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- 06 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
What Makes the HBS MBA unique?
lecture. Each class, you read a case about a protagonist and a decision that he/she is facing. You’re put into the shoes of the protagonist and forced to make a decision on what he/she should do, often... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
decisions about whether to quit the job he loves at Hewlett-Packard to join Apple Computer, how to define his role within Apple, whether to take on Jobs as his co-founder, whether to accept a third co-founder proposed by Jobs, and how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
you’re the only woman in the room. You don’t have a lot of natural allies to support your view.” Feel the pain: “There should be consequences when companies fail to diversify leadership. If decision makers didn’t get their annual bonuses... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Blog
What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
taking time to reflect on the reasoning behind your decisions can help you neutralize the influence of such biases. Give sufficient time and feedback. While it's natural to gravitate primarily or exclusively toward people similar to you,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Katie Rowe
quickly readmitted—“grrr.” The hospital is over capacity, so our postoperative patient spends a night in the post-procedure unit and becomes delirious—“grrr.” A family agonizes over decisions about their father’s care because no one is... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
What Makes a Good Leader?
you say is only the beginning," he states. "Your behavior, your actions, and your decisions are also ways of communicating, and leaders have to learn how to create a consistent message through all of these. It's been said many... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
- March 2016
- Article
The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk
By: Laura Huang
Securing financial resources from investors is a key challenge for many early stage entrepreneurial ventures. Given the inherent uncertainty surrounding a decision to invest in these ventures, prior research has found that experienced investors rely heavily on their... View Details
Keywords: Angel Investors; Gut Feel; Intuition; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Complexity; Decision Making
Huang, Laura. "The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 5 (October 2018): 1821–1847.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurredover more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Framework; Service Operations; Decisions; Relationships; Price; Diversification; Geography; Cost; Advertising Industry; United States
Arzaghi, Mohammad, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk. "Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14345, September 2008.
- 09 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Insights From Harvard Business School’s Peek Program
professional and personal lives, we often have to make decisions under uncertainty and constraints. The Case Method helped me to learn how to make difficult choices and resolve crises. Second, I enjoyed listening to the opinions of my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- News
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
- 2017
- Working Paper
Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey
Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. The primary reason... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management; Sustainability; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Fund; Investment Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Activist Shareholder; Engagement; Environment; Climate Change; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Employee Engagement; Global Warming; Investment; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Expectations
Serafeim, Georgios. "Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-079, February 2017.
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
ultimately a class about communication. And it was really made clear that the job of a CEO is mostly to communicate. The CEO can't make all the decisions themselves; they can't do all the work themselves, but what they can do is they can... View Details
- September 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Supplement
SUN Brewing (A) (CW)
The Khemka family of India--founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing--faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the ruble's massive devaluation in August 1998, the stock price of SUN brewing, which is publicly listed on the Luxemburg... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
more powerful engines. The decision seems to be working, Thomke says, with profits up 46 percent last year. “At the end of the day, what matters is results, and they are outperforming their peer group.” Beware of oversteering Ferrari’s... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization
the whole picture and embrace the complexity inherent in shifting one’s operations or organizational design. For example, the company’s decision to increase the use of recycled PET that is more sensitive to moisture has implications for... View Details
- February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
An Australian Ballot for California?
By: David Moss, Marc Campasano and Dean Grodzins
In early 1891, California lawmakers were considering a plan to reform the state's elections through the introduction of an “Australian” ballot. Under this new system, candidates from all qualifying parties would appear on official ballots, which would be printed by... View Details
Moss, David, Marc Campasano, and Dean Grodzins. "An Australian Ballot for California?" Harvard Business School Case 716-054, February 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
How Chase Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials
- 1997
- Book
Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right
Keywords: Decision Making
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
- December 2003 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
Alusaf Hillside Project
By: Kenneth S. Corts and John R. Wells
The aluminum industry has suffered from long periods of depressed prices and profits interspersed with relatively short-lived price and profit peaks. The case investigates why this has occured, focusing on the decision Alusaf must make on whether to invest in a major... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Business Cycles; Financial Crisis; Metals and Minerals; Financial Strategy; Investment; Price; Profit; Demand and Consumers; Industry Structures
Corts, Kenneth S., and John R. Wells. "Alusaf Hillside Project." Harvard Business School Case 704-458, December 2003. (Revised October 2014.)
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
respondents to this month's column is that judgment has a dominant role to play in some decisions while it is an element in all decisions. That assumes, of course, that we can arrive at some agreement about what the term means. Seena... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett