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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
meet market measures of success, he said, sound judgment and principles were suspended by individuals and governance institutions alike. In seeking solutions to these problems,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
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Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
thing for our investors, our conservation partners, and our employees. One has to make tough judgment calls and strategic decisions and figure... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Have Ideas, Will Travel
decision-makers in the region so they can validate their ideas and increase their impact.” The symposium featured presentations by five HBS faculty members, a panel discussion on microfinance, View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Brothers were also at risk, which well, you know where this is going. The decision to let Lehman fail, we’re told by the decision-makers themselves, received only cursory debate. The judgment last year to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A New Oath for Business Leaders
At the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Forum for Young Global Leaders (YGL) resolved to study the idea of developing an oath to guide decision-making when facing tough business choices. HBS professors Rakesh Khurana... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
Smart Choices by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School Press) Decision-making is a major part of life for every human being. Where should you live? Which house should... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
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Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
tell the story of how they launched SmartPak, a rapidly growing company in the horse- and dog-supplements business that landed smack in the middle of the melamine-pet food scare last spring. Seeking Silent Voices. Successful View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Joe Badaracco
cautiously optimistic we’re heading in the right direction.” Badaracco’s latest book, Leading Quietly, explores his thesis that “the most effective leaders are rarely public heroes,” but instead are individuals with sound judgment View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
what separates a practical approach to business decision-making from a more theoretical approach that says, “There is a right answer, and you just have to find it.” Life isn’t like that in my experience.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
compare your name to existing and pending trademarks, based on a variety of characteristics, including phonetic similarity, similarity of goods, and status of existing trademark applications View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
Administration, made educating students “to use data for judgment, and judgment for data” one of the top three priorities guiding the MBA curriculum. “AI is not just displacing human workers—it is changing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
surveys used by Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News are subject to bias by relying so heavily on judgments from recent graduates, deans, and administrators. Students... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
and good decision-making benefits from intelligence, thoughtful deliberation, and experience, but also, as i hope you agree, from sound values. A big part of leadership is... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
presentation to upwards of 280 HBS alumni who gathered on the Harvard Medical School campus, is better regulatory science. That translates into faster decision-making and a better balance between safety... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
Rosenbaum: Women students feel a judgmental difference. When I started at HBS in 2006, I was a 24-year-old Jewish Latina who was also enrolled at Harvard Law School. In my brief professional experience, I had already been a successful... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
Doubles Partner
heavily involved in her firm’s decision-making process well before she announced her retirement. In a December 2020 interview with the HBS Alumni Bulletin, Stillman describes the duo’s skill sets as “different View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
was really hard to put a deal together. Despite that, all the creditors, the management team, the board, and 11 of the 12 unions either approved the deal or agreed not to oppose this deal. And it was one... View Details
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- 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