Decision-making Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2023
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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters

your interview and decision-making process is long and arduous, but it’s best to be open about these things as early as possible. Your transparency will make it clear that you’re honest and forthcoming while... View Details

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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online

Exercises Explore the dimensions of difference that exist within your team Reflect on how biases can affect inclusion Assess your team's level of inclusion 6-7 hrs Module 3 Tools for Teaming Discover the role of structured decision-making... View Details

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Real Estate Investing - Course Catalog

process of sourcing, underwriting, and ultimately acquiring real estate investments. Content and Organization The course is organized into three modules. Deal Making Fundamentals – The first module focuses the mechanics of real estate... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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A Measured Approach

Illustration by Vahram Muradyan The mission of Educate Girls, a nongovernmental organization in Mumbai, is to get 3 million out-of-school girls in India into the classroom and to provide remedial education. To do that they first have to find the girls, which is a... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

Student-Profile

Talia Gillis

decision-making played a key role in how law is created and understanding law in action. My time as a clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda and at the Israel Supreme Court exposed me to judicial View Details

01 Dec 2002
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“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies

decision-making process of its leadership. Comparing several months in early 1999 with a period in late 1999 through early 2000, she found less and less time being taken to make decisions even as the... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

decision-making toward the bottom of the corporate ladder. Communication systems, such as e-mail and instant messaging applications, will push the decision-making process... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

Bazerman The consumer decision-making literature has paid great attention to the information processing and decision making (or choice) of consumers. In the vast majority of this literature, the dependent... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

Kahneman's diagnosis, but not his remedy Whether the decision is to be made by an individual, a team, or 'the bureaucracy', I would say that all would be well served by the discipline imposed by adherence to a rational process (which)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting

students. Be honest about salary levels/grades, and timelines for interviews and decision making It may feel like you’re sharing a secret by talking honestly about salary, and you may worry about scaring away candidates if your interview and View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?

startup pymetrics, solving the bias problem meant first acknowledging that humans are the most biased decision-makers of all. As a neuroscientist who spent 10 years studying the bias systems wired into our brains, Polli knew that... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias

specialized expertise to the process—which some worry might create subject-area bias in the decision-making process and affect the quality of research. Assistant Professor Danielle Li takes a mathematical... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

figure it out, someone who shouldn’t, will,” Peterson warns. This is the kind of in-the-trenches managerial decision-making that a new HBS Executive Education program for health-care administrators aims to help. Launched last fall,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

Not surprisingly, the subjects who had a personal stake in how the cash was awarded gave themselves a larger chunk than the nonbenefiting subjects thought they merited. "When people stand to gain from a situation," says Fenwick, "their View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

you to approach these challenges more formulaically, with a sound, proven rationale and strategy behind your decision-making process,” she explains. “That’s been critically important as we work to find that balance between high... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Aug 2022
News

Doubles Partner

heavily involved in her firm’s decision-making process well before she announced her retirement. In a December 2020 interview with the HBS Alumni Bulletin, Stillman describes the duo’s skill sets as... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Books

theories outlined in Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Seeing What’s Next offers a practical model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

at all than those shoppers who sampled only 6 flavors; considering too many options made it too hard to choose one.) The Underthinker The problem is that time-crunched managers often swing too far to the other end of the decision-making... View Details