Decision Making Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2017 (Revised March 2022)
Case

Flashion: Art vs. Science in Fashion Retailing

Kate Wilson, retail analytics manager at Flashion, a fashion flash-sale site, is tasked with developing analytics to optimize pricing for first-exposure products on the site. Many in the industry have relied on years of experience and intuition to determine pricing—can... View Details

Keywords: Analytics; Pricing; Data; Service Operations; Forecasting and Prediction; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Mathematical Methods; Decision Making; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; United States

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01 Jun 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest

couldn’t make much of an impact in a huge hotel. Instead, he began inspecting the cleaners’ supervisors. “I learned that you manage just one level down,” he says. “If you don’t, it takes away the opportunity for your direct reports to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hospitality

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

with Anant Thaker (HBS MBA 2011) of the Boston Consulting Group and Howard Rudnick of the Tobin Project, Moss offers an alternative perspective: Perhaps we've been looking at the question the wrong way. Inequality And Making View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2008
News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

30 May 2023
News

6 Strategies to Improve Your Negotiation Skills

01 Jun 2013
News

Faculty Books

he seeks counsel from a panel of advisers, resulting in a wealth of teaching moments. Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas H. Davenport and Brook... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

May 2013
Case

Yammer (A)

By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski, Kerry Herman and Aaron Smith

In Spring 2012, Yammer was on track to become a highly successful standalone company. Yammer was a leading Enterprise Social Network (ESN), providing companies a private social network in which employees could collaborate securely and efficiently. However, later that... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Opportunities; Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Integration; Decision Choices and Conditions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Acquisition; Information Technology Industry

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Jenny is broadly interested in interpretable machine learning (ML), identity and inequality, and improving existing methods used to answer social and policy-relevant questions. Her recent projects have focused on developing tools that explore how LLMs are reshaping... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Fairness; Information Technology; Decision Making; AI and Machine Learning

23 Oct 2000
Conference Presentation

Organizational Leadership and Decision-Making: Challenges Facing General Counsel

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Organizations; Leadership; Decision Making; Law; Problems and Challenges; Legal Services Industry

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2021
Working Paper

Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock Returns

By: Ki-Soon Choi, Eric So and Charles C.Y. Wang

We study the use of firms’ book-to-market ratios (B/M) in value investing and its implications for comovements in firms’ stock returns and trading volumes. We show B/M has become increasingly detached from common alternative valuation ratios over time while also... View Details

Keywords: Valuation Ratios; Book-to-market Ratios; Investment Return; Investment; Decision Making

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June 1992
Teaching Note

Hospital Replacement Decision, Hospital Corp. of America: Financial Analysis, and Humana, Inc., Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Finance; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; United States

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1983
Article

Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended

By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Mathematical Methods

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January 1978
Background Note

Regression and Forecasting Using the AQD Package

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Mathematical Methods

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17 Jan 2024
News

AI—What Questions Do Directors Need to Ask?

January 1992
Teaching Note

Super Project, The (TN)

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note for (9-112-034). View Details

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Capital; Investment; Decisions

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April 2010
Teaching Note

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics

By: Robert S. Huckman

Teaching Note for [607008]. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Decisions; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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February 2006
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Adams Capital Management: Fund IV

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

The partners of Adams Capital Management must decide whether to start their fourth fund in early 2006 or to hold off until they have realized more exits from the earlier funds and have proved the viability of a recent change in strategy. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Business Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry

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