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- January 2006
- Article
The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
By: Howard Raiffa, John S. Hammond and Ralph L. Keeney
Keywords: Decision Making
Raiffa, Howard, John S. Hammond, and Ralph L. Keeney. "The Hidden Traps in Decision Making." HBR Classic. Harvard Business Review 84, no. 1 (January 2006).
- September–October 1998
- Article
The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
By: John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Raiffa
Keywords: Decision Making
Hammond, John S., Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa. "The Hidden Traps in Decision Making." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 5 (September–October 1998): 47–+.
- December 2001
- Article
The Study of 'Real' Decision Making
By: M. Bazerman
Keywords: Decision Making
Bazerman, M. "The Study of 'Real' Decision Making." Special Issue on Naturalistic Decision Making. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 14, no. 5 (December 2001).
- 01 Sep 1998
- News
The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
- August 24, 2010
- Article
Western Retailers Are Making Strategic Inroads
By: John A. Quelch and Maria Ibanez Gabilondo
- 2012
- Chapter
Self-knowledge, Unconscious Thought, and Decision Making
Bos, Maarten W., and Ap Dijksterhuis. "Self-knowledge, Unconscious Thought, and Decision Making." In Handbook of Self-knowledge, edited by Simine Vazire and Timothy D. Wilson. Guilford Press, 2012.
- September 1999 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Strategic Deal Making at Millennium Pharmaceuticals
A small start-up in 1993, Millennium Pharmaceuticals was a name-brand biotechnology company by the end of 1998, with a market capitalization of $1.4 billion. The Cambridge-based company's growth strategy had relied heavily on building alliances for early-stage drug... View Details
Keywords: Alliances; Negotiation Deal; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Cambridge
Watkins, Michael D., and Sarah Matthews. "Strategic Deal Making at Millennium Pharmaceuticals." Harvard Business School Case 800-032, September 1999. (Revised September 2005.)
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
When a Spinoff Makes Strategic Sense
- 2023
- Chapter
Analyzing Human Decisions and Machine Predictions in Bail Decision Making
By: Jon Kleinberg, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan
BOOK ABSTRACT: Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality
Kleinberg, Jon, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Analyzing Human Decisions and Machine Predictions in Bail Decision Making." In The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. 3rd edition, edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi. Routledge, forthcoming.
- September–October 1988
- Article
Measure Costs Right: Make the Right Decisions
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Measure Costs Right: Make the Right Decisions." Harvard Business Review 66, no. 5 (September–October 1988): 96–103.
- January 2015
- Article
Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making
By: Jooa Julia Lee and F. Gino
This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses influences people's decisions in moral dilemmas. We hypothesize that emotion regulation—mainly suppression and reappraisal—will encourage utilitarian choices in emotionally... View Details
Lee, Jooa Julia, and F. Gino. "Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 126 (January 2015): 49–64.
- August 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Teaching Note
Executive Decision Making at General Motors (TN)
By: David A. Garvin
Teaching Note to (9-305-026). View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Unfortunately, superior decision making is distressingly difficult to assess in real time. Successful outcomes—decisions of high quality, made in a timely manner and implemented effectively—can be evaluated... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- April 2024
- Article
Decision Authority and the Returns to Algorithms
By: Hyunjin Kim, Edward L. Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers and Michael Luca
We evaluate a pilot in an Inspections Department to explore the returns to a pair of algorithms that varied in their sophistication. We find that both algorithms provided substantial prediction gains, suggesting that even simple data may be helpful. However, these... View Details
Keywords: Algorithmic Aversion; Algorithmic Decision Making; Algorithms; Public Entrepreneurship; Govenment; Local Government; Crowdsourcing; Crowdsourcing Contests; Inspection; Principal-agent Theory; Government Administration; Decision Making; Public Administration Industry; United States
Kim, Hyunjin, Edward L. Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers, and Michael Luca. "Decision Authority and the Returns to Algorithms." Strategic Management Journal 45, no. 4 (April 2024): 619–648.
- Research Summary
Adoption of Machine Learning Models in Real World Decision Making
The goal of this research is to assess the impact of deploying machine learning models in real world decision making in domains such as health care. View Details
- Teaching Interest
Changing the Game: Negotiation and Competitive Decision Making
High-stakes business negotiations challenge your wits, your confidence, and your capacity for clear reasoning under intense pressure. Changing the Game leverages the latest research to your advantage, helping you prepare for complex... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making
- April 2023
- Case
Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed
By: Michael Parzen, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng and Jessie Li
This is a case about a fictional New York beverage company called Fizzy Fusion. The business is facing supply chain and inventory management challenges with its new product, SparklingSip. Despite seeking help from a data science consulting firm, the machine learning... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Production; Risk and Uncertainty; Analytics and Data Science; Food and Beverage Industry
Parzen, Michael, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng, and Jessie Li. "Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed." Harvard Business School Case 623-071, April 2023.
- 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
Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer. "Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 136 (September 2016): 95–105.
- 15 Mar 2013
- News