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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
with our students. That kind of interaction would make a deep and valuable impression. Hall: We need to show our students how incremental errors of judgment can lead down a slippery slope to a whole heap of trouble. In addition to having... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
puts students in the shoes of case protagonists, helping them develop the skills and judgment required to be an effective general manager. While case discussions remain core to the School’s learning model, HBS is continually exploring... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
the best position to make difficult judgments about your business. It shows how to turn these judgments into coherent analysis. The basic building block is the value that is created when the buyer and seller... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
and our faculty have been making their own wise judgments in that regard. My view is that the terrorist attacks underscore the importance of international understanding and coalition building. If there was a danger of the United States... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
against an attractive but relatively unknown candidate. The alternative of crafting a distinct, positive image takes longer and becomes more difficult as the day of judgment approaches. Policy differences grow fuzzier as both candidates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
you might say—about the mechanical effects of an economic policy. We are not very good at thinking about the broader value judgments underneath those decisions. What part does the minimum wage debate play in larger policy discussion about... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
In the second-year elective The Moral Leader, students read and discuss a wide selection of literary sources, confronting complex moral challenges and developing the analytical skills and judgment that will be required of them as business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
farm system, good scouting, shrewd free agent signings, and human judgment are as critical to a team’s success as fat contract offers. “ ‘Money ball’ is in vogue right now,” he adds, “and being here in Silicon Valley, of course we use... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
competitors often lead to overcompensation and lull executives into a false sense of superiority. Pay-for-performance systems that ignore rigorously applied subjective judgments often promote gaming behavior and otherwise provide... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
not have an already well-developed moral compass. While we should not have to point out to students what is “right” and what is “wrong,” we can guide them through the gray areas of decision-making. HBS puts these concerns front and center with the ethics module and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
surveys used by Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News are subject to bias by relying so heavily on judgments from recent graduates, deans, and administrators. Students understand the value of graduating from a top-ranked institution and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Brothers were also at risk, which well, you know where this is going. The decision to let Lehman fail, we’re told by the decision-makers themselves, received only cursory debate. The judgment last year to invest in banks, rather than buy... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
later in Washington, especially during the Clinton impeachment hearings. "We would hear things at Time that in our editorial judgment did not belong in the magazine's pages," she says, " but then they would jump from Matt Drudge to Jay... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
incentives and compensation systems, is investigating his theory that effective measurement of performance must use subjective judgment and qualitative assessments in combination with objective measures. Professor Carliss Y. Baldwin, with... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
will be a safer brand of football than mine was"). "Most important, the CheckLight is an objective measure that takes the judgment call out of the hands of the athlete, trainer, or coach." Kacyvenski took part in the class action suit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
business judgment rule, directors must have “knowingly and completely failed to undertake their responsibilities” or had “an actual intent to do harm” — a standard that has let thousands of failed boards off the hook over the years. While... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
overcome, and when a door closes another one often opens. Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chairman, Walt Disney Studios Bottoming out in Brazil Five of the six businesses I’ve helped build over 32 years since HBS have been successful, with one selling for $10 billion. One... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Harvard’s commitment to the quality of teaching.” HBS Dean John McArthur observed, “Chris has been at the forefront in the search for better ways for faculty to develop insight and judgment in their students and, not incidentally, in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
million shares raising $5.47 billion. “In addition to the financial analysis there’s a lot of judgment involved in deciding where to price an offering. You may have an oversubscribed deal, but how far should you push it? It’s not a simple... View Details