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  • August 1970
  • Case

Hawthorne Plastics

An "imperfect tester" problem involving the decision of how to produce batches of plastic strapping, given uncertainty about the length of the molecular chain in the raw material. A decision on whether to test the raw material and a choice of production process must be... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Mathematical Methods
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  • July–August 2018
  • Article

The Other Diversity Dividend

By: Paul Gompers and Silpa Kovvali
Researchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance—especially at large companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Decision Making; Finance; Performance Improvement; Venture Capital
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  • January 26, 2016
  • Article

Hiding Personal Information Reveals the Worst

By: Leslie K. John, Kate Barasz and Michael I. Norton
Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others (experiment 1). These negative judgments emerge... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure; Transparency; Policy-making; Privacy; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Trust
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  • August 2018
  • Case

Digital Transformation at Brazilian Retailer Magazine Luiza

By: Thales S. Teixeira, Leandro A. Guissoni and Tania Modesto Veludo-de-Oliveira
By late 2017, Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza's CEO was convinced that the company could significantly grow sales and accomplish its aspirations of digital transformation. What was unclear in his mind was whether he should act as a tech company and grow as fast as... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Ecommerce; Retailing; Brazil; Bricks And Mortar; Pricing; Customer Lifetime Value; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retail Industry; Brazil
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

creatively to develop business solutions that mitigate climate change Explore climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts’ scalability, costs, and benefits to inform View Details
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

single-payer system. Few national politicians are working to uncover why the public exchanges aren’t working for either insurers or consumers. While it’s difficult, the question everyone should be working to answer is: How can the system produce an adequate level of... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health
  • Web

Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing International Trade and Investment Course Number 1166 Professor Meg Rithmire Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Course Overview The course approaches economic interdependence from the perspective of... View Details
  • March 1997
  • Article

Transactions Costs and Capital Structure Choice: Evidence from Financially Distressed Firms

By: S. C. Gilson
This study provides evidence that transactions costs discourage debt reductions by financially distressed firms when they restructure their debt out of court. As a result, these firms remain highly leveraged and one-in-three subsequently experience financial distress.... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Capital Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Information; Finance; Business Ventures
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  • 05 Jul 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications

Keywords: by Michael Luca, Patrick Rooney, and Jonathan Smith; Education
  • Web

Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and administrators — to improve the value of care they deliver. It also permits benchmarking across the group's multiple hospital sites to identify best practices that can be shared. The case concludes with a View Details
  • Article

Brand Choice, Purchase Incidence, and Segmentation: An Integrated Modeling Approach

By: Randolph E. Bucklin and Sunil Gupta
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Decision Choices and Conditions; Sales; Segmentation
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  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

would be well-placed to monitor the financial condition of a mega bank and set the compensation of its senior executives in order to attain its dual goals of maximizing long-term profits for its shareholders... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

HouseElizabeth Arenz, MBA 2022Belle House offers the cleanest skincare you’ve ever seen. Into reading labels? No chemistry degree needed. Belle House envisions a future in which consumers don’t have to compromise between their short-term goals, long-term health View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

time in class discussing how to structure deals and leverage resources you don't actually have - both key issues when we started Stylus," he says. "My goal," Bhide explains, "is to help students make smarter View Details
  • July 1992
  • Article

New Product Channel Choice: A Framework, a Method and an Application

By: V. K. Rangan, M. Menezes and E. P. Maier
Keywords: Product; Decision Choices and Conditions; Framework
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    Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News

    Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the... View Details
    • 19 Aug 2021
    • News

    A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

    percent of that mortgage." The result of that was that white people were able to buy homes now, and communities like Levittown, New York, were created in the suburbs. But on the condition from the federal... View Details
    • January 2005 (Revised October 2005)
    • Case

    Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner
    Describes Standard & Poor's sovereign credit ratings business. Provides background on the history of credit ratings agencies, the meaning of credit ratings, the expansion of the sovereign ratings business over recent decades, and the market for credit ratings. Also,... View Details
    Keywords: Sovereign Finance; History; Policy; Business and Government Relations; International Finance; Country; Globalized Economies and Regions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Debates; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 16 Aug 2024
    • In Practice

    Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

    electric school buses to jeopardize consumer support and make your innovations controversial again. The choice is stark. In a climate-denying administration, this may set back the industry for years, letting... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 29 Sep 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

    affords them greater control over service quality and customer experience, in return for which they accept the added costs of being employers. Hornet's nest The decision by some marketplaces-for-services to... View Details
    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services