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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units. Learning is concentrated in business units with "loose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
Experiments by Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman In The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data Driven World, Michael Luca and Max Bazerman explore the value of experiments, and the ways in which they can improve organizational... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
Agenda Setting Authors: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao Abstract We examine a multi-issue dynamic decision-making process that involves endogenous commitment. Our primary focus is on actions that impact delay, an extreme form of lack of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
concept of choice architecture, which is a piece of the behavioral puzzle. The idea is that you can help people to make better decisions by understanding systematic biases in judgment and decision-making and changing the environment in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
less.” LEADING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY More Stories in This Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
hypotheses. And, again, there are other benefits. This stage of an ICP often leads to faster decision-making and pivots in a venture where founders and others have strong entrenched opinions about why things have or have not worked.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
others. Some contributors highlight how expedited flows of information allow business professionals to develop new knowledge practices. They analyze dynamics ranging from the decision-making processes of the Federal Reserve Board to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
difficult feedback. Finally, leaders must empower . Once they have done the work of enthusing and enabling, they must create opportunities for people around them to thrive by pushing decision-making down through every level of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
think even the graduates who enter an industry at precisely the wrong time end up suffering too badly: resilience and decision-making on the fly are two traits we try to inculcate in students before they graduate. Describe your version of... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
highly communicable tools and (b) develop a personal involvement in the deployment and interpretation of those tools in important decision-making forums. Based on experts' ability to combine and balance these two processes, we distinguish... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms plays an important role in firms' decision-making processes.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Allen partner to create Microsoft 1976 Cray Research, Inc. introduces the Cray-1 supercomputer 1978 Mandatory retirement is prohibited except for high-powered decision-making positions that also provide large pensions 1978 Bankruptcy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
companies, requiring the same critical, honest thinking about leadership development. Improving the cross-fertilization between business and education would help. It'd be great to have a kind of CEO-in-residence be part of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
figure it out, someone who shouldn’t, will,” Peterson warns. This is the kind of in-the-trenches managerial decision-making that a new HBS Executive Education program for health-care administrators aims to help. Launched last fall,... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
beginning of the decision-making period for you - the chance to be in charge of your own life.” There were five of us from my class at Stanford that came to the Program. Three of us shared a room, and the other two were in a different... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
lines. Study 4 shows that the transaction utility of maximizing profits required greater compensation when resources were distributed across, in contrast to within, social categories. We discuss the ethical implications of these View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
always have to attract other resource providers—co-founders and non-founding hires on the human resources side, investors on the financial resources side—to the venture. To attract them, the founder has to give up things of value, most prominently equity stakes and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
day I took over. I told [the host] Miss Jean to sit down, that I would run the show for her.” Case method prep: “The exercise of being a decision-maker in a pretend environment 15 times a week teed me up to do it in a real environment.”... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
decision making. The 2008 KPMG survey found that "understanding key stakeholder expectations" was the most important reason cited for stakeholder engagement by 59 percent of the respondents. External stakeholders can provide useful input to the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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