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- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
crisis—much like the one we're in now—is where a principled approach to leadership and decision-making is most needed. The leaders who successfully navigate their organizations through crises are ones who focused on their leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
these decisions would be easy to make if I knew what consumer demand will be,” Ferreira said. “The problem is that I have a lot of uncertainty in demand.” Ferreira believes that the trick to tactical decision-making lies in quantitative... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
then scale economies have the potential to be an obvious global advantage. Down To Cases The book's case examples and detailed decision-making maps offer a practical guide to some of the complex issues that emerge from doing business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
channels are more likely to use decision-making authority in the granting and structuring of consumer loans than those who are not. Conditional on using decision-making authority, their decisions are also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
we understand the role and appreciate that an expert who functions as our decision-making proxy makes for a much better museum-going experience” But Harvard Business School's Ray Weaver says that what Groupon is up to is much more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
rare opportunity to reimagine the workplace. What does the landscape look like now, and how strategic is the decision-making around office space? Maria Roche: I think there was a lot more experimentation earlier, in terms of letting... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
social categories. We discuss the ethical implications of these decision-making biases in the context of organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-033.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? Authors:S.P. Kothari,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
on location choices. However, industries with a significant presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that rivalry among firms plays an important role in firms' dynamic decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
job as CEO of Apple. Regarding Apple, of course, the question is what will Jobs' withdrawal from day-to-day decision-making mean for its future? If leaders often become "cult heroes," to use a term coined by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
that employees selected through such channels are more likely to use decision-making authority in the granting and structuring of consumer loans than those who are not. Conditional on using decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
University. "A lot of prior work has focused on the consequences of unethical decision-making and the factors that lead people to be unethical," says Lisa Shu, a doctoral candidate in Organizational Behavior at HBS. "This drove us to want... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
the status quo, primarily because of the lack of a decision-making mechanism amongst the brothers. The firm rapidly went downhill, before declaring bankruptcy in 1875. Purchase this case:... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to the View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
agreement about decision-making criteria. At an off-site meeting, for example, the CEO can reveal his priorities and concerns by setting the agenda while giving his team a chance to participate and buy in. A new CEO must be willing to... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
decision-making process—color, feel, and fit—are difficult, if not impossible, to communicate "virtually." Moreover, unlike books, music, and consumer electronics, the difficulty in describing the product cannot be offset easily... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
not clear what exactly corporate accountability reporting is, or how to evaluate its usefulness to different constituencies such as customers, bondholders, shareholders, employees, and communities. It's not clear how it affects managers' View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
experiments for second-year MBA students and in his 2020 book, The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World, co-written with Max H. Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Five... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
Hamel posited that we were on the verge of a "post-managerial’ society” in which “the work of managing will be less and less performed by ‘managers.’” He envisioned a future of management in which broad-based participation in learning, innovation, and View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman Abstract—The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in particular were attracted to the topic in far greater numbers, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
of late nineteenth century economist Max Weber; it’s called bureaucracy.) At the HBX Live event, Christensen explained why business practitioners should care about theory in the first place. “We teach our students to be data-driven, fact-based, and analytical in their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel