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- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
less.” LEADING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY More Stories in This Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
hypotheses. And, again, there are other benefits. This stage of an ICP often leads to faster decision-making and pivots in a venture where founders and others have strong entrenched opinions about why things have or have not worked.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
others. Some contributors highlight how expedited flows of information allow business professionals to develop new knowledge practices. They analyze dynamics ranging from the decision-making processes of the Federal Reserve Board to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1509/jm.13.0228 May 2015 Management Science Asymmetric Effects of Favorable and Unfavorable Information on Decision-making Under Ambiguity By: Peysakhovich, Alexander, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
extremely important in this setting. Many scans are submitted by hospitals in emergency situations, so quicker analyses may lead to faster decision-making and better patient outcomes. The outsourcing firms, of course, also benefit by... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
at all than those shoppers who sampled only 6 flavors; considering too many options made it too hard to choose one.) The Underthinker The problem is that time-crunched managers often swing too far to the other end of the decision-making... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making within drug discovery and (2) institute numerical metrics—jointly affecting all R&D scientists—for the progression of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
general managers for global businesses," he says. "They are going to make decisions based on reports from countries where they've never set foot. FIELD helps them understand the limitations to this decision-making process."... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13530 Cases & Course MaterialsBest Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms Harvard Business School Note 804-176 Describes investment decision-making processes, based on interviews with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
for finance professionals striving to make well-informed financial decisions. Political homogeneity creates potential risks in the workplace. When decision-makers share the same political views, they risk creating echo chambers that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
with women who were partners for at least five years (listed as such in both 1995 and 2000). We believed that having a woman on the decision-making team would, 1) attract more deals from women entrepreneurs, and 2) might actually have... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
dampen competition online and enable price discrimination in-store. Its effectiveness in these respects depends on the decision-making stage of consumers and the heterogeneity of their preference for the online versus store channels.... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
http://hbr.org/product/non-equity-financing-for-entrepreneurial-ventures/an/814005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-010 Decision Making at the Top: The All-Star Sports eBusiness Division Describes a senior management team's strategic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
other aspect of my life for professional achievement, but professional achievement has been at the center of my decision-making process throughout my adult life." At first, Tony's crime and confession are hard to explain. By looking... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
policy and has put out a formal request for information to help guide that decision-making process, to which Trichakis, Bertsimas, and Farias are contributing. Their key idea is to propose a new way of thinking about the problem. So far,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
as a clean and green country may have been the major constraint. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51580 Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948–1974) By: Casadesus-Masanell,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
examination. This book combines insights and lessons from business practice, government policy, and individual decision-making to give voice to data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
studies drivers of regulatory behavior as well as the resulting decision-making process of managers within regulated organizations. In the paper The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior, forthcoming in the Journal of Financial... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
three presidents and two prime ministers: Jefferson, whom he called "the hardest possible case," Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, comparing their approaches to decision-making with... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
professionals and understand professional norms. As long as there is a fair hearing, it’s perfectly fine to get relevant information into the decision-making process.” The most important thing for academics to keep in mind, says Moss, is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding