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  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

Performance enables future managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company's decision-making teams. This new program from established authors Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms plays an important role in firms' decision-making processes. This paper explores how strategic interaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

in this organization in whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with organizational objectives. I find that employees selected through such channels are more likely to use View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51502 forthcoming Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners By: Wu, Andy Abstract—We study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans

companies, requiring the same critical, honest thinking about leadership development. Improving the cross-fertilization between business and education would help. It'd be great to have a kind of CEO-in-residence be part of the View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

accounting information that helps improve their revenue positions, nonprofit hospitals expend resources on accounting information that facilitates decision-making related to operating efficiency and cost containment. Can Nanotechnology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

surrounding management of creative ensembles. The topics discussed include: the nature and attainment of mastery (as opposed to technical competence); master and apprentice relationships; the details of collaborative work and workspace;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

organizational mechanisms can help: guardrails that protect the weaker of the two goals, dynamic decision-making that treats high-level goals as sacrosanct but tactical decisions as provisional, and leaders dedicated to “both/and”... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26

and (b) develop a personal involvement in the deployment and interpretation of those tools in important decision-making forums. Based on experts' ability to combine and balance these two processes, we distinguish analytically among four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

health clinics, schools, or technical advisors." Werker explained more about the study and its implications for global society in an e-mail Q&A. Martha Lagace: Why did you and Ashwin Kaja decide to look closer at the World Bank?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

Challenge Indeed, the Bank's stated mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investments in people. To those ends, it provides loans, technical assistance, and policy guidance for its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

just steaming around in circles." Even as Liz Claiborne circled, AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, the world's largest airline, was in the process of laying off several hundred managers, technical specialists, and clerical... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Was CSIRO prepared to let short-term thinking in light metals firms drive its agenda? The case examines the technical decision-making process. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/613029-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2022
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Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

(co-benefits) model that Dr. Allen and his team have developed, which makes the inclusion of health benefits intentional – quantifying the health benefits enables the capture of “immediate and local benefits to influence decision-making... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

reduce them. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-012.pdf Thinking about Technology: Applying a Cognitive Lens to Technical Change Authors:Sarah Kaplan and Mary Tripsas Abstract We apply a cognitive lens to understanding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

on," says Harvard Business School marketing professor Gerald Zaltman. A more strategic approach to data mining can provide the foundation for that decision-making architecture. Below, advice on how to use information about the... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

triggered by fault lines and coalitions. This review sets the stage for describing novel pathways through which identities and interests, when considered together, can affect team processes and outcomes. Design/approach-We use an extended example of a hypothetical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

project, if completed successfully, would mark another step in TCS's progression from a provider of low-cost technical resources to their goal of becoming an end-to-end technology-enabled services provider. However, the project was not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

effective CSR strategy. Third, they have to see to it that their firm's CSR strategy and decision-making are integrated into the company's overall strategy. The Governance of New Firms: A Functional Perspective Author:Josh Lerner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

easily show to their superiors to justify those decisions. The lower frequency of experimentation in their decision-making leaves employees in tightly monitored environments with few opportunities to learn. The researchers question... View Details
Keywords: by Staff