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- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
extremely important in this setting. Many scans are submitted by hospitals in emergency situations, so quicker analyses may lead to faster decision-making and better patient outcomes. The outsourcing firms, of course, also benefit by... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
at all than those shoppers who sampled only 6 flavors; considering too many options made it too hard to choose one.) The Underthinker The problem is that time-crunched managers often swing too far to the other end of the decision-making... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making within drug discovery and (2) institute numerical metrics—jointly affecting all R&D scientists—for the progression of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
that prioritize shareholder value maximization and short-term financial gains, largely at the expense of employee, climate, and societal welfare, have contributed to this crisis of power concentration. Power sharing entails giving workers a seat and a vote in their... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
Pro-self? Furthermore, Santana borrowed a concept from strategic games and socially interdependent decision-making that divides people based on their "social value orientation" (SVO). When faced with a decision on how to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
value, to promise so much more good than harm. Such is the sobering message about the high stakes of technology decision-making that rings in the ears of tomorrow’s managers as they leave the classroom. Rocket Science and Socrates Taking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
provides practical advice on creating successful decision-making governance to reduce errors and correctly assigning responsibilities and incentives; dealing thoughtfully and effectively with governance challenges; building the right... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
emotion regulation and utilitarian decision making. November 2014 Journal of Marketing Research Cost Conscious? The Neural and Behavioral Impact of Price Primacy on Decision-Making By: Karmarkar, Uma R., Baba Shiv, and Brian Knutson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
as a clean and green country may have been the major constraint. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51580 Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948–1974) By: Casadesus-Masanell,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
with ideas, solutions, information, and energy that feed into their decision-making processes. Over the years, I’ve witnessed my own students convince senior executives to improve labor practices in the supply chain and workplace that end... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
for making CBA more effective, rather than eliminating CBA as a decision-making tool. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-001.pdf Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry (revised) Authors:Bo... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
beginnings and the incentives they foster. As he put it, “the hunger to rise is most strong in those who fight through the odds. That warm meal may lull someone better off to pause and rest a while ” Asrarqureshi attributed the success of super stretch goals to the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
based in part on the likelihood of obtaining patents and in part on the projected cash flows of the business under various scenarios. This case examines issues of intellectual property in science, international differences in patent law, and the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
e-commerce initiatives, the payoffs of e-commerce investments must be calculated and integrated into management decision-making systems. Developing Appropriate Metrics To closely monitor the cause and effect relationships evidenced in the... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
policy and has put out a formal request for information to help guide that decision-making process, to which Trichakis, Bertsimas, and Farias are contributing. Their key idea is to propose a new way of thinking about the problem. So far,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
systematically analyzing a third and fourth class of factors that often prove critical in cross-border dealmaking The decision-making and governance processes that are the targets of influence efforts. While negotiations take place with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
producing analysis and interpretation, while operating in key decision-making fora. In the first bank ("Saxon Bank"), the risk function was successful in achieving such influence. The risk experts established a tight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
expanding into high-wage economies in Europe and North America; (2) the company was expanding its presence in China—a country where front-line employees were not used to exercising decision-making authority; and (3) newcomers in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Acumen's potential new projects in Kenya and associated decision-making factors, including political risk. The (B) case considers critical measurement problems for the organization at large. What should its performance tracking system... View Details