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- Working Paper
Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice
By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Travis Welch
We study the role of executive functional background in explaining management discretion in financial reporting. Taking goodwill impairment as our reporting setting, we focus on top executives (CEOs and CFOs) whose employment history includes experience in investment... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Goodwill Accounting; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Managerial Roles; Agency Theory
Brochet, Francois, and Kyle Travis Welch. "Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-088, February 2011. (Revised November 2011.)
- June 2016
- Article
Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation
By: David Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade results in greater expected profit than a constant emissions price under an... View Details
Keywords: Technology Management; Management; Technology; Service Operations; Environmental Sustainability
Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove. "Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 6 (June 2016): 1006–1025. (Runner up, Wickham Skinner Award for the best paper published in Production and Operations Management during 2016.)
- October 2009
- Supplement
ADR Choices Video (Alternative Dispute Resolution Vignettes)
By: James K. Sebenius and Michael A. Wheeler
Keywords: Media
Sebenius, James K., and Michael A. Wheeler. "ADR Choices Video (Alternative Dispute Resolution Vignettes)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 910-701, October 2009.
- October 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Background Note
How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett
What is the response by advertisers as media consumption moves to the digital medium? Provides an overview of online advertising in mid-2006 and discusses the impact of an increasingly fractured media landscape and its accompanying expanding advertising options. View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; News; Media; Emerging Markets; Internet and the Web; Perspective; Disruption; Journalism and News Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., and Nancy Bartlett. "How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising." Harvard Business School Background Note 707-458, October 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
- 17 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation
- 2001
- Book
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
By: Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
Keywords: Judgments
Lawrence, Paul R., and Nitin Nohria. Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001.
- March 2015
- Case
Tough Choices at the Gomez Lobster Cooperative
By: Rebecca Henderson and Amram Migdal
This case is designed to be used with HBS Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century, HBS No. 315-074. View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance
Henderson, Rebecca, and Amram Migdal. "Tough Choices at the Gomez Lobster Cooperative." Harvard Business School Case 315-105, March 2015.
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Texas to Lithuania's West Virginia) and in economic might (second only to Russia in the region) has tried to tread—apparently with ambivalence—a middle ground between Russia and the West. As Abdelal points out, the choices of these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- December 7, 2011
- Article
Choice Helps High-End Products, Hurts Low-End Products
By: Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu
Bertini, Marco, and Luc Wathieu. "Choice Helps High-End Products, Hurts Low-End Products." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 7, 2011).
- January 2014 (Revised November 2014)
- Case
Legislative Choices for U.S. Corporate Tax Reform
By: Robert C. Pozen and Eric Lonstein
This case asks students to wear the hat of a policymaker to explore the politically charged issues around corporate tax reform in the U.S. View Details
Pozen, Robert C., and Eric Lonstein. "Legislative Choices for U.S. Corporate Tax Reform." Harvard Business School Case 314-090, January 2014. (Revised November 2014.)
- December 2001 (Revised February 2006)
- Background Note
An Options-led Approach to Making Strategic Choices
By: Jan W. Rivkin
Summarizes some of the pitfalls of conventional strategic planning processes and proposes an alternative approach to making strategic choices. View Details
Rivkin, Jan W. "An Options-led Approach to Making Strategic Choices." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-433, December 2001. (Revised February 2006.)
- September 2012
- Article
Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention
By: Douglas E. Levy, Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough and Anne N. Thorndike
Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority and low-income individuals.
Purpose: To test whether a two-phase point-of-purchase intervention improved food choices across racial, socioeconomic (job... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Advantage; Cost
Levy, Douglas E., Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough, and Anne N. Thorndike. "Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 43, no. 1 (September 2012): 240–248.
- December 2017
- Case
J.C. Penney: Tough Choices for Allen Questrom
By: Susanna Gallani, Gregory Sabin and Katherine Cui
Gallani, Susanna, Gregory Sabin, and Katherine Cui. "J.C. Penney: Tough Choices for Allen Questrom." Harvard Business School Case 118-041, December 2017.
- 01 Nov 2007
- Conference Presentation
Decision Amnesia: Motivated Forgetting of Difficult Choices
By: Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton
- August 1990
- Supplement
Taiwan 1986: Choices for the Future, Supplement
By: George C. Lodge
Lodge, George C. "Taiwan 1986: Choices for the Future, Supplement." Harvard Business School Supplement 391-055, August 1990.
- Article
The Influence of Standards on Judgment and Choices
By: A. E. Tenbrunsel, K. A. Wade-Benzoni, D. M. Messick and M. H. Bazerman
Tenbrunsel, A. E., K. A. Wade-Benzoni, D. M. Messick, and M. H. Bazerman. "The Influence of Standards on Judgment and Choices." Academy of Management Journal 43, no. 5 (October 2000): 854–866.
- June 2010
- Article
A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice
By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro liquidity providers, absorbing the large supply shocks associated with changes in the maturity structure of government debt. We document that... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; Investment Return; Government and Politics
Greenwood, Robin, Samuel G. Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein. "A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice." Journal of Finance 65, no. 3 (June 2010): 993–1028. (Supplementary results in Internet Appendix.)
- 2016
- Book
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price.... View Details
Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan. Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice. New York: Harper Business, 2016.
- July 2019
- Article
I Know Why You Voted for Trump: (Over)inferring Motives Based on Choice
By: Kate Barasz, Tami Kim and Ioannis Evangelidis
People often speculate about why others make the choices they do. This paper investigates how such inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen... View Details
Keywords: Self-other Difference; Social Perception; Inference-making; Preferences; Consumer Behavior; Prediction; Prediction Error; Decision Choices and Conditions; Perception; Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction
Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Ioannis Evangelidis. "I Know Why You Voted for Trump: (Over)inferring Motives Based on Choice." Special Issue on The Cognitive Science of Political Thought. Cognition 188 (July 2019): 85–97.
- April 1977
- Background Note
Choice of Debt Securities: Maturity and Call Provisions
By: Jay O. Light
Keywords: Financial Instruments
Light, Jay O. "Choice of Debt Securities: Maturity and Call Provisions." Harvard Business School Background Note 277-162, April 1977.