Selection Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

first-year LEAD and any HBS Executive Education program where leadership is discussed? The case, first published in 1999, hinges on a decision that wasn’t even present when Hill started her research: Diagnosed with a high-risk pregnancy,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2005
News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

Photographs by Webb Chappell Now in its tenth year, the Bulletin’s annual student profiles have become something of a tradition. Faced each spring with a mountain of potential candidates, we puzzle our way through a dizzying array of experiences and achievements to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Simplification and Saving By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian Abstract—The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2019
News

The 19 Musts of 2019

of Mom Hacks (2019) MUST LISTEN Stay Free: The Story of the Clash “The decision to have Public Enemy’s Chuck D narrate was absolutely inspired. This series is a great lesson in what it means to innovate, and the mash-up of the birth of... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Your Company and Yourself By Rick Williams (PMD 33, 1977) Amplify Publishing Leaders create the future with the decisions they make. Impactful leaders believe they can create the future, and they change uncertainty into hope and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

statistics) is selectivity. For US News and World Report, for example, historically one of their criterion has been: how selective is the college? Do you take 20 percent of everybody who applies, do you take 50 percent of everybody who... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

employees. By 2012, sales had increased by nearly 50 percent, and VW’s brand ranking had climbed from No. 55 to No. 39. Based on consumer surveys, brand monitor Interbrand selected VW as the top environmental brand in 2012. While creating... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

July 2024
Case

Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding

By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn

This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details

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28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

the end, that’s what an effective government does: It provides services to citizens and gives them the basics to do better. Today’s system creates fewer and fewer of those opportunities to move up,” says Ballou-Aares, who was selected as... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

users' decisions about where and how to focus their attention: users who decide what to click based on listings' relevance became more likely to select paid listings, while users who are influenced by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

about baseball and race, he's explored questions such as how much money motivates ministers, and how much financial journalists affect the stock market. "I am interested in what motivates people," he says, "and what causes them to make the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

Financial Cryptography and Data Security (forthcoming) Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well hidden, and limited reputation systems reduce... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Human Decision Processes Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research has focused on understanding when... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

doubled to approximately $275 billion annually. But the Golden Age of Philanthropy, as some began to call it, risked spending much of that money unproductively. Of the nation’s more than 1.2 million nonprofits, most operated on shoestring budgets. Donors largely based... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

adaptability. In this work Christenson has drawn from several disciplines, including sociology, cybernetics, decision theory, and psychology. Christenson spent one year away from HBS in 1962 when he was asked to come to Washington, D.C.,... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

business models; an enhanced focus on organizational innovation and implementation; and increased field-based learning." The Diagnosis As source material for the conference, Herzlinger arranged for market research firm Scriplogix to interview View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

financial management and the usefulness of formal hedging of agricultural production risks was offered to randomly selected farmers in Gujarat, India. The authors evaluate the effect of the financial literacy training and three marketing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

Bob Vanourek (MBA 1966) (Motivational Press Inc.) Vanourek has selected poems, prose or speech passages, and curious verse, each example with insights into leadership. He follows these pearls with engaging commentary from his own... View Details

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

moral imperatives, we study the factors that influence when individuals find solutions that fall outside of the salient options presented. In particular, we study moral insight, or the discovery of solutions, other than selecting one of... View Details