Decision Making Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on work... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

September 13, 2023
Article

The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker

By: Nitin Nohria

Chief executives are responsible for guiding corporations, so the role inevitably requires making many decisions. But people overestimate the level of personal involvement CEOs have in this process. Instead of making decisions, CEOs tend to shape decisions, by... View Details

Keywords: Problem Solving; Delegation; Leadership Style; Decision Making; Time Management; Power and Influence

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February 2016 (Revised June 2016)
Case

Curtis LLP: A Case on Cases

By: Nikolaos Trichakis

A product market firm faces an inventory investment decision in the face of demand uncertainty. To hedge against some of the uncertainty, the firm contemplates an additional fixed investment that would offer the flexibility of diverting inventory in case of weak sales.... View Details

Keywords: Dynamic Decision Making Under Uncertainty; Operations Management; Inventory Management; Real Options; Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations

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01 Jun 1987
Conference Presentation

Group Decision Support Systems: Determinants of Success

By: D. Vogel, J. F. Nunamaker, L. M. Applegate and B. R. Konsynski

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Success

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30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

apply came from talking to HBS alumni. While each individual had unique experiences and found varying degrees of career success, not one regretted the decision to attend. I never detected a single trace of regret. That might not be the... View Details

October 2009
Article

Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals

By: James K. Sebenius

Exemplified by the pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game theory and to his later... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Game Theory

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18 Jan 2016
News

Why Sleeping on a Decision May Not Help You

June 1995
Supplement

Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Macintosh Version

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Decision Making; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms

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October 1994
Supplement

Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Windows Version

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Decision Making; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Food and Beverage Industry

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Teams | New Venture Competition

Teams Social Enterprise Track Winners, 2025 Lexi Linh Pham (MDE 2025) Siddharth UR (MDE 2025) Jen Li (MBA 2025) Luke Fiorante (MDE 2026) Social Enterprise Track Winner Breaking language barriers with AI-powered medical interpretation for... View Details

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

who has studied how companies make organizational decisions in industries such as health care and education. “They are figuring out how to use the information of managers and combine it with this new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
Case

High Liner Foods, 2015

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Strategic Decision Making; Family Business; Commodities; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; Canada

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14 Jun 2023
Research & Ideas

Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

environments where candor is expected and where employees can speak up without fear of retribution. When employees feel psychologically safe, they’re empowered to iterate and take risks—leading to better team performance. “You no longer... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11

With the U.S. financial markets closed, Thomas-Graham and the CNBC staff had to determine what sort of coverage they would provide viewers. “I felt our unique added value was to cover the story as a business network,” she says. “We’re a news organization, but we’re not... View Details

Keywords: terrorism; leadership; television; news; stock market; decision making; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

interested in why some star analysts were able to maintain their star rating over this period while others had a harder time doing so. We found that having high-performing colleagues in different locations in the firm—at the team level,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Oct 2019
News

When It’s OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

Foundation Clinton Fellows. Part-time, we also have an urban planner working on policy and an architect. Our annual budget of about $200,000 is part grant-funded and part fees-generated from consulting assignments. What makes you most... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

23 Sep 2016
Working Paper Summaries

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev; Financial Services

25 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

long-term counseling relationship. Understanding what is involved in a decision to seek counseling, the SAS team is committed to assisting students in finding the most appropriate resources for their... View Details

June 2010 (Revised December 2013)
Case

Hang Lung Properties and the Chengdu Decision (A)

By: John D. Macomber, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong

A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project cost might be in excess of $1 billion U.S. for over 4,000,000 square feet of building. Hang Lung Properties... View Details