Publications

September 2016
Article

Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making

By: Max Bazerman and Ovul Sezer

In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the perpetrators were surrounded by people who could have recognized the misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and... View Details

Keywords: Ethics

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15 Mar 2013
News

Take Your 'Emotional Temperature' Before Making Decisions

2011
Book

Business Intelligence: Making Decisions through Data Analytics

By: Jerzy Surma

28 Jul 2009
News

Independent minds make for better health-care decisions

11 Aug 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements

Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell

05 Mar 2025
News

The Right Way to Make Data-Driven Decisions

September 8, 2015
Article

Making Better Decisions in Your Family Business

By: Josh Baron, Rob Lachenauer and Sebastian Ehrensberger

Family businesses face complex decisions, from CEO succession to business strategies. A "four-room" model helps structure decision-making in these businesses: Owner Room (ownership goals and board election), Board Room (performance monitoring and CEO appointment),... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Decisions; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Succession; Talent and Talent Management

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September 2001
Article

What You Don't Know About Making Decisions

By: David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto

Keywords: Decision Making

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May 16, 2011
Blog Post

A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Making Complex Decisions

By: Maarten Bos and Amy Cuddy

Keywords: Decision-making; Sleep; Decision Making

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24 Feb 2016
News

Don’t Make Important Decisions Late in the Day

January–March 2020
Article

Inaction and Decision Making in Moral Conflicts

By: Netta Barak-Corren and Max Bazerman

People regularly face conflicts in which obeying one moral requirement means transgressing another. Moral conflicts require difficult decisions: a person believes she should take both actions, but doing both is impossible. In this paper, we examine a common form of... View Details

Keywords: Moral Conflicts; Moral Sensibility; Decision Making; Behavior

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December 2023
Case

TikTok: The Algorithm Will See You Now

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

In a world where attention is a scarce commodity, this case explores the meteoric rise of TikTok—an app that transformed from a niche platform for teens into the most visited domain by 2021—surpassing even Google. Its algorithm was a sophisticated mechanism for... View Details

Keywords: Social Media; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Business and Government Relations; International Relations; Cybersecurity; Culture; Technology Industry; China; United States; India

August 2023 (Revised July 2025)
Case

Morphic Therapeutic: Making the Initial Pipeline Decisions

By: Satish Tadikonda and Ananya Zutshi

2006
Conference Presentation

Coordinating Centralized Information and Decentralized Decision Making

By: Ranjay Gulati

01 Feb 1997
News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

chair of the Negotiation and Decision Making unit. Indeed, the field has grown so important that in 1994 HBS became the first major business school to require a full negotiation course for MBAs. In that... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

December 1989
Case

Managerial Decision Making and Ethical Values, Course Module

By: Kenneth E. Goodpaster and Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs

May 2004 (Revised October 2007)
Background Note

Best Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Describes investment decision-making processes, based on interviews with 56% of the top 38 venture capital firms in the country. Discusses some implications for the future growth of the industry. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Venture Capital; Investment; Industry Growth