Judgment - Publications - Faculty & Research

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
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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

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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

19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

http://hbr.org/product/handbook-of-leadership-theory-and-practice/an/12326-HBK-ENG Big Five Personality Factors, Hardiness, and Social Judgment as Predictors of Leader Performance Authors:Scott Snook, Paul T. Bartone, Jarie Eid, Bjorn... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2010
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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

January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
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Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In March 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to pitch banks in anticipation of their annual auction while negotiating directly with private lender Eager. Responses from the majority of private lenders—including Juno’s 2019 partner—were not... View Details

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10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

team observed that members who invested in deals that were also receiving capital from professional investors fared better, as did those who joined other IC members in investing, as opposed to those who were the single IC investor in a deal. In other words, relying on... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

20 Feb 2008
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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

08 Nov 2017
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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
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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

25 Aug 2015
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First Look Tuesday

foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details

20 Aug 2014
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Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

infringing on technology patents—and win many of them In the past few years, NPEs have sued Apple, Samsung, eHarmony, Martha Stewart Living, and hundreds of other companies, sometimes winning judgments for hundreds of thousands of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

17 Nov 2003
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Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

also issued a ruling against Canadian practices, the balance of its judgment was that the Brazilian government had been doing a great deal more to subsidize Embraer indirectly. Still, one lesson is that shining a spotlight on the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Oct 2002
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not have an already well-developed moral compass. While we should not have to point out to students what is “right” and what is “wrong,” we can guide them through the gray areas of decision-making. HBS puts these concerns front and center with the ethics module and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsiegel/SiegelLichtSchwartz_EFDI_20120310.pdf Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews Authors:U. Simonsohn and F. Gino Publication:Psychological Science... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

Experiment 2 demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 3 indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2003
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Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

people on campus to meet with our students. That kind of interaction would make a deep and valuable impression. Hall: We need to show our students how incremental errors of judgment can lead down a slippery slope to a whole heap of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

04 Jan 2010
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Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

comfort level, even at the expense of others. It may be this activated social norm that affects people's judgment and decision-making. Alternatively, exposure to luxury may directly increase people's personal desire, causing them to focus... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

(EC) issued an antitrust judgment against Microsoft Corp., levying a record fine of 497 million euros ($613 million) and mandating changes of commercial behavior and bundling of Windows Media Player with Microsoft's Windows operating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2023 (Revised December 2023)
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Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Tom Quinn

As autonomy became a more significant part of modern life – most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas – ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less... View Details