvania Citation Educators Related Gibson, Hise O., F.... View Details

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others, was published in July 2019 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. “Passion, like a smile, is contagious.” In the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

the idea of completing a set, even if it means working harder or spending more money—with no additional reward other than the satisfaction of completion and the relief of avoiding an incomplete set. Imagine arriving at your boss’s summer... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

political, and regulatory institutions. One question that arises is whether there are certain minimum standards that ought to guide managers in their decision making independently of local institutional requirements, especially when... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

relentlessly communicate, communicate, communicate. This is to avoid rumors developing that muddy the waters. Collaboration. This is a time for you to call on the resources, the capabilities of all of your employees, all of your team... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

In the classic game of Chicken, two drivers on a crash course speed toward each other. The rules are simple: Whoever swerves first and avoids collision loses, and whoever is brave enough to stay the course wins. Of course, when both... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

connected to the Internet. Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive... View Details