Judgment And Decision Making - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 2009
Teaching Note

Nextel Partners: Put Option (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

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Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Voting; Price; Public Ownership; Valuation; Financial Liquidity; Stock Options; Management Practices and Processes; Telecommunications Industry

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06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

require, you get the desktop that meets your profile. An alternative to reducing variety would be to help consumers to navigate the variety that exists. Other manufacturers take this a step further and actually work you through the View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

making decisions based on the wealth of information they can now access. But at this point the news is big and possibly threatening. Worst of all, it's vague. If not well... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

managers, compensation committees of corporate boards, and investors themselves to make better informed decisions regarding the use of such incentives? What do you think? View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

February 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Supplement

Multifactor Models (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Cost of Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mathematical Methods; Performance Evaluation

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01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

missions, NASA missed the opportunity to identify problems (and solutions) that might have helped avoid later failures. The final set of problems that conspired against the success of FBC in the Mars program was a lack of coordination between the goals of the program... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2009
HBS Case

Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu

"fixing" elBulli turns it into just another restaurant, says Norton: "The things that make it inefficient are part of what makes it so valuable to people." Adrià's other business ventures... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

August 2021
Teaching Note

IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center

By: Shane Greenstein and Mel Martin

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-022. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Failure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Product Development; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Houston; Texas

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November 1993 (Revised July 1995)
Case

OfficePro (A)

By: John A. Quelch

The international procurement manager of an off-price office supply retail chain has to recommend which of several bids to accept for the right to supply computer diskettes to OfficePro's new French subsidiary. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Supply Chain Management; Retail Industry; France

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06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

decisions, trying to understand how they make decisions now is pretty important. Q: Please describe how the research got started. A: Jim Poterba and I started the project at... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

techniques for improving operating decisions during retail store liquidations and by demonstrating the performance of these methods in the field. February 2015 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

have the money in their account in just days, whereas in the conventional banking model small business owners may not be approved for several weeks. New Ways To Make Loan Decisions By View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

October 2010
Teaching Note

Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board (TN)

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Suraj Srinivasan

Teaching Note for 109010. View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict and Resolution; Voting; Investment Activism

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26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

have been experimenting with integrated project delivery—a collaborative process that involves unprecedented teamwork and shared decision making throughout a design View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

financing requirements—typically north of $500 million. Why study large projects? Because they offer clear examples into the process used by managers to make important financing and structuring decisions, he... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

June 1987 (Revised September 1997)
Case

Mebel, Doran & Co.

By: Samuel L. Hayes III

Puts the student in the position of a senior official of a major New York investment bank who discovers that information has leaked to the market on a confidential takeover plan that was being developed by a corporate client. The official has to decide how to deal with... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Crisis Management; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

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29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

Centennial celebration. Through it, HBS honors the important contributions made by its graduates to the development of the VC industry, and who today are estimated to make up more than 20 percent of the... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

between the goals of academia and the goals of a corporation in utilizing neuroscience. For Karmarkar, her work falls into the category of decision neuroscience, which is the study of what our brains do as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

May 1985 (Revised November 1990)
Case

Spinnaker Software Corp.

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Describes the problems faced by a company that has experienced remarkable growth, but growth which is below projections. The management must evaluate the company's position in the turbulent software industry. The two partners must then decide whether to cut back to... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Profit; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Software; Information Technology Industry

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