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- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
Cross Country team admitted to similar practices. This case follows the decision-making of Harvard administrators as they deal with the discovery of the scouting report. In addition to exploring leadership through crisis, the case... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that have particular relevance to behaviors impacting the environment. First, despite claiming that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
to make up relevant stories of their own,” she says. “This is not prescriptive. I’m not a child development expert. I’m deploying the case methodology to help parents engage with their child. The goal is to engage your child so he/she can become a thoughtful View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
expression of corporate purpose and guide for decision-making for most publicly owned firms in the United States (and the United Kingdom). I argue that narrowing the compatibility gap between capitalism and justice and reversing declining... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
need meaningful yearlong inclusion and for decision-makers to listen to our demands, at both COP28 and in other processes such as Nationally Determined Contribution consultations.” Angela Zhong, Harvard College “I was also lucky enough to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising the standards of View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
experimentally dissociable, little is known about ambiguity sensitivity in individuals who engage in chronic antisocial behavior. We used a financial decision-making task in a high-risk community-based sample to test for associations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were Black;... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
(co-benefits) model that Dr. Allen and his team have developed, which makes the inclusion of health benefits intentional – quantifying the health benefits enables the capture of “immediate and local benefits to influence decision-making... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
ecosystems will gain valuable insights into how to adapt strategies. These actionable insights will improve decision-making by providing a framework for adapting to local market context. Second, those who intend to pursue startups or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
core skills they need to become integral members of their company’s decision-making teams. It emphasizes decision making and the implications of decisions. While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
for every grade K–10, and recognizing that some students need a longer day or extended school year to meet those requirements; decentralizing decision-making and removing seniority from the union contract in the hiring of teachers;... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting appropriate consumer protection policies. We conduct a simple experiment in three sites in which we paid off... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
analysis," she advised. Another entrepreneur took a different tack and credited her own decision-making prowess to the power of yoga. Roxanne Quimby, who started Burt's Bees, Inc., a personal care products firm, in her Maine kitchen,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Applying to HBS in Round 3?
of Mexican immigrants, now US citizens and entrepreneurs, HBS was my dream so I could contribute to minority representation at the decision-making table. I had nothing to lose and every reason to try. The rest, as they say, is history. It... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
economies that are facing shrinking workforces due to aging demographics. But we must navigate the transition well.” Gross agrees: “As I discuss with students, these technologies are more likely to complement their skills as View Details
- 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