Publications

January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
Case

National Logistics Management: Founder Decisions

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins

Scott Taylor, CEO & founder of NLM, is a serial entrepreneur faced with an important decision. As his industry consolidates, he knows that his company must grow quickly, yet he believes he has reached the limit of what organic growth can achieve. Should he accept the... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Supply Chain

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2017
Article

Making Transparency Transparent: The Evolution of Observation in Management Theory

By: Ethan Bernstein

Observation is key to management scholarship and practice. Yet a holistic view of its role in management has been elusive, in part due to shifting terminology. The current popularity of the term “transparency” provides the occasion for a thorough review, which finds... View Details

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13 Jul 2016
News

Howard Raiffa, Mathematician Who Studied Decision Making, Dies at 92

04 Apr 2013
News

Why our decisions get derailed and how to counter them

26 Sep 2013
Conference Presentation

Next Generation Approaches to Managing Business Conduct

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Ethical Decision Making; Ethical Behavior; Business Ethics; Decision Making; Ethics

August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
Case

National Storage Affiliates: The REIT IPO Decision

By: Charles F. Wu, Max de la Bruyére and Gregory D. Himmel

In 2015, two years after founding National Storage Affiliates (NSA), Arlen Nordhagen and Tamara Fischer had an important decision to make. Should they proceed with NSA’s IPO? Although they had targeted to receive $15–17 a share, it was now apparent that the figure was... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry

October 1980 (Revised April 1981)
Background Note

Structure of the U.S. Government Decision-Making Process

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Decision Making; Government and Politics; United States

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17 Dec 2020
Working Paper Summaries

How Do CEOs Make Strategy?

Keywords: by Mu-Jeung Yang, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and Jan Rivkin

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

instead concentrate on ways to make our own decision-making processes more transparent to others and to ourselves. Edward Hare put it this way: "Openness and honesty are the sunlight that's needed to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Aug 2010
News

Google Wave Decision Shows Strong Innovation Management

August 2000
Case

Microsoft's Vega Project: Matt MacLellan's Decision

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Meg Glinska

Supplements the case. Designed as an in-class handout. View Details

Keywords: Decisions

December 1998
Supplement

Vermeer Technologies: Making Transitions

By: Ashish Nanda

After being acquired by Microsoft, Vermeer Technologies executives discuss the process of integrating their team into Microsoft. View Details

Keywords: Integration; Acquisition; Information Technology Industry

September 2005
Case

Martha Goldberg Aronson: Leadership Decisions at Mid-Career

By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean

In 2005, Martha Goldberg Aronson must decide whether to accept an overseas posting in a functional role with Medtronic Corp. The move would be a professional stretch, but would entail leaving a position with a plan half completed and moving her young family overseas.... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Leadership

2007
Chapter

Negotiation Analysis: Between Decisions and Games

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Negotiation; Decision Making; Game Theory

08 Aug 2022
News

Decisions Don’t Have to Be Either-Or

2002
Chapter

Research on Interactions among Management Decisions

By: Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Decisions; Management Systems; Research

2003
Other Unpublished Work

Compensatory Transfers in Two-Player Decision Problems

By: Jerry R. Green

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory