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Creativity As a Matter of Choice: Prior Experience and Task Instruction As Boundary Conditions for the Positive Effect of Choice on Creativity

By: Roy Y.J. Chua and S. Iyengar
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Creativity; Information; Outcome or Result
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Chua, Roy Y.J., and S. Iyengar. "Creativity As a Matter of Choice: Prior Experience and Task Instruction As Boundary Conditions for the Positive Effect of Choice on Creativity." Journal of Creative Behavior 42, no. 3 (September 2008): 164–180.
  • December 2001
  • Case

SinoSecurities.com

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Fred Young
Describes a complex software project that has run into difficulties. Students must decide whether to press forward, stop the project, or reconfigure it. Illustrates many of the similarities to challenges facing U.S. and Chinese companies in this difficult arena. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Applications and Software; Decisions; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry; China; United States
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McFarlan, F. Warren, and Fred Young. "SinoSecurities.com." Harvard Business School Case 302-072, December 2001.
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Brand Choice, Purchase Incidence, and Segmentation: An Integrated Modeling Approach

By: Randolph E. Bucklin and Sunil Gupta
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Decision Choices and Conditions; Sales; Segmentation
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Bucklin, Randolph E., and Sunil Gupta. "Brand Choice, Purchase Incidence, and Segmentation: An Integrated Modeling Approach." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 29, no. 2 (May 1992): 201–215. (Finalist for the 1997 O'Dell Award, Journal of Marketing Research.)
  • 01 May 2004
  • News

Telling Tales

Keywords: Stephen Denning
  • May 1979 (Revised August 2013)
  • Background Note

Financial Analysis of Real Property Investments

By: William J. Poorvu
Develops a conceptual framework for financial analysis of real estate investments, taking into consideration the necessity for baseline data, project trends, and forecast discontinuities. View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Trends; Real Estate Industry; Financial Services Industry
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Poorvu, William J. "Financial Analysis of Real Property Investments." Harvard Business School Background Note 379-193, May 1979. (Revised August 2013.)
  • 2017
  • Report

The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors

By: Laura Huang, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson and Elaine Bolle
Early-stage financing from angel investors is critical to the success of high-growth startups. Recent estimates suggest that annual US angel investment activity may total as much as $24 billion each year, contributing to the growth and success of more than 64,000... View Details
Keywords: Angel Investors; Geography; Risk; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Demographics; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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Huang, Laura, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson, and Elaine Bolle. "The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors." Report, Overland Park, KS, November 2017.
  • August 2018
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Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls

By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop
This case covers formative events and influences in Christine Lagarde’s childhood and her trajectory from studying political science and law to heading the world’s largest law firm. As she prepares to transition back to practice in 2005, the new Prime Minister of... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Decision Making
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Battilana, Julie, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls." Harvard Business School Case 419-017, August 2018.
  • Editorial

The Power of Precise Predictions

By: Philip E. Tetlock and J. Peter Scoblic
Keywords: Politics; Foreign Policy; Forecasting and Prediction; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics
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Tetlock, Philip E., and J. Peter Scoblic. "The Power of Precise Predictions." New York Times (October 4, 2015), SR10.
  • 2011
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Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will

By: Thalia Wheatley and Christine E. Looser
One of my few shortcomings is that I can’t predict the future.
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.

Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Keywords: Free Will; Neuroscience; Responsibility; Prospection; Forecasting and Prediction; Science; Cognition and Thinking
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Wheatley, Thalia, and Christine E. Looser. "Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will." Chap. 13 in Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Lynn Nadel, 146–158. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • November 2004 (Revised April 2010)
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Module II: Moral Reasoning Class Summaries

By: Sandra J. Sucher
Presents class summaries for the The Moral Leader course. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Cognition and Thinking
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Sucher, Sandra J. "Module II: Moral Reasoning Class Summaries." Harvard Business School Module Note 605-046, November 2004. (Revised April 2010.)
  • February 2004 (Revised April 2004)
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Family Business Ownership Goals Worksheet

By: John A. Davis
Family members who either own a business or who could inherit ownership in a business are helped to clarify how they would like to have the business owned in the future. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Family Ownership; Decision Making
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Davis, John A. "Family Business Ownership Goals Worksheet." Harvard Business School Exercise 804-145, February 2004. (Revised April 2004.)
  • February 1994
  • Background Note

Causal Inference

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.
Discusses what causation is and what one can (and cannot) learn about causation from observational (nonexperimental) data. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Analytics and Data Science; Interests
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Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Causal Inference." Harvard Business School Background Note 894-032, February 1994.
  • March 1996
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African Communications Group

Describes the opportunities that confront the African Communications Group, an entrepreneurial organization that plans to introduce a wireless pay-phone system in Tanzania. Provides a foundation for the analysis of value creation and of value capture. The possibility... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Tanzania
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McGahan, Anita M., and Dale Coxe. "African Communications Group." Harvard Business School Case 796-128, March 1996.
  • 1985
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Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to Risks: Its Philosophy and Legitimacy

By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management
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Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to Risks: Its Philosophy and Legitimacy." In Values at Risk, edited by Douglas MacLean. Totowa, NJ: Roman & Allanheld, 1985.
  • 27 Apr 2022
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Rolling Back Degree Requirements Expands the Pipeline for Tech

  • August 2009
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Bank of America Sports Sponsorship

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John L. Teopaco
A major sports sponsor must decide on new, renewal, or withdrawal from significant relations with teams/leagues/events, using a distinctive approach to assessment. View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation; Financing and Loans; Marketing Strategy; Sports Industry
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Greyser, Stephen A., and John L. Teopaco. "Bank of America Sports Sponsorship." Harvard Business School Case 910-406, August 2009.
  • 2000
  • Other Unpublished Work

Career Concerns and Staged Investment: Evidence from the Venture Capital Industry

By: Malcolm Baker
I develop a model in which career concerns lead to inefficient reinvestment decisions. Managers have incentives to inflate interim returns by continuing bad projects and delaying write-offs. In the venture capital industry, the syndication of follow-on investments can... View Details
Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Valuation; Venture Capital; Investment; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Quality
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Baker, Malcolm. "Career Concerns and Staged Investment: Evidence from the Venture Capital Industry." 2000. (First draft in 2000.)
  • September 2009 (Revised February 2011)
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Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (A)

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Robert G. Eccles
Eden McCallum pioneered the network-based ("virtual") consulting firm model in the U.K. Contracting freelance consultants on a per-project basis keeps overheads lean so that Eden McCallum's fees are a fraction of the big firms' rates. Their flexible, low-cost model has... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Consulting Industry; United Kingdom
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Gardner, Heidi K., and Robert G. Eccles. "Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (A)." Harvard Business School Case 410-056, September 2009. (Revised February 2011.)
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment

By: Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz
We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Education; Marketplace Matching; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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Klijn, Flip, Joana Pais, and Marc Vorsatz. "Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-093, April 2010.
  • July 2007 (Revised August 2010)
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JP Morgan Partners - Cabela's Inc.

JP Morgan Partners (JPMP), the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase, owned 15% of Cabela's, Inc., a hunting and fishing equipment retailer in the U.S. In June of 2003, founders Dick and Jim Cabela wanted to liquidate some of their holdings. However, Cabela's was not... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Ownership Stake; Retail Industry; United States
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El-Hage, Nabil N., and Michael J. Roberts. "JP Morgan Partners - Cabela's Inc." Harvard Business School Case 208-026, July 2007. (Revised August 2010.)
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