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  • June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
  • Case

What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346 people died: the crash of Lion Air flight 610 on October 29, 2018, in Indonesia, and the crash of Ethiopian Airlines... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Communication Strategy; Forms of Communication; Announcements; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Globalization; Global Strategy; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Systems; Risk Management; Time Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Supply and Industry; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Industry Structures; Operations; Product Development; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Failure; Success; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Strategy; Transportation; Air Transportation; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Africa; Ethiopia; Asia; Indonesia; North and Central America; United States; Seattle; Chicago
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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Educating Leaders for Today and Tomorrow

developing new courses and cases and by thoughtfully deploying different modes of teaching and learning—case, field, and online—the School aims to instill in all its learners a deep understanding of the forces and phenomena shaping business while giving them the... View Details
  • Web

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 07 Nov 2023
  • News

Love and Money

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Which is the best dating app? Can money actually buy love? When do you talk about money in a new relationship and how do you broach the topic? How can well-meaning parents actually help their... View Details
  • Web

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
  • Web

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Accounting Policies; Business Ethics; Financial Reporting; Volatility; Judgments; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Investment Banking; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Ethics; Banking Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

not their value judgments across projects,” Krieger advises. Also, introduce more people with varied backgrounds into the selection process. “For example, a venture capitalist is trained to think about possibility, rather than the... 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
  • 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