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  • 11 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

form a holistic judgment of the Apple experience. Q: A paradox you mention with partitioned prices is that while consumers are presented with more information on which to make a purchase decision, they sometimes give excess weight to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 17 Aug 2022
  • News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

“I’ve had a lot of unexpected twists and turns.” While preparing to attend law school, Jones discovered business classes as an undergraduate at Emory University and was hooked. “I fell in love with the qualitative aspects, the judgment... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

person is doing and just give orders, rather than rely on the judgment of those below." The research team evaluated data from some 1,000 manufacturing firms in eight countries, including detailed technology rollout histories and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

planning by judgments about the fit between creative strategy and different types of media. Not surprisingly, we found price sensitivity to be relatively weak at this stage." The second step, however, which involves choosing specific... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

the best position to make difficult judgments about your business. It shows how to turn these judgments into coherent analysis. The basic building block is the value that is created when the buyer and seller... View Details
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog

We look at the journeys of people who have succeeded because of the way they handled their failures. We will discuss the importance of exercising judgment and making consequential decisions, all with imperfect information and insufficient... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required," he observes. "Compared with operations, marketing, and strategy, we don't really know as much about how to manage research or value it, especially when... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

judgment or tactical execution. Having a metric in place that rates your priorities and weighs tradeoffs will enable you to make good decisions on the fly. Axiom #3: Learn And Adapt Bolstering your capacity to sense and respond is key to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
  • July – August 2011
  • Article

What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, Nitin Nohria and George Serafeim
A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Forecasting and Prediction; Industry Growth; Judgments; Performance; Valuation; Price; Quality; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Competency and Skills; Surveys
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  • 02 Oct 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

themselves to loans they cannot afford." Elizabeth Doty commented, "The promise that individual actions lead to societal gain also means that individual failures of judgment lead to societal risk and pain, as we are seeing . This is why I... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

determine how to address this new competitor. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707431   PublicationsJudgment in Managerial Decision Making Authors:Max Bazerman and D. Moore Publication:7th ed. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Sarah Nam, Sisi Pan and Eric Werker
During the summer of 2014, Alan Knight, general manager of corporate responsibility at the integrated steel and mining company ArcelorMittal, observed the unfolding of an Ebola epidemic in Liberia and other countries in West Africa with great concern. On the one hand... View Details
Keywords: Ebola; Epidemics; Ebola Private Sector Mobalization Group; EPSMG; Civil War; Sovereignty; Change Management; Judgments; Development Economics; Geopolitical Units; Globalized Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Safety; War; Wealth and Poverty; Welfare; Crisis Management; Mining Industry; Liberia
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  • 03 Sep 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying "The Board should choose... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage
  • 24 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 24

high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

1.16 Student Educational Records | MBA

then it also may, if legally permitted and in the Harvard Business School's judgment appropriate, disclose certain information about the disciplinary case. The disclosure may include: The student's name The violation committed The... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

the visceral state passes, and they make different judgments and decisions.” Source: Deepak Malhotra, Michael Luca, and Christopher Poliquin To investigate the effects of waiting periods, the researchers did two analyses. First, they... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Nov 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

don't know enough about the human brain to make hiring judgments based on monitoring activity within certain parts of the brain, or about the people who plan to use neuromanagement or about their motives I caution you to be careful what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Publication:Emotion Review (forthcoming) Abstract Moral problems often prompt emotional responses that invoke intuitive judgments of right and wrong. While emotions inform View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 7

and debunk the myth that behavioral and neoclassical economic perspectives need be in conflict. Cognitive, Affective, and Special-interest Barriers to Policy Making Authors:Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max Bazerman Publication:In Social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

For Guests - Commencement 2025

students can find more information and the required form on myHBS (password protected). Dress Code May weather in Boston can be variable (hot and humid, cool, or raining), so use your judgment when deciding what to wear. The Harvard and... View Details