Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (688) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (688) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 26 of 688 Results →
  • 08 Oct 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

further thought: "Does increasing transparency and visibility of the ratios help increase the ability for shareholders and boards to make better choices?" He commented, "One of the best agents to advocate for the right level of pay will be CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 26 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

judgments are changing, modest expenditures on copy research can prevent blowing much more money on ineffective messaging. Adding a few questions to standard tracking studies is a low-cost way to shed light on changes in customer... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details
  • 20 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

infringing on technology patents—and win many of them In the past few years, NPEs have sued Apple, Samsung, eHarmony, Martha Stewart Living, and hundreds of other companies, sometimes winning judgments for hundreds of thousands of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services
  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

also issued a ruling against Canadian practices, the balance of its judgment was that the Brazilian government had been doing a great deal more to subsidize Embraer indirectly. Still, one lesson is that shining a spotlight on the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Sam Hayes

not have an already well-developed moral compass. While we should not have to point out to students what is “right” and what is “wrong,” we can guide them through the gray areas of decision-making. HBS puts these concerns front and center with the ethics module and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 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
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

judgment tasks and underweighting of rare events in decisions from experience. The current paper presents three laboratory experiments and a field study that explore this pattern. The results suggest that the overestimation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 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
Related
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsiegel/SiegelLichtSchwartz_EFDI_20120310.pdf Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews Authors:U. Simonsohn and F. Gino Publication:Psychological Science... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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
Related
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Teaching & The Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Collection (olvwork377909). Show caption Hide caption The Case Method Classroom Impact on Research & Curriculum Teaching & The Case Method: Footnotes 19 C. Roland Christensen, “Premises and Practices of Discussion Teaching,” Education for View Details
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

participants prefer borrowing less when a free formal savings account is available. Take-up patterns suggest that requests by others for participants to share their resources may be a key obstacle to saving. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2451036... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Karen Tumulty Reports on America

1993 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. "My biggest adjustment in leaving the LA Times, a daily newspaper, for Time, a weekly magazine," notes Tumulty, "was that here we have to make judgments days in advance about what... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

just get rid of that CEO and go find another one? I think that depends upon the judgment of the directors and their understanding of why a particular strategy is not successful. But the board certainly has a responsibility to be in the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

judgment and be loyal to the corporation. As one director told us, "Our board lawyers say, 'You know, the board members are not supposed to be making the management decisions. You're just supposed to be comfortable that the management is... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch