Decision Authority - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

look at how companies could more effectively leverage structured, randomized experiments to inform decision-making. His goal: Enable C-suite leaders to avoid the blind spots and blunders that can occur when making decisions based on data... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Aug 2002
News

For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

MBA alumni, with the balance divided evenly among AMP, OPM, and PMD graduates. Participants got acquainted Sunday at a reception and dinner, and classroom discussions began Monday morning with Associate Professor Michael Watkins, author... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

15 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

road ahead. Specifically, the authors address the entrepreneur before, during, and after the decision to create a new venture. Entrepreneurs need to realize that they are assuming a managerial role—both in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-070.pdf Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior Authors:Daniel Houser, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan Abstract Substantial research with adult... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1998
News

Playing to Win

I think CEOs should not stay too long at any company." Louis-Dreyfus believes that successful global enterprises must be decentralized. While Adidas's corporate headquarters maintains authority over the company's mission, vision, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2007
News

Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit

four years after the current president leaves office will be among the most consequential we’re going to live through. The decisions we make, or don’t make, will be of enormous importance to American history for the course of the 21st... View Details

Keywords: Government

04 May 2020
Blog Post

Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

done.” Effective communication must be accompanied with efficiencies in structure. “We have to operate more like a private company in which different departments have their own authority to act without running every View Details

27 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 27

PublicationsThe Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System Authors include:David S. Scharfstein Publication:Princeton University Press, N.J.: 2010 Abstract In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists—representing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

conduct an analysis. What’s missing are real-life, practical stories, tying analysis directly to business value. That is the objective of this book. By tying impact to tools and techniques, through real-life stories, the authors hope to... View Details

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

Choosing the right software platform is a critical task for developers. It can be a business life-or-death decision picking between Android or iPhone, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform, Xbox or PlayStation. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Important Life Decisions by Jaja Jackson (MBA 1999) and Jennifer Grimes (Jennifer Grimes) The authors demonstrate that it is really how we make important decisions that will... View Details

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development work focusing on innovative consumer-marketing strategies, she is the View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

silence? Michel Anteby: Vocal silence allows organizations to instill rather than impose morals. Indeed, the absence of direct guidance from higher authorities does not equate with the absence of any guidance. In vocal silence, an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

01 Sep 2006
News

East to West

Japan’s commercial code allowing companies to choose between a more traditional governance system and the U.S.-inspired committee system. Believing that Sumida’s future was limited if it followed the status quo, Yawata presses ahead with his View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

that some of the hardest leadership decisions are the ones that have moral or ethical stakes. For example, while on the board of a nonprofit, I was approached by an employee—a whistleblower—who accused the program director of manipulating... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

solution to this dilemma? I believe we need to restructure large organizations by giving much more responsibility and authority to first-line workers and paying them accordingly—with appropriate performance incentives. We need to trust... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

these dollars to a particular policy, and even though they want to do everything, they have to make tough choices,” Cavallo says. In the end, Cavallo hopes, “The insights obtained with these tracker-type datasets are going to be useful to make better policy View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

Geen, and HBS Professor Max H. Bazerman. "This project integrates my prior work on using joint decision-making to create more ethical decisions with Iris's long-standing expertise in developing strategies to promote gender... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care—including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger—believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

Profile

Eric Chavez

to a new product engineer. “I loved the responsibility and challenge,” he says, “but it felt repetitive: same problems on different products.” Seeking a new challenge, Eric moved into marketing so that, “I could be closer to the products and the View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech

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