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- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
What strategy do you use when making complex decisions? Do you burn the midnight oil to carefully weigh the pros and cons of each alternative? Or do you take your mind off the decision and follow the age-old wisdom of "sleeping on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
pilot an oil tanker.” But he asked to participate in the search for his successor, and requested the right to veto a candidate if he felt he or she wouldn’t be a good cultural fit. “Initially we allocated very few pages to the search... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Kahneman's diagnosis, but not his remedy Whether the decision is to be made by an individual, a team, or 'the bureaucracy', I would say that all would be well served by the discipline imposed by adherence to a rational process (which)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
even the appearance of impropriety if they are to recover America's trust.—Constance Bagley A number of states have gone even further than Delaware and passed "constituency statutes," which expressly give directors the right to... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions about manufacturing and marketing. After each round of play, reports are generated that include balance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
QUESTION: “How did you ensure the talks didn’t fail because of internal strife?” —Alexandra Baranowski (MBA 2025) “I had to handle that with a lot of cold blood and not engage the opposition in every argument. I had to maintain the course, explain why we were doing... View Details
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
opportunities for the right kind of experience than more normal situations? We know how to measure experience; but just how is judgment measured? How do we know that recent decisions represent good judgment?... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
Summing Up An overarching theme of an unusually large number of responses to the June question of "What can aspiring leaders be taught?" was that of context. That is, the suggestion that while it may be late to teach ethics and "distinguishing View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- December 2021
- Case
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Assessing Risk in Carlos Ghosn's International Escape
By: Eugene F. Soltes, Grace Liu and Muneeb Ahmed
In 2018, automotive tycoon Carlos Ghosn was arrested in Japan on financial misreporting charges, followed later by charges of improper payments and misappropriation of funds. Over a year later, still awaiting trial, Ghosn organized his escape from house arrest in Tokyo... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Law; Courts and Trials; Rights; Risk and Uncertainty; Auto Industry; Japan
Soltes, Eugene F., Grace Liu, and Muneeb Ahmed. "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Assessing Risk in Carlos Ghosn's International Escape." Harvard Business School Case 122-051, December 2021.
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
no statement of the decision reached by the businessman...and generally business cases admit of more than one solution...[they] include both relevant and irrelevant material, in order that the student may obtain practice in selecting the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
the right appears to be more of a square than the one on the left, which looks longer and skinnier. Why bother taking out a ruler to measure the dimensions, since the difference is obvious? If this is what you think, you're wrong. Your... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
playbook, but it has cultivated an additional source of revenue: the sale of conservation easements. Lyme Timber buys pieces of land targeted by conservation groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land, which pay the company to relinquish its... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
all other possibilities and have now escalated to me so I can make a decision. Knowing that decisions have consequences and not making the right decision can mean that our new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
and valuable experience to be right there." But being "right there" last summer meant being in a region rife with political and social unrest. It is widely believed that Liberian president Charles Taylor has been supporting Revolutionary... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
all, he’s someone we can all trust to always do the right thing.” However, romantic entanglements were part of Easterbrook’s story from the start. When the board appointed him CEO, they knew he had a relationship with a third-party... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
organization is costly to produce and disseminate throughout the enterprise, they maintain that an organization must decentralize its decision-making capacity. "The issue is not whether to centralize or decentralize, but rather which View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
MAYO: Since the 1970s, the MBA has become a necessary credential to pursue the inside track to corporate power. So much of what business schools teach is focused on making the right managerial decisions at a... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
is right and being able to put it into practice in organizations include: (1) the use of memory and custom as a substitute for thinking, (2) fear of making a mistake which prevents employees from acting on knowledge, (3) measurements,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
right to vote,” the post reads. “We believe in the power of democracy and that our communities need to do more to help citizens exercise their constitutional right to build a more free, equitable, and just... View Details