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- January 2013
- Supplement
Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (B)
By: Willy Shih and Ying Zhou
Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and the technical project lead, and the (B) case describes the perspective of a senior manager who is the head of the New... View Details
Keywords: Technical Decision-making; Decision Making Process; Fuel Cells; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Business Plan; Business Exit or Shutdown; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts
Shih, Willy, and Ying Zhou. "Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 613-067, January 2013.
- Research Summary
Incommensurable Values and Rational Decision Making
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Rational decision making is widely thought to require comparing alternatives with respect to a single measure of value. Accordingly, asking managers to consider values in addition to economic efficiency has been criticized on the grounds that doing so violates the... View Details
- January 2014
- Supplement
Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (B)
By: Juan Alcacer and Nancy Hua Dai
The case reveals that Ford decided to open its own e-coating plant in Gujarat, India, and details how the decision was made at different organizational levels. View Details
Keywords: Foreign Investment; Organizational Alignment; Strategic Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives; Communication; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Business Processes; Foreign Direct Investment; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Gujarat
Alcacer, Juan, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-015, January 2014.
- Article
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Kaplan and Ilya Strebulaev
For decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they’ve backed—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and more—are constantly in the headlines, very little is known about what VCs actually... View Details
Gompers, Paul A., Will Gornall, Steven Kaplan, and Ilya Strebulaev. "How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 2 (March–April 2021).
- 2014
- Book
Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance
By: Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan
Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance enables future managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company’s decision-making teams. This new program from established authors... View Details
Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan. Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance. Prentice Hall, 2014.
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Empower Your Employees to Make Better Decisions
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
The Myth of Rational Decision Making
- 2022
- Chapter
A Compass for Decision Making
By: Lynn S. Paine
Book Abstract: The second edition of Responsible Leadership offers orienting knowledge on how to lead in a world of contested values—a world where leadership work extends beyond leaders and direct reports to a whole range of stakeholders inside and outside an... View Details
Paine, Lynn S. "A Compass for Decision Making." Chap. 9 in Responsible Leadership. 2nd edition, edited by Nicola Pless and Thomas Maak, 154–167. London: Routledge, 2022.
What You Don't Know About Making Decisions
Most executives think of decision making as a singular event that occurs at a particular point in time. In reality, though, decision making is a process fraught with power plays, politics, personal nuances, and institutional history. Leaders who recognize this make... View Details
- 1979
- Book
Incentives in Public Decision Making
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. Incentives in Public Decision Making. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1979.
- Oct 12 2016
- Interview
Improving Decision Making & Collaboration
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Consumer Decision Making and Behavioral Research
John Gourville’s research focuses on consumer behavior, especially in the areas of pricing and consumer decision making. In the area of pricing, for instance, he has looked at the role of time on how consumers interpret and react to product costs and prices.... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
to the information necessary to make important choices, both the ERP and CAD systems would increase the likelihood that plant managers and production workers would make View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2010
- News
Making the Decision to Replace Yourself
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Compensatory Transfers in Collective Decision Making
By: Jerry R. Green
Jerry R. Green is studying mechanisms that can be employed to promote efficient collective decisions while providing justifiable compensation to participants who favor different, less efficient alternatives. This type of decision problem is pervasive in business,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Timeless Advice for Making a Hard Choice
- 2005
- Book
Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
By: Max Bazerman
Bazerman, Max. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making. 6th ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2005. (Also published in Polish, Russian, and Japanese. Ch. 2 has been reprinted in Psychological Dimensions of Organizational Behavior and summarized in the Harvard Management Update. Ch. 7 has been reprinted in Power and Negotiation in Organizations.)