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  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

Seeker Beware: The Relational Costs of Advice-Seeker Decisions By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research has focused on understanding when and why people rely on (or ignore) advice and how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

understood, and improved. By so doing," Bok noted, "he has exemplified Harvard's commitment to the quality of teaching." HBS Dean John McArthur observed, "Chris has been at the forefront in the search for better ways for faculty to develop insight... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Classroom Legend

Harvard’s commitment to the quality of teaching.” HBS Dean John McArthur observed, “Chris has been at the forefront in the search for better ways for faculty to develop insight and judgment in their students and, not incidentally, in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management
  • February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
  • Case

Jaypee Infratech and the Indian Bankruptcy Code

By: Kristin Mugford, William Vrattos and Radhika Kak
In 2016, India passed a new bankruptcy law (IBC) to counter a brewing bank crisis and increased corporate distress. Homebuilder Jaypee Infratech, one of India largest distressed companies (the “dirty dozen”) began restructuring under the IBC in 2017. Two years later,... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decisions; Judgments; Voting; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Public Sector; Asset Pricing; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Bonds; Investment Return; Price; Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; Bids and Bidding; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; India; Delhi
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  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

willing to make choices-Who is more intelligent? Who is more polite?-between two white individuals (same-race decisions) than between a white and a black individual (cross-race decisions), a tendency that was enhanced when judgments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

If its purpose is to train “hands,” or technicians, or merely successful money-makers, in my judgment the course has no place in a graduate department of a university. On the other hand if its purpose is to train “heads” or future leaders... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

My HBS Eureka Moment

uncomfortable with the ethnic background of the proponents, who were proposing to start a pharmaceutical company in Mexico. I could never get comfortable, and missed a huge opportunity. The product was the birth control pill." The lesson to me was obvious: You can't... View Details
Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

Management (Harvard Business Press, 1992), coauthored with HBS professor Robert Eccles, with James Berkley. “We tried to identify what is truly essential about management even as management always changes,” says Nohria. The book proposes a new way of thinking that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • Web

1.5 Attendance | MBA

cancelled or delayed). In such instances, students are expected to be physically present in the classroom or to properly report their absence (e.g. Travel Disruption). Students who live off-campus are advised to use their judgment about... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

the effect arises by affecting people's judgments of the intrusiveness of the inquiries; Study 2C goes further by showing that the effect is altered when privacy concerns are primed at the outset of the study. This research helps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

From Where We Stand

Inclusiveness, often seen as a female trait, has a business benefit in complex situations: get more data, solicit more diverse opinions, draw on different types of talents, and then decide. Don't rush to judgment in order to appear... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others (experiment 1). These negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

that people make in their everyday lives—from choosing yogurts to choosing religions to choosing spouses—research in judgment and decision making has taken many forms. We suggest, however, that much of this research has been conducted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Local Hero

farm system, good scouting, shrewd free agent signings, and human judgment are as critical to a team’s success as fat contract offers. “ ‘Money ball’ is in vogue right now,” he adds, “and being here in Silicon Valley, of course we use... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even among trained professionals with many years of experience. Loans evaluated under more permissive incentive schemes are rated significantly less risky than the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

participate or withdraw. Students need to use judgment with respect to estimates of key variables including stabilized income, construction cost, and minimum expectations for return on investment in order to prepare their bids. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

  Working PapersA Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions Authors:Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing corporations affects several basic aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

environment, workplace safety, and community involvement, most firms do not provide this information. Second, it is not economically efficient for shareholders with a small stake in a number of companies to ferret out sufficient information to enable them to make an... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler