Judgment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2023
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Educating Leaders for Today and Tomorrow

Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan HBS is constantly taking steps, both small and large, to refine and improve the way it prepares its students and program participants to lead—both in today’s world and in a future we can’t yet imagine. By being creative, nimble,... View Details

12 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

Sites tend to monetize this as a premium feature. However, openness has a downside, he cautions. People can make snap judgments based on photos or other subjective bits of information. McFowland points to sites such as eBay as a prime... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

01 Mar 2024
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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

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

permissibility, Hagerty and Barasz sought to investigate why this occurs. They found that people form psychological permissibility judgments based on how necessary they think the item is for the buyer. The more necessary they viewed an... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Nov 2023
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Love and Money

professional photographer. Because everyone is Googling you or making snap judgments about you from your dating profile, from your LinkedIn profile, and I think too many of us don't pay attention to having a high-quality photo. So find a... View Details

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A Vital Residential Community | About

honesty, respect for others, personal accountability, and a dedication to excellence-qualities that play a key role in developing the teamwork and sound judgment that are central to our educational mission. Tour the Campus We offer three... View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Module 4 Adjusting Journal Entries Understand complex accounting transactions and how they relate to accounting principles and recognize the impact of judgment and bias on financial statements and accounting practices. Highlights... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Communication (42) Investment Activism (12) Investment Banking (6) Investment Funds (12) Investment Portfolio (8) Investment Return (12) Investment (78) Job Cuts and Outsourcing (12) Job Design and Levels (7) Job Interviews (3) Job Offer (3) Job Search (11) Jobs and... View Details

21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager? Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making? What do you think? Is machine learning better than human learning... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

initiatives to help rebuild local industries in the Tohoku region, including the establishment of a temporary fish market. “He made the judgment call that the right thing to do was to look after the victims first and foremost, not the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

gift that he hated at the beginning but then came to love) is the idea that curiosity and judgment can’t coexist; you’re either in one mode or the other. When we see things that are different—people who are different, views that are... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

13 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

the United States made a lot of loans that they knew for sure were going to fail, but they issued them anyway because they just wanted to collect their bonuses. And certainly that happened sometimes. But based on our research, it also could be that people's true View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

10 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values

me hopeful. Q: How do people make decisions about these big economic questions? A: Economists have a very good way of thinking carefully—scientifically, you might say—about the mechanical effects of an economic policy. We are not very good at thinking about the broader... View Details

Keywords: by April White; Retail; Manufacturing

January 2017 (Revised January 2019)
Case

The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott

With nearly $700 billion in assets, Lehman was the largest U.S. bankruptcy in history. In 2007, Lehman achieved record earnings of over $4 billion on revenues of $60 billion. By September 2008 the fourth largest investment bank in the world was bankrupt. How had a... View Details

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Purchase

September 2010 (Revised November 2010)
Case

J.P. Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial Crisis 2008-2009

By: Anette Mikes, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia

Mary Erdoes, the CEO of JP Morgan's asset management business, and three colleagues provide insights into risk management issues faced by the firm's private bank during the financial crisis in 2008–2009. The case provides perspective on the philosophy with which they... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Financial Crisis; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Banking Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

People make snap judgments all the time. That woman in the sharp business suit must be intelligent and successful; the driver who just cut me off is a rude jerk. These instant assessments, when we attribute a person's behavior to innate... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

01 Sep 2023
News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

suggest most accounting errors aren't the result of fraud. Rather, it is unconscious bias that is to blame. Here is a look at those biases, and how they can escalate from a small error of judgment to a big financial nightmare.Rooting out... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

judgment and competence (logic), and when they believe that you care about them (empathy). When trust is lost, it can almost always be traced back to a breakdown in one of these three drivers. You can find the roots of this framework in... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

exercise their own judgment. They think something else is more important. It's up to you to set deadlines and make your priorities clear. They don't understand what you want. Making directions more and more explicit can only go so far. Most work today requires some... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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