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  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

My Misperceptions about HBS

If you're too intimidated by the people, you'll only limit your opportunities to learn, grow, make friends, and maximize your experience to the fullest while you are here. If you're too intimidated to apply, you'll miss the chance to get... View Details
  • February 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Exercise

Necessary Evils: A Diagnostic Exercise

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Andrew Molinsky
Central to the work of leaders and professionals are tasks that entail harming one party to deliver benefits or advance valued and worthy goals. Sometimes a person must, as part of his or her job, perform an act that causes emotional, material, or physical harm to... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Ethics; Management Skills
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  • 08 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 2003
  • Article

The Influence of Culture and Corporate Governance on the Characteristics that Distinguish Superior Analysts

By: Michael B. Clement, Lynn Rees and Edward Swanson
We identify characteristics of financial analysts that have been shown to be associated with relative forecast accuracy in the United States and examine these characteristics within 10 countries. We find that relative forecast accuracy is influenced by years of... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?

By: Benjamin Enke, Uri Gneezy, Brian Hall, David Martin, Vadim Nelidov, Theo Offerman and Jeroen van de Ven
Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, empirical evidence on the effect of large incentives—as present in relevant economic decisions—on cognitive biases is scant. This paper tests the effect of incentives on four widely documented biases: base rate... View Details
Keywords: Cognitive Biases; Incentives; Motivation and Incentives; Decision Making; Performance
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  • February 2021
  • Case

Board Director Dilemmas—New Year, New Timing

By: Suraj Srinivasan, David G. Fubini and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on a junior partner at a private equity (PE) firm who sits on the board of one of the firm’s portfolio companies. In the case, the board member asks the CEO to accelerate a cost-cutting initiative and looks to a seasoned industry veteran who is also a... View Details
Keywords: Board Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Strategy; Decision Making
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  • Article

Comment mobiliser les exclus du jeu politique?

By: Vincent Pons
Keywords: Elections; Voter Mobilization; France; Voting; Political Elections; France
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  • August 2011 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

Adaptive Engineering, LLC

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
The owner and CEO of Adaptive Engineering was facing an important decision: should he focus on rebuilding its core professional services business which had generated significant revenue and cash flow over the past several years, or should he focus on developing and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Service Industry; Technology Industry
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  • November 2003 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence

Argentine confectionery manufacturer, Arcor Group, seeks to implement an international strategy but in 2003, recovering from the Argentine financial crisis, thwarts globalization plans. Already Latin America's leading candy producer and an exporter to over 100... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Making; Global Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Argentina
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  • July 2004
  • Article

Trust and Reciprocity Decisions: The Differing Perspectives of Trustors and Trusted Parties

By: Deepak Malhotra
Keywords: Trust; Decision Making; Perspective
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  • 26 Jul 2013
  • News

Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker named Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School

  • 16 Nov 2023
  • News

Should Biopharma C-Suites Still Engage with China a Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association Q&A with Professor F. Warren McFarlan

  • 04 Oct 2021
  • News

Ambitious? Learn What Companies Actually Want in a CEO

  • 09 Feb 2021
  • News

How COVID experiences will reshape the workplace

  • 05 Nov 2020
  • News

Don’t Get Blindsided by Your Blind Spots

  • 26 Apr 2018
  • News

Why JPMorgan Chase is Investing Millions in Detroit

  • 22 Apr 2022
  • News

Why Many Employers Have Ditched Four-Year Degree Requirements

  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

stabilize the financial system and the economy. The case explores the details of policies, and the decision making process that led to them, that Geithner and his team devised... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Alumni Books

investors, or other members of development teams. Firing Back by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (MBA ’78, DBA ’81) and Andrew Ward (HBS Press) The authors lay out a novel five-step recovery process to rescue a career: “Fight, not flight” (face the... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 27 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

partners to work together in making the tough decisions and taking the steps needed. Success will depend on leaders who are able to stabilize the company as they identify and exploit opportunities, find new... View Details
Keywords: by Staff