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- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
to the information necessary to make important choices, both the ERP and CAD systems would increase the likelihood that plant managers and production workers would make View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
challenge of serving customers with different preferences and behaviors when that model is stretched across multiple markets." As a starting point in their research, the authors focused on the organizational View Details
- Teaching Interest
Organizational Behavior
Each of us maintains a set of beliefs and general assumptions about humans and their behavior, and those assumptions form the foundation for our beliefs about what motivates individuals; about how individuals make decisions; and about the ways in which the... View Details
- Research Summary
Compensatory Transfers in Collective Decision Making
By: Jerry R. Green
Jerry R. Green is studying mechanisms that can be employed to promote efficient collective decisions while providing justifiable compensation to participants who favor different, less efficient alternatives. This type of decision problem is pervasive in business,... View Details
- 2005
- Book
Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
By: Max Bazerman
Bazerman, Max. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making. 6th ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2005. (Also published in Polish, Russian, and Japanese. Ch. 2 has been reprinted in Psychological Dimensions of Organizational Behavior and summarized in the Harvard Management Update. Ch. 7 has been reprinted in Power and Negotiation in Organizations.)
- April 2020
- Case
Ment.io: Knowledge Analytics for Team Decision Making
By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Susie L. Ma and Shlomi Pasternak
Ment.io was a software platform that used proprietary data analytics technology to help organizations make informed and transparent decisions based on team input. Ment was born out of founder Joab Rosenberg’s frustration that, while organizations collected ever... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Information Technology; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Management; Operations; Information Management; Product; Product Development; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Communications Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; Middle East; Israel
Grushka-Cockayne, Yael, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Susie L. Ma, and Shlomi Pasternak. "Ment.io: Knowledge Analytics for Team Decision Making." Harvard Business School Case 420-078, April 2020.
- September 2016
- Article
Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making
By: Max Bazerman and Ovul Sezer
In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the perpetrators were surrounded by people who could have recognized the misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and... View Details
Keywords: Ethics
Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer. "Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 136 (September 2016): 95–105.
- Research Summary
Democratic Governance and Decision Making
By: David A. Moss
Under what conditions are public policies in a democracy determined by special interests or, alternatively, by the general interest? A good deal of academic work, particularly associated with the economic theory of regulation, suggests that special interests... View Details
- 28 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
How Can Decision Making Be Improved?
- 2020
- Book
Management Accounting: Information for Decision Making
By: Anthony A. Atkinson, Robert S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura and S. Mark Young
An approach to management accounting from the perspective of a business manager. View Details
Atkinson, Anthony A., Robert S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura, and S. Mark Young. Management Accounting: Information for Decision Making. 7th ed. Cambridge Business Publishers, 2020.
- March 1992
- Article
Negotiator Cognition and Rationality: A Behavioral Decision Theory Perspective
By: M. A. Neale and M. H. Bazerman
Neale, M. A., and M. H. Bazerman. "Negotiator Cognition and Rationality: A Behavioral Decision Theory Perspective." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 51, no. 2 (March 1992): 157–175.
- December 2004 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Executive Decision Making at General Motors
By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
Describes the evolution of General Motors' strategy, organizational structure, and management processes from its founding to the present day. Focuses on the role of GM's management committee—the senior-decision-making body at the company, now called the Automotive... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Management Teams; Auto Industry
Garvin, David A., and Lynne Levesque. "Executive Decision Making at General Motors." Harvard Business School Case 305-026, December 2004. (Revised February 2006.)
- 2010
- Book
One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making
By: Steven Sinofsky and Marco Iansiti
Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy. Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book - written by Microsoft... View Details
Sinofsky, Steven, and Marco Iansiti. One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making. NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
- 1999
- Working Paper
Broadening Behavioral Decision Research: Multiple Levels of Processing
By: Douglas L. Medin and Max Bazerman
- September–October 1988
- Article
Measure Costs Right: Make the Right Decisions
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Measure Costs Right: Make the Right Decisions." Harvard Business Review 66, no. 5 (September–October 1988): 96–103.
- March 2007
- Article
Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases
By: M. H. Bazerman
Bazerman, M. H. "Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases." Capitalism and Society 2, no. 1 (March 2007).
- 2007
- Working Paper
Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases
By: Max H. Bazerman
Bazerman, Max H. "Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-049, January 2007.
- January 2014
- Other Article
The Answer is 9,142: Understanding the Influence of Disruption Risk on Inventory Decision Making
By: Mark Cotteleer, Maria Ibanez and Geri Gibbons
The question was how many units of inventory a manager should order when faced with a possible disruption in supply. The correct answer is not guesswork, but based on 150 years of theory and practice. We examine individual choices made in this critical situation—and... View Details
Cotteleer, Mark, Maria Ibanez, and Geri Gibbons. "The Answer is 9,142: Understanding the Influence of Disruption Risk on Inventory Decision Making." Deloitte Review 14 (January 2014).
- January 2006
- Article
The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
By: Howard Raiffa, John S. Hammond and Ralph L. Keeney
Keywords: Decision Making
Raiffa, Howard, John S. Hammond, and Ralph L. Keeney. "The Hidden Traps in Decision Making." HBR Classic. Harvard Business Review 84, no. 1 (January 2006).