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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
emotional reaction that leaves the conscious brain incapable of making a rational response. Understanding the irrationality of human behavior is essential for understanding how people relate - or do not relate - to each other, which is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
to pay anything they want for a product, a rational consumer should pay nothing, and that’s not a business model anyone can sustain. So how much do people tend to pay? First, most consumers pay more than zero, but beyond that our data... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
which often assumes that decision makers are rational and understand the implications of their choices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-001.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
world characterized by increasing complexity reconsidering profit as being the sole and superior criterion for business success, is the only rational approach to take." On the other hand, Dan Wallace argued, "The presumption... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
dysfunctional competition, while also providing tools that foster rational decision making. Consider this hypothetical question posed in the paper: A. If you die in an auto accident, your heart will be used to save another person's life.... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
measure. The possibility of value incommensurability is thought to raise deep questions about practical reason and rational choice as well as related questions concerning topics as diverse as akrasia, moral dilemmas, the plausibility of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
Dilip Soman Abstract Decision researchers have long been interested in behaviors that deviate from rational choice. Of these, the compromise effect has received considerable attention, with it repeatedly shown that the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
rational thinking. It enhanced my confidence, so that even as a physician, I would be able to compete in business and make lifelong learning a passionate experience." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Governor, The Peres Center for Peace Member,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who participate in operating systems are fully rational or at least can be induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Farjoun argues that we have neglected the full array of modes of cognition between rational choice and feedback-based adaptive learning and have therefore overstated the role of our focal mode, reasoning by analogy. Third, he highlights... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- Web
Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
expect you to bring them, and how to do you build this out in a rational manner that investors will believe; building a business plan; developing budgets and milestones; intellectual property considerations and licensing/creation. When,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
Rolling Up China's Cement Industry Joseph L. Bower and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Case 312-067 The Chinese government has charged Song Zhiping with the job of rationalizing China's cement industry. He has acquired 200 plus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Rational Blueprint for Success, by William N. Thorndike Jr. (Photos: Harvard Business School) “The author, a practicing physician and professor at Harvard’s Medical School and School of Public Health, argues that end-of-life quality is an... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
that a collaborative management style in the real world would be equally effective and essential.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “There is no substitute for good, old-fashioned planning and analysis. You can’t rationalize excessive use of ‘gut feel’... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
announcement-leading to even greater use of the same production tool. Two controlled lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases, not rational expectations, drive the effect. Our research contributes not only... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
century will be? How might we behave in this new, uncertain, and more dangerous environment? Will our actions be rational or irrational? A select group of scholars, innovators, and Nobel Laureates was asked to address challenges to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
have no identifying documents at all, and yet multiple documents are required to access government services, such as ration cards for subsidized food. Indians without the necessary documents are often denied services or resort to bribing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even incentive payments were adjusted upward to reflect these... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
very rational view of people, and workers were almost considered like widgets." —Ian Larkin For instance, Norton and several other researchers ran an experiment at a large American amusement park, documented in the paper Paying to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel