Decision Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of challenges with implementing innovative new services. Economic View Details

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

embracing diversity as an asset. The immediate priorities—partisan gerrymandering, voter participation, and campaign finances—took shape out of Leadership Now’s own data analysis and build on research from across Harvard, such as HBS... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

considered a reason for sorrow or joy, market dynamics around whole-body donations operate in the United States. It remains crucial to understand how and why these dynamics develop. Scholars, particularly economic sociologists engaging in the sociological View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

integration across multiple offices, ancillary businesses, early adoption of financial reporting software, and consensus-based decision making. The firm was proud of its corporate culture and sought to maintain it as it grew, bringing in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

compensation and $130,000 USD. Award amounts are determined based on total funds available, a thorough review of the application, and analysis of the applicant’s projected monthly income. The maximum potential award amount an individual... View Details

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

decades, we find that the firm internalized the broader social discourse through iterated cycles of analysis and action, punctuated by evolving beliefs about gender and work. Outside experts and shifting social understandings played... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits. We also demonstrate that this effect is due to changes in the psychology of decision making, rather than voters' willingness to compromise and support a bill they... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

here. Morrell: Does your insight into how venture capitalists think help you in those discussions at all? Polli: That's a really good question. We did an analysis of venture capitalists versus entrepreneurs and the similarities and... View Details

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general managers but not as entrepreneurs. His... View Details