Difficult Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your children learn how to do the View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

addiction treatment alone, but administering a program that tracks an individual’s healthy behaviors, and provides incremental rewards along the way, was difficult in traditional treatment settings. From those conversations came... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Profile

Max Reichel

will make decisions in difficult situations." The diversity of the student body not only improves the learning experience, but offers a practical benefit long after Max completes his MBA. "Being... View Details

Portrait Project

Sabina Robinov

diagnosed with cancer. After an internal struggle, I made the difficult decision to move to the US and risk missing the precious time my father has left. I chose to focus on building myself professionally... View Details

17 Aug 2020
News

Democratizing Medicine

and get back to them with relevant insights about their specialty. And that helps primary care clinicians make a much more informed decision in primary care, therefore improving the patient care plan and avoiding unnecessary cost. “So... View Details

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

Typically, this involves looking closely at the roles and decision rights of various parts of the business, as well as changing the behavior of people at all levels. Public, organization-wide conversations about such fundamental issues... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

It's an unhappy yet unavoidable fact: Sometimes, retail chains go out of business. Moreover, even healthy chains periodically must close down some existing stores. When stores have to be liquidated—when "everything must go"—a series of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

23 Oct 2019
News

Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

learning on campus and—by partnering with Harvard Business Publishing—in business classrooms around the world. The required Strategy course, for example, includes the “Strategic Brew” simulation, which puts all 900 first-year MBA students through an intensive,... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

01 Feb 2002
News

Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable

carry them out. You need an informant - and that probably means you have to know a terrorist. I've been involved in foreign policy for more than 35 years. There is no field more dependent on good intelligence than counterterrorism, and I've never seen an area where... View Details

Keywords: counterterrorism; terrorism; National Security and International Affairs; Government

22 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Mary-Kate Johnson

Business School but my partner is a first year student at HBS. I can tell you from firsthand experience that students have a lot on their plate. They speak with a lot of organizations and meet many recruiters. It's often difficult for... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

09 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 9

compliance costs of traditional GAAP are the price of high-quality accounting standards. Balancing these powerful interests, Brennan must make a decision on the PCC; at stake is U.S. GAAP's ability to facilitate capital allocation View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

My Real Career

asset value. We discussed the triumphs and tragedies of raising children and how difficult it really is to make decisions amid a maelstrom of imperfect information. I found sectionmates had become intimate... View Details

Keywords: Liesl Pike Moldow; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

marketing specialist with an engineering background, DiCamillo immediately set about restructuring Polaroid, filling key positions with new people, "refreshing the brand," as he puts it, and instituting cost-cutting measures to stem a decade of lagging performance.... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 1999
News

Pearson Hunt

the record of a lecture to an alumni club, which my secretary and I deciphered and did our best to transform into something publishable. With no cues for sentence or paragraph breaks, this transformation from disk to text was difficult... View Details

Keywords: Pearson Hunt

01 Mar 2010
News

The Meaning of Ramadi

given, a day that so many of my dead comrades would love to have?” As an infantry officer, when every decision involves life and death, you develop greater patience with small inconveniences, an understanding of what really matters, and... View Details

Keywords: Donovan Campbell; National Security and International Affairs; Government

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

"Boardroom Challenges," The Future of Boards Why so many directors were reflecting on the board's role is difficult to pinpoint. A partial answer undoubtedly rests in the fact that regulations and laws offer little guidance about what... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

15 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the optimal policy is not to hold reserves at all. This finding is... View Details