Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2010
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Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Breakeven Analysis (CW)

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery

This Excel worksheet contains sample problems, prebuilt Excel models to run breakeven analyses, and charts and graphs which help visualize the results. It is designed to accompany "Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Breakeven Analysis." View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Marketing; Decisions; Planning; Marketing Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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2008
Working Paper

Taste Heterogeneity, IIA, and the Similarity Critique

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Andrew Ainslie

The purpose of this paper is to show that allowing for taste heterogeneity does not address the similarity critique of discrete-choice models. Although IIA may technically be broken in aggregate, the mixed logit model allows neither a given individual nor the... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias

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September 1993
Supplement

Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (B)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

ALZA, a drug delivery company, must decide what and for whom to manufacture. In the past, it has licensed to pharmaceutical companies its patented system for the slow release of drugs into the human system. Therefore the company has little experience in choice of drug... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Patents; Production; Pharmaceutical Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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February 1986 (Revised March 1990)
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Copeland Corp.: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy--1975-82 (B)

By: David A. Garvin

In the (A) case, Copeland had to choose between focusing its Sidney plant by product line or by manufacturing process. Now that it has made that decision, a plant layout must be selected from two alternatives. View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Decisions; Product; Production; Design; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio

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December 2004
Article

A Multinational Perspective on Capital Structure Choice and Internal Capital Markets

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Global Range; Perspective; Capital; Decision Choices and Conditions; Markets

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October 1998
Background Note

Welfare-to-Work Information and Statistics

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

Summarizes information on the national issue of hiring people from the welfare roles. Organized by topics relevant to business, this note reviews research findings and statistics and poses questions to assist business decision-makers in assessing a company's current or... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Recruitment; Risk Management; Planning; Programs; Research; Welfare

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10 Jan 2014
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Year of the Business Remix

05 Jul 2016
Blog Post

The Softer Side of Business at HBS

decision began to hinge not on which school could teach me finance better or give me a better network (those were table stakes), but rather on which school could help me become a more thoughtful leader – one who would be more in-tune with... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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organization is costly to produce and disseminate throughout the enterprise, they maintain that an organization must decentralize its decision-making capacity. "The issue is not whether to centralize or decentralize, but rather which View Details

12 Sep 2016
Blog Post

An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Jonathan Shepherd

biggest lesson is to trust your gut. There are so many variables involved in career decisions (industry, function, location, money, family, work/life balance, etc.) that it is easy to try to think through THE answer. But if you listen to... View Details

14 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale

economic decisions play a significant role towards enacting system-wide change. “What is happening today is really interesting: we are all worried about the plastic in the oceans. We’ve got many options –we can protest or do a number of... View Details

25 Jun 2020

Get to Know HBS Series: Leaving the West Coast for HBS

Moving from the West Coast to the East Coast can come with many questions. Hear from recent alumni about their decision to make that move and spend two years at HBS and how it helped them develop both personally and professionally. View Details

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

allocation such as heuristics, decision rules, and "bottom up" approaches still effective in today's complex marketing environment? To help practicioners answer this question, Harvard Business School professors Sunil Gupta and Tom... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

September 2006
Case

Stedman Place: Buy or Rent?

By: Andre F. Perold and David S. Scharfstein

A couple has to decide whether to continue renting a townhouse or buy the one next door. Allows for a discussion of net present value, internal rate of return, and the costs and benefits of homeownership. View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Asset Pricing; Investment Return; Housing; Family Ownership; Renting or Rental; Valuation

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January 2021
Case

Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Amitabh Chandra and Amram Migdal

The operating executives of Health and Benefits for Onex Partners, Megan Jackson Frye and Sam Camens, faced a challenge: Healthcare costs for employees of Onex’s portfolio companies were continuing to rise above the consumer price index, reflecting broader trends... View Details

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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 Decisions In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Donaldson Room | About

Program for entrepreneurs that ended upon his retirement in 1993. In addition to his teaching, a decade-long study of 12 mature industrial corporations led to two important books in the 1980s, Decision Making at the Top: The Shaping of... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

A Deal on Wheels

so high, sellers typically make a few thousand dollars even after CarLotz takes its cut. “Once we realized that serving people—not selling cars—is the business we’re in, that established a basis for rooting all our decisions in creating a... View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

2012
Other Unpublished Work

What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors

By: Eugene F. Soltes and David H. Solomon

Executives of publicly-traded firms spend considerable time meeting privately with investors, despite regulation restricting their ability to convey material nonpublic information. Using a set of records of all one-on-one meetings between senior management and... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Teams; Public Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations

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