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  • November 2004 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

10 Uncommon Values®: Optimizing the Stock-Selection Process

By: Paul M. Healy and Boris Groysberg
In 2003, Steve Hash, research director at Lehman Brothers, prepared to initiate the firm's "Ten Uncommon Values" stock-picking process for the year. An investment committee had to pick the 10 best stocks from about 100 stock ideas presented by the firm's analysts. The... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Investment; Financial Strategy; Decision Making; Groups and Teams; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Lynn S. Paine

    Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

    • 14 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

    to share in decision-making and creating a culture that makes people feel safe enough to take risks and act on behalf of organizational interests. It’s also about earning trust from and offering trust to increasingly diverse stakeholders... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

      Nien-he Hsieh

      Nien-hê Hsieh is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration in the General Management Unit at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching aims at helping business leaders and organizations determine and deliver on their responsibilities. He... View Details

      • 07 Feb 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

      geographies, and more decentralized decision-making closer to the customer. That said, participants say they‘re employing more ad hoc problem-focused teams as overlays to their more permanent organizational structures. These teams almost... View Details
      Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

        Jan W. Rivkin

        Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

        Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
        • January 2025
        • Case

        Index and Active investing: Vanguard and the New Frontier of Active ETFs

        By: Marco Sammon, Luis M. Viceira and Jonathan Kanagasabai
        This case explores Vanguard’s strategic decision-making process as it considers entering the growing market for actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Set in 2024, the case places students in the position of Rodney Comegys, Vanguard’s global head of the Equity... View Details
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        • May 2020
        • Article

        Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

        By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
        Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
        Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
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        • 2015
        • Working Paper

        Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience, Negative News and Belief Updating

        By: Bradley R. Staats, Diwas S. KC and Francesca Gino
        Traditional models of operations management involve dynamic decision-making assuming optimal (Bayesian) updating. However, behavioral theory suggests that individuals exhibit bias in their beliefs and decisions. We conduct both a field study and two laboratory studies... View Details
        Keywords: Behavioral Operations; Egocentric Bias; Experience; Healthcare Operations; Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Operations; Decision Making; Health Care and Treatment
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          Location Choices under Strategic Interactions

          The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details

            Rational Habit Formation

            Regular handwashing with soap is believed to have substantial impacts on child health in the developing world. Most handwashing campaigns have failed, however, to establish and maintain a regular practice of handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests... View Details

            • May 11 2022
            • Testimonial

            Differentiating the Value of AMP and GMP

            • 08 Feb 2008
            • Working Paper Summaries

            Psychological Influence in Negotiation: An Introduction Long Overdue

            Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
            • 2012
            • Chapter

            When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams

            By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan and Lisa B. Kwan

            Purpose—We review how team members' identities and interests affect team functioning, paying special attention to subgroup dynamics triggered by fault lines and coalitions. This review sets the stage for describing novel pathways through which identities and... View Details

            Keywords: Information; Conflict of Interests; Interests; Groups and Teams; Identity; Performance
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            • 02 Feb 2011
            • Working Paper Summaries

            Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

            Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services
            • Article

            Pitfall or Scaffolding? Starting-point Pull in Configuration Decision Making

            By: Eliran Halali, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and David Leiser
            In configuration problems, such as the construction of a weekly study schedule, decision makers must assemble a combination of parts under a set of constraints. Interactions may be present between the parts, and more than a single objective function may exist, such as... View Details
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            • 2009
            • Working Paper

            Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement

            By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
            This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The... View Details
            Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decisions; Cost; Investment; Investment Return; Profit; Revenue; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Performance Efficiency; Strategy
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            • Research Summary

            Overview

            Professor Huang examines the micro-foundations of entrepreneurship: the individual-level decision-making processes that influence entrepreneurs’ ability to acquire resources that they need, yet lack, especially financial capital. Deploying a variety of methods from... View Details
            • 26 Sep 2023
            • Research & Ideas

            Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

            the motivations of hiring managers. At ShopCo, the repugnance felt by decision-makers was authentic, she says, whereas at other organizations, the same argument could be used to intentionally keep diversity at lower levels of an... View Details
            Keywords: by Kristen Senz
            • January 2025
            • Module Note

            Understanding and Addressing Gender Gaps

            By: Katherine Coffman
            This module provides a framework for students to analyze how gender stereotypes, through their impact on beliefs about others and beliefs about ourselves, contribute to gender gaps in the workplace. The module proceeds in three parts. First, through a case and an... View Details
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