Decision-making - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

and good decision-making benefits from intelligence, thoughtful deliberation, and experience, but also, as i hope you agree, from sound values. A big part of leadership is deciding, and good decision-making... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

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Max Reichel

theory. They're actively engaged in challenging my assumptions, while enhancing my decision-making prowess under uncertainty. The cases are based on real-life business and ethical dilemmas that force me to formulate my opinions and defend... View Details

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Anastassia Fedyk

am trying to better understand how psychological biases affect decision-making in organizations and financial markets. I have been long interested in optimal incentive design for employees subject to self-control problems. For example,... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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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

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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting

students. Be honest about salary levels/grades, and timelines for interviews and decision making It may feel like you’re sharing a secret by talking honestly about salary, and you may worry about scaring away candidates if your interview and View Details

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2.3 Community Standards of Conduct | MBA

for one’s own well-being, including responsible decision-making regarding physical and mental health. Further, HBS expects every student to be familiar with the regulations governing membership in the Harvard community set forth in this... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management

and you have to meet budgetary numbers, you can forget about morals.” How do we educate students to avoid Hoffenberg’s path? Soltes has three suggestions. The first is to integrate ethical decision-making with core-discipline courses like... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

06 Oct 2016
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Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort

debated about the relative values of different managerial approaches, my peers and I began to realize how nuanced and subjective decision-making could be in the business world. During these debates, some of the most enlightening comments... View Details

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Katy Lankester

it armed me with the basic vocabulary of business and an understanding of the steps in certain decision-making processes. The four “P’s” of marketing may sound like a trite framework, until you’re trying to create a marketing plan from... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Fred Smith

When we make decisions, we have to consider a diverse student body and confront a wide variety of issues. It's a great laboratory for me to test my decision-making skills." During January break, Fred joined the China/Vietnam... View Details

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Networking

Network module contains 950,000 leaders and decision-makers across 1,600,000 private organizations. This module not available via WRDS. Select Advanced Search to get to the screening template. Select Sector and choose... View Details

Expanding Horizons

Geoffrey Jones’s course, Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism. The students, who had arrived at HBS with diverse industry experiences, often raised questions and posed creative solutions that I had not considered. Hearing their perspectives and strategies for... View Details

24 Apr 2012
First Look

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

01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises

how can a CEO avoid making decisions that favor short-term results, even if those choices lead to predictable surprises? What I would like to take out of corporate decision-making are situations where a special-interest group within the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

"Cases help to develop 'pattern recognition' skills that are very important in decision-making ...." Dave Schnedler added that cases help develop "critical thinking," teach that "digging hard pays off,"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

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Digital Marketing & AI Workshop - Course Catalog

investor stakeholders, and managing agencies and in-house teams. The course balances strategic decision-making with hands-on execution, ensuring students leave with both high-level frameworks and practical skills to apply in real-world... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Research Brief: The Power of Could

do—rather than what you should do—helped participants see existing options as less incompatible, generated a broader range of creative solutions, and led more directly to moral insight in decision-making with others. “What we were quite... View Details

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog

business situations, understand why things happen the way they do, and exercise better decision-making when they encounter similar circumstances in their jobs and careers. Course Content and Objectives: The course includes 13 class... View Details

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Naiyya Saggi

strong systems of support and learning for me. The Social Enterprise Fellowship supported me in my internship with the UNICEF Headquarters in New York over the summer. Organizing the Harvard India Conference helped me establish contact with View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Consulting

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Allie Corless

appetite. What are you most looking forward to in your career? The great thing about working for a startup is the autonomy and decision-making authority, which also comes with a high level of responsibility. In the short term, I am... View Details

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