David E. Bell - Publications - Faculty & Research

Concerns a lumber wholesaler who has been asked to give a forward price commitment. The market price has been volatile and the type of wood is different from that traded on the futures market. The question is: What to do about customer's request? View Details

Keywords: Customers; Markets; Price; Forest Products Industry

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01 Oct 1999
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A Constructive Summer at HBS

was completed on July 1. HBS chief of operations David Moffatt describes the site as an easy one to work with. "We are operating in a limited space, but because it's an on-campus site, we don't have the kind of constraints one would find,... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 1998
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HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

Thompson, who was joined by Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and CEOs Gerald Greenwald of United Airlines, John E. Pepper of Procter & Gamble, and Raymond W. Smith of Bell Atlantic. "Somebody To Tell Me... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Agriculture and Business, Emeritus. “Ray left this amazing legacy that my colleagues and I have continued to move forward,” Alvarez says. “He saw that people in the food industry needed to talk to each other to understand the issues they each face.” As faculty chair of... View Details

Sep 08 2016
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Aligning Your Company's Strategy

September–October 2012
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One-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions

By: Ali E. Abbas and David E. Bell

We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility functions that permit preference dependencies among the attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form,... View Details

Keywords: One-switch; Utility Independence; Risk Aversion; Multiattribute Utility; Decision Making

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01 Jun 2006
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Faculty Books

Create Corporate Synergies by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (DBA ’73) (HBS Press) Professor Kaplan and his colleague apply their Balanced Scorecard management system to corporate-level strategy, describing how highly successful... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2004
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Alumni Bookshelf

The Big Book of New Design Ideas edited by David E. Carter (OPM 26, 1998) (Harper Design International) In his 100th book, Carter, an expert on logo design and corporate identity, has assembled the best... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2013
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Alumni News | Book Briefs

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle over Who Decides What We Eat by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Chelsea Green Publishing) Do Americans have the right to get their food... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services