Decision-making - Publications - Faculty & Research

Mar 22 2018
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Revitalize Your Skills and Your Career

Mar 07 2018
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Discovering What Great Leaders Have in Common

Feb 02 2017
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Developing the Confidence to Take Risks

Aug 04 2015
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Taking Time to Learn, Reflect, and Grow

Aug 05 2014
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Making an Investment in Yourself

Jul 03 2014
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Appreciating the Science of Business

Sep 02 2014
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Developing the Tools to Embrace Change

Oct 07 2020
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Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making - Course Catalog

decisions inconsistent with expectations of rationality. Clarifying objectives. How should leaders determine whether the decisions others are making are optimal? We address the questions leaders should consider before deciding to intervene in others’ View Details

02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

people: 1) those who "will never agree with the CEO and are always in the minority," 2) those who help "clean up the decision-making process," and 3) "true 'yes men' ... [who] get the job done." Cheryl Price... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online

dynamic teaming is and its importance Build skills to create psychological safety and foster inclusion Recognize and address unconscious, implicit, and affinity bias Improve team decision-making and communication through tested tools... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Gordon Donaldson Remembered

mentor, researcher, and administrator. In 1995, the MBA Class of 1963 established a professorship in his honor. “Gordon was an intellectual leader at the School for many years,” said HBS professor Jay Lorsch. “He had a deep understanding of and interest in corporate... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life

stakeholders may or may not find ‘good enough’ in the short term but that pay off for everyone eventually. Decision-making at deep-purpose companies becomes an exercise in ‘practical idealism,’ a discipline of honest and often messy... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Tim Butler

Dr. Timothy Butler is a Senior Fellow on the HBS faculty and is the faculty advisor to HBS Career and Professional Development. He is an expert in the area of business career decision-making and the author of many books, psychological... View Details

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Executives: biographies

affiliates/alumni. In addition, Boardex Private Equity Network module contains 950,000 leaders and decision-makers across 1,600,000 private organizations. This module is not available via WRDS Select Advanced Search to get... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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A Measured Approach

sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

04 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

research team asked decision-makers to choose between two lightbulbs. The bulbs were equally matched on most dimensions, including price, wattage, and lifespan—all except for one feature: energy efficiency. One bulb was extremely... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

existence of passive leadership constitutes a substantial barrier to candid dialogue and debate within organizations. Leaders can and should take concrete steps to build conflict into their decision-making processes. For instance, they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1998
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Smart Choices by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School Press) Decision-making is a major part of life for every human being. Where should you live? Which house should you buy? Is it time to change... View Details

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