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January 2019 (Revised March 2020)
Case

Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018

By: Emil Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Shawn O'Brien

In early 2018, Blackstone announced that John McCormick would succeed Tom Hill as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), the largest fund-of-hedge funds in the world by a sizeable margin. As new CEO, McCormick must... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Expansion; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry

October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
Case

Social Finance, Inc.

By: Shawn Cole and Fanele Mashwama

This case begins in February 2019 as Tracy Palandjian, co-founder and CEO of Social Finance Inc., prepares for a board meeting that will determine the future strategy of the social enterprise. Social Finance is a non-profit in the impact investment space founded in... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investment; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions

February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
Module Note

Antigone: The Challenge of Right Versus Right

By: Sandra J. Sucher

A summary of the major themes discussed in the second class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Decision Choices and Conditions; Problems and Challenges

September 2003 (Revised October 2003)
Teaching Note

Work Patterns at Ditto (TN) (A), (B), (C), and (D)

By: Leslie A. Perlow

Teaching Note to (9-404-055), (9-404-056), (9-404-057), and (9-404-058). View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions

September 2000
Case

Quokka Sports

By: Stephen P. Bradley, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Stephanie Mason Ogborne and Julie C. Toscano

Quokka Sports is an example of one of the new broadband services focused in total immersion sports. Quokka faces two issues: 1) the broadband infrastructure is emerging slowly so the type of services offered needs to be decided on. 2) Quokka faces an explosion of... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Decisions; Information Publishing; Infrastructure; Competition; Advertising Industry; Web Services Industry

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June 1998 (Revised January 2002)
Teaching Note

Baker Precision Instruments, Inc., TN

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Donald Rosenfield

Teaching Note for (9-687-052). View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Production; Decisions; Technology; Planning; Performance Capacity; Management; Manufacturing Industry

July 1996
Case

Craig Parks (A)

By: David A. Thomas and Lisa J. Chadderdon

Craig Parks is a 1992 HBS graduate who, without much deliberation, returns to work for his former employer, Taylor Burton on Wall Street. The choice proves to be a poor fit for Craig. The case documents his decision-making process, personal history, and the dilemma he... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; Problems and Challenges

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

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

February 2006
Case

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

February 1995
Article

Does Familiarity Breed Trust? The Implications of Repeated Ties on Contractual Choice in Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Trust; Contracts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Alliances

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21 Feb 2023
News

Why Leaders Should Rethink Their Decision-Making Process

01 Jun 2008
News

The $4 Billion Question

It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about the complexities and conflicts... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

24 Apr 2014
News

Setting the standards higher for safety and success

Cynthia Carroll (MBA 1989), former CEO of Anglo American PLC, talks about the impact of her decision to make mining safety the company's highest goal. (Published April 2014) View Details

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

arises from behavioral biases and misperceptions of probability distributions. Finally, nonpecuniary taste-based factors may be important in motivating both the decisions to enter into and to persist in entrepreneurship. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

gold-mining company, and to arrive at a decision (whether Wellfleet should accept it or not). At the same time, students will learn that gray-area risk decisions and, in particular, risk-adjusted performance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

the point that given the rarity of the strategic approaches to resource allocation, district leaders need more guidance and tools to help them make better decisions and manage the consequences, particularly when they are under enormous... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2012 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Best Buy in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In June 2012, Best Buy was in crisis. In 1996, Best Buy overtook Circuit City as the world's leader in consumer electronics retailing; however, 18 years later, Best Buy now found this position threatened. With $51 billion in revenues, it was still the biggest CE... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Competitive Strategy; Ethics; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Retail Industry

2010
Working Paper

Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Game Theory; Personal Characteristics