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- September–October 1998
- Article
The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
By: John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Raiffa
Keywords: Decision Making
Hammond, John S., Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa. "The Hidden Traps in Decision Making." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 5 (September–October 1998): 47–+.
- December 2001
- Article
The Study of 'Real' Decision Making
By: M. Bazerman
Keywords: Decision Making
Bazerman, M. "The Study of 'Real' Decision Making." Special Issue on Naturalistic Decision Making. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 14, no. 5 (December 2001).
- January 2014
- Other Article
The Answer is 9,142: Understanding the Influence of Disruption Risk on Inventory Decision Making
By: Mark Cotteleer, Maria Ibanez and Geri Gibbons
The question was how many units of inventory a manager should order when faced with a possible disruption in supply. The correct answer is not guesswork, but based on 150 years of theory and practice. We examine individual choices made in this critical situation—and... View Details
Cotteleer, Mark, Maria Ibanez, and Geri Gibbons. "The Answer is 9,142: Understanding the Influence of Disruption Risk on Inventory Decision Making." Deloitte Review 14 (January 2014).
- April 2024
- Article
Decision Authority and the Returns to Algorithms
By: Hyunjin Kim, Edward L. Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers and Michael Luca
We evaluate a pilot in an Inspections Department to explore the returns to a pair of algorithms that varied in their sophistication. We find that both algorithms provided substantial prediction gains, suggesting that even simple data may be helpful. However, these... View Details
Keywords: Algorithmic Aversion; Algorithmic Decision Making; Algorithms; Public Entrepreneurship; Govenment; Local Government; Crowdsourcing; Crowdsourcing Contests; Inspection; Principal-agent Theory; Government Administration; Decision Making; Public Administration Industry; United States
Kim, Hyunjin, Edward L. Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers, and Michael Luca. "Decision Authority and the Returns to Algorithms." Strategic Management Journal 45, no. 4 (April 2024): 619–648.
- 2023
- Chapter
Analyzing Human Decisions and Machine Predictions in Bail Decision Making
By: Jon Kleinberg, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan
BOOK ABSTRACT: Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality
Kleinberg, Jon, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Analyzing Human Decisions and Machine Predictions in Bail Decision Making." In The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. 3rd edition, edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi. Routledge, forthcoming.
- February 2014
- Article
Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess
We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Decision Making; Microeconomic Behavior; Education Systems; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Economics
Coffman, Katherine Baldiga. "Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess." Management Science 60, no. 2 (February 2014): 434–448.
- March 1992
- Article
Negotiator Cognition and Rationality: A Behavioral Decision Theory Perspective
By: M. A. Neale and M. H. Bazerman
Neale, M. A., and M. H. Bazerman. "Negotiator Cognition and Rationality: A Behavioral Decision Theory Perspective." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 51, no. 2 (March 1992): 157–175.
- 2012
- Chapter
Self-knowledge, Unconscious Thought, and Decision Making
Bos, Maarten W., and Ap Dijksterhuis. "Self-knowledge, Unconscious Thought, and Decision Making." In Handbook of Self-knowledge, edited by Simine Vazire and Timothy D. Wilson. Guilford Press, 2012.
- January 2015
- Article
Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making
By: Jooa Julia Lee and F. Gino
This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses influences people's decisions in moral dilemmas. We hypothesize that emotion regulation—mainly suppression and reappraisal—will encourage utilitarian choices in emotionally... View Details
Lee, Jooa Julia, and F. Gino. "Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 126 (January 2015): 49–64.
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Unfortunately, superior decision making is distressingly difficult to assess in real time. Successful outcomes—decisions of high quality, made in a timely manner and implemented effectively—can be evaluated... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 2012
- Article
A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance
By: Sendhil Mullainathan, Joshua Schwartzstein and William Congdon
Research in behavioral public finance has blossomed in recent years, producing diverse empirical and theoretical insights. This article develops a single framework with which to understand these advances. Rather than drawing out the consequences of specific... View Details
Mullainathan, Sendhil, Joshua Schwartzstein, and William Congdon. "A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance." Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012): 511–540.
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer
behavioral science, specifically, behavioral economics, tries to understand consumers as they actually behave and promote changes in their decision View Details
Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt
- August 2017
- Article
Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray
By: Eugene F. Soltes
Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar... View Details
Soltes, Eugene F. "Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray." Special Issue on Behavioral Ethics. Journal of Management Education 41, no. 4 (August 2017): 455–468.
- August 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Teaching Note
Executive Decision Making at General Motors (TN)
By: David A. Garvin
Teaching Note to (9-305-026). View Details
- June 2021
- Article
The Role of Beliefs in Driving Gender Discrimination
By: Katherine B. Coffman, Christine L. Exley and Muriel Niederle
While there is ample evidence of discrimination against women in the workplace, it can be difficult to understand what factors contribute to discriminatory behavior. We use an experiment to both document discrimination and unpack its sources. First, we show that, on... View Details
Keywords: Gender Discrimination; Behavioral Decision Making; Gender; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Economics; Behavior; Decision Making
Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle. "The Role of Beliefs in Driving Gender Discrimination." Management Science 67, no. 6 (June 2021).
- January–March 2020
- Article
Inaction and Decision Making in Moral Conflicts
By: Netta Barak-Corren and Max Bazerman
People regularly face conflicts in which obeying one moral requirement means transgressing another. Moral conflicts require difficult decisions: a person believes she should take both actions, but doing both is impossible. In this paper, we examine a common form of... View Details
Barak-Corren, Netta, and Max Bazerman. "Inaction and Decision Making in Moral Conflicts." Art. 100703. Special Issue on 21st Century Decision Making. Organizational Dynamics 49, no. 1 (January–March 2020).
- 2011
- Book
Business Intelligence: Making Decisions through Data Analytics
By: Jerzy Surma
Surma, Jerzy. Business Intelligence: Making Decisions through Data Analytics. New York: Business Expert Press, 2011.
- Research Summary
Adoption of Machine Learning Models in Real World Decision Making
The goal of this research is to assess the impact of deploying machine learning models in real world decision making in domains such as health care. View Details
- September 2001
- Article
What You Don't Know About Making Decisions
By: David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto
Keywords: Decision Making
Garvin, David A., and Michael A. Roberto. "What You Don't Know About Making Decisions." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 8 (September 2001): 108–116.
- May 16, 2011
- Blog Post
A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Making Complex Decisions
By: Maarten Bos and Amy Cuddy
Bos, Maarten, and Amy Cuddy. "A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Making Complex Decisions." Harvard Business Review Blogs (May 16, 2011). http://blogs.hbr.org/2011/05/a-counter-intuitive-approach-t/.