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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
battle-tested process for effective decision-making that generally starts with a six-page document. “You write your hypothesis, provide context and data to back it up, and you articulate a few different options with the pros and cons,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
people collaborate better on decision-making and create more discovery-driven learning?” As Hill and her colleagues researched these diverse leaders and sought to learn what they could from their leadership, they found themselves... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
CMO tasked with returning a key consumer brand to relevance. Fin Tales is also the rare book about leading business turnarounds not from the top, where most leaders control all the levers of change, but from the middle, where thoughtful navigation of internal View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Have Ideas, Will Travel
decision-makers in the region so they can validate their ideas and increase their impact.” The symposium featured presentations by five HBS faculty members, a panel discussion on microfinance, and a luncheon address by the president of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
presentation to upwards of 280 HBS alumni who gathered on the Harvard Medical School campus, is better regulatory science. That translates into faster decision-making and a better balance between safety and innovation with respect to... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
options that you're not choosing. You need to mourn them and you need to move away from them. And if you can do that and say, "I'm glad I was able to sort of do this, but I'm now going to move on with my life," that process of actually clearing those things out of your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A New Oath for Business Leaders
At the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Forum for Young Global Leaders (YGL) resolved to study the idea of developing an oath to guide decision-making when facing tough business choices. HBS professors Rakesh Khurana... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
Doubles Partner
heavily involved in her firm’s decision-making process well before she announced her retirement. In a December 2020 interview with the HBS Alumni Bulletin, Stillman describes the duo’s skill sets as “different and super complementary. I’m... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
decision-making process of its leadership. Comparing several months in early 1999 with a period in late 1999 through early 2000, she found less and less time being taken to make decisions even as the company's circumstances became more... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
processes used by many firms to develop a workable strategy often feel overly bureaucratic and behind the curve. There is no question that strategic decision-making has become more challenging and complex. In fact, many companies seem to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
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)
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
positions. “Those of us who are very passionate about achieving gender equality know that empowering women is only part of the solution. And true parity can only be reached if those decision-makers at the top also buy in and understand... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Trevor Fetter, MBA 1986
“I invest in HBS because I learned to make better decisions at HBS. The School helped me refine my ability to analyze business problems. As my career has evolved through different jobs in unrelated industries, the core skills in fact-based View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
decision-making capabilities. The book introduces a model that uses a firm's collective judgment so that the right decisions are made and the entire organization profits. Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding & Using... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
later that she fully recognized that the decision-making skills she learned as a young Marine officer were not all that different than those valued in a CEO. The stakes on the ground in Iraq were higher than in a boardroom, but in the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Advancing the cause of women’s leadership in business
world. Women are getting more management opportunities, says Lang. Still, significant progress needs to come in the boardroom and the C-Suite, where women continue to lag in key agenda-setting, decision-making roles. “Companies with more... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
Not surprisingly, the subjects who had a personal stake in how the cash was awarded gave themselves a larger chunk than the nonbenefiting subjects thought they merited. "When people stand to gain from a situation," says Fenwick, "their View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that are locked into early-stage View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
tell the story of how they launched SmartPak, a rapidly growing company in the horse- and dog-supplements business that landed smack in the middle of the melamine-pet food scare last spring. Seeking Silent Voices. Successful View Details