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- 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
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
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
and you have to meet budgetary numbers, you can forget about morals.” How do we educate students to avoid Hoffenberg’s path? Soltes has three suggestions. The first is to integrate ethical decision-making with core-discipline courses like... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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
- 21 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters
worry about scaring away candidates if 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... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
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
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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 Sep 2010
- News
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
- 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
- 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“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
- 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
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Real Estate Investing - Course Catalog
a multidisciplinary industry that requires strong analytical rigor as wells as broad strategic thinking. Educational Objectives Students will learn about the interplay of capital structures, building characteristics, stakeholders, and legal parameters. The class goals... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
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
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
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
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
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
- 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
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European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online
processing or sharing of Personal Data by a Harvard Entity when those activities are within the scope of any Relevant Law. “Relevant Law” means any personal data protection law applicable to individuals located outside the U.S. that apply... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
make in a routine and disciplined way,” Lafley says. The “disciplined way” is the major revelation of the book. For Lafley and Charan, innovation is an operational imperative driving sustainable organic growth, not something left to chance. The key: bake innovation... View Details