Decision Support - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

about why else this could happen. With little evidence to support a theory, it occurred to me that one additional issue that hasn’t shown up in the press might be that of sequencing; in a sense, putting the cart before the horse. When I... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while supporting rising living standards for... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

in the world of fashion, Girard quickly learned where she fit. “I found myself asking professors, ‘How do these design decisions impact margins?’” she laughed, “and that provided me clarity. I wanted to be in fashion, but not as a... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

By the end of his early career, Williams had won additional supporters within the company, including Barrett's boss and several white peers who, when they were promoted to management before Williams, vouched for him with their colleagues... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

20 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)

what inspires me. That and support from our community. This immediate and deep support has helped us say yes more and make the right decisions as the pandemic surges on. Those... View Details

29 Nov 2017
Blog Post

HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise

also a 16-year-old kid unprepared to handle the stress and pressure that accompanied that amount of attention, and the weight of my college decision nearly crushed me. As a first-generation college student, I had no idea what I wanted... View Details

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

government, and not-for-profits. To war against COVID To aid the fight against COVID-19, here are seven key frameworks and approaches with roots in military strategy that are taught in leading Agile and strategy programs. They can help your organization adapt quickly... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55258 Summer... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In particular, we argue that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

to support immoral enterprises. Hayes argued that an investor is in a better position to change a company's policies than an outsider, noting that his college investment committee used proxy materials to raise an issue about sexual... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2021
Blog Post

How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals

decision for me at my stage in my career was a job that would give me the experience and skills I needed to succeed long-term in a leadership role. Me with my HBS Health Care Club Conference teammates I joined Medtronic’s Corporate... View Details

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207019 CMM versus Agile: Methodology Wars in Software Development Harvard Business School Case 607-084 A CIO decides whether to adopt the "Capability Maturity Model" (CMM) within her IT... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

have expected an American to have to be going through. And part of it had to do with drugs. Part of it had to do with not having enough money. But even just the spending decisions that they made when they had a little bit of money—it just... View Details

16 Jul 2018
Blog Post

3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando

the workforce are women) they know that it’s not enough. Zalando wants to maximize diversity across all levels of the organization’s hierarchy and in all business functions. Supported by the highest levels of the organization, a diversity... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

27 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

Pierre-Jacques. Taking the Next Step with HBS As their careers at ICV grew alongside their work at Harlem Capital, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle both had decisions to make about where to go from here. For Pierre-Jacques, that next step was... View Details

26 Feb 2021
News

Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

campaign. To “put it all into action,” she says, the HBSLAA is assembling the Latinx Board Taskforce, aimed at connecting board-ready Latinx alumni and board decision makers to “move the needle on driving diversity in the boardroom.” Club... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52118/how-to-do-well-and-do-good/ Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine CEO... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

a staff meeting at which all the department chairs were present, one chief—who had remained silent—sent an e-mail to Levy complaining about a decision made during the meeting. The e-mail copied the other chiefs as well as the chairman of... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

remarkable global political events: Great Britain’s surprise decision to leave the European Union, one of the most contentious American elections in our nation’s history, and, just recently, the closely-watched presidential race in... View Details

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