Publications

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

process, we have weakened critical institutions and the principles and standards of judgment that ought to stand as a protection against conflicts of interest. We need solutions that are driven by a much broader conception of what went... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

Forthcoming
Article

People Overestimate How Harshly They Are Evaluated for Disengaging from Passion Pursuit

By: Zachariah Berry, Brian J. Lucas and Jon M. Jachimowicz

The call to pursue one’s passion is ubiquitous advice, and prior research highlights the many upsides to doing so. To pursue one’s passion sustainably, people need to try different pursuits— and critically, drop those that are not tenable for them. However,... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Attitudes; Perception; Judgments; Behavior; Goals and Objectives

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February 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

GE's Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Follows the actions of GE CEO, Jeff Immelt, as he implements a growth strategy for the $150 billion company in a tough business environment. In four years, he reinvigorates GE's technology, expands its services, develops a commercial focus, pushes developing countries,... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Judgments; Global Strategy; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

one reader in the comments section of Oprah.com. "Oprah—you should be ashamed of yourself!" “Let's replace our judgment with curiosity” Among scholars, it's called "intersectionality"—the obvious yet complex idea that gender interacts... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Consumers Value Global Brands

developing countries like China and India as they are in developed countries in Europe. What we didn't find was anti-American sentiment that colored judgments about U.S.-based global brands. Since American companies dominate the... View Details

Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor

March 1997 (Revised November 2013)
Case

Purity Steel Corporation, 2012

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila

Managers introduce a new performance evaluation system based on sales growth and return-on-investment (ROI). A branch manager wonders whether his new warehouse should be leased to mitigate the impact on ROI. Formulas and performance calculations are provided. A... View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Judgments; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Efficiency; Compensation and Benefits; Salesforce Management; Performance Consistency; Performance Productivity; Steel Industry

20 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One

over time. Leading businesses has made me appreciate these lessons early: making decisions in ambiguous environments, considering the impact of your judgment on others, and listening to those in your organization to approximate the right... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa

also chairs the advisory board of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. “As alumni, we need to give students the benefit of our judgment so that they aren’t always reinventing the wheel.” That meeting Belo-Osagie had with Faust two years... View Details

2011
Working Paper

Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior

By: Francesca Gino and Sreedhari D. Desai

Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Moral Sensibility; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Welfare

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11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

both the pace of globalization in today's world, and the reappearance of multiple critics. This book is motivated by the belief that it is important to provide robust historical evidence on which to inform opinions and judgment about both... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

environmental problem affect their judgment of the scientific evidence that identifies the problem. Pulling the wool over your own eyes may convince you that you've averted disaster. In the long run, however, the fact that you can't see... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt

Web

1.14 Academic Review / Academic Withdrawal | MBA

Program, the APC must be able to conclude that there is a reasonable probability, in the judgment of the Committee, that the student can successfully complete the specified academic standards of the MBA Program in the following academic... View Details

Portrait Project

Tony Deifell

virtue of my skin color, gender, and Harvard education. Sometimes the cracks seems small and easy to overlook – saying people's names incorrectly, not giving thanks before a meal, forgetting my mom's birthday (she'd say that was a big crack), and being too View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

certainly anticipated something very large because the parallels are not just with the Great Depression but with the financial crisis of 1914, which in many ways was more spectacular. So, this was a case of history informing judgments... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

overweighted in probability judgments but are underweighted in repeated decisions under uncertainty. Two laboratory studies examine both decisions and probability assessments within the same paradigm. The results reveal overweighting and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

Enron case should not be taken as a one-off judgment by a business school professor. Many years ago, at the dedication of the Harvard Business School campus on June 24, 1927, Owen Young—a lawyer, visionary capitalist, founding chairman of... View Details

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

2010
Working Paper

Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions

By: Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman

We explore interventions at the individual level and focus on recognized cognitive barriers from behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that have particular relevance to... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Consumer Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias

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July 2009 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold

By: Anette Mikes

This case motivates a debate on the role of staff functions, such as risk management: what does it mean for them to be independent, and at the same time, to partner the business lines? The case describes the risk assessment process in the corporate banking arm of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Credit; Banks and Banking; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods