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- 28 Jul 2009
- News
Independent minds make for better health-care decisions
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Changing the Game: Negotiation and Competitive Decision Making
High-stakes business negotiations challenge your wits, your confidence, and your capacity for clear reasoning under intense pressure. Changing the Game leverages the latest research to your advantage, helping you prepare for complex... View Details
- September 2001
- Article
What You Don't Know About Making Decisions
By: David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto
Keywords: Decision Making
Garvin, David A., and Michael A. Roberto. "What You Don't Know About Making Decisions." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 8 (September 2001): 108–116.
- May 16, 2011
- Blog Post
A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Making Complex Decisions
By: Maarten Bos and Amy Cuddy
Bos, Maarten, and Amy Cuddy. "A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Making Complex Decisions." Harvard Business Review Blogs (May 16, 2011). http://blogs.hbr.org/2011/05/a-counter-intuitive-approach-t/.
- 11 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements
Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell
- January–March 2020
- Article
Inaction and Decision Making in Moral Conflicts
By: Netta Barak-Corren and Max Bazerman
People regularly face conflicts in which obeying one moral requirement means transgressing another. Moral conflicts require difficult decisions: a person believes she should take both actions, but doing both is impossible. In this paper, we examine a common form of... View Details
Barak-Corren, Netta, and Max Bazerman. "Inaction and Decision Making in Moral Conflicts." Art. 100703. Special Issue on 21st Century Decision Making. Organizational Dynamics 49, no. 1 (January–March 2020).
- October 1997 (Revised May 1998)
- Case
Decision Making at the Top: The All-Star Sports Catalog Division
By: David A. Garvin and Michael Roberto
Describes a senior management team's strategic decision-making process. The division president faces three options for redesigning the process to address several key concerns. The president has extensive quantitative and qualitative data about the process to guide him... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Teams; Performance Improvement; Planning; Mathematical Methods; Strategy
Garvin, David A., and Michael Roberto. "Decision Making at the Top: The All-Star Sports Catalog Division." Harvard Business School Case 398-061, October 1997. (Revised May 1998.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight
By: Aticus Peterson and Andy Wu
We study how learning by experience across projects affects an entrepreneur's strategic foresight. In a quantitative study of 314 entrepreneurs across 722 crowdfunded projects supplemented with a program of qualitative interviews, we counterintuitively find that... View Details
Keywords: Experience; Interdependency; Strategic Foresight; Crowdfunding; Timeline; Delay; Forecasting; Entrepreneurship; Learning; Complexity; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Development; Planning
Peterson, Aticus, and Andy Wu. "Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-123, January 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
The Right Way to Make Data-Driven Decisions
- October 2013
- Case
Decision Making at the Top: The All-Star Sports eBusiness Division
By: David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto
Describes a senior management team's strategic decision-making process. The division president faces three options for redesigning the process to address several key concerns. The president has extensive quantitative and qualitative data about the process to guide him... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Teams; Performance Improvement; Planning; Mathematical Methods; Strategy
Garvin, David A., and Michael A. Roberto. "Decision Making at the Top: The All-Star Sports eBusiness Division." Harvard Business School Case 314-010, October 2013.
- September 8, 2015
- Article
Making Better Decisions in Your Family Business
By: Josh Baron, Rob Lachenauer and Sebastian Ehrensberger
Family businesses face complex decisions, from CEO succession to business strategies. A "four-room" model helps structure decision-making in these businesses: Owner Room (ownership goals and board election), Board Room (performance monitoring and CEO appointment),... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Decisions; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Succession; Talent and Talent Management
Baron, Josh, Rob Lachenauer, and Sebastian Ehrensberger. "Making Better Decisions in Your Family Business." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 8, 2015).
- June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
High Liner Foods, 2015
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Don’t Make Important Decisions Late in the Day
- December 1989
- Case
Managerial Decision Making and Ethical Values, Course Module
By: Kenneth E. Goodpaster and Thomas R. Piper
Goodpaster, Kenneth E., and Thomas R. Piper. "Managerial Decision Making and Ethical Values, Course Module." Harvard Business School Case 2-313, December 1989.
- May 2004 (Revised October 2007)
- Background Note
Best Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Describes investment decision-making processes, based on interviews with 56% of the top 38 venture capital firms in the country. Discusses some implications for the future growth of the industry. View Details
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Best Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-176, May 2004. (Revised October 2007.)
- Sep 26 2018
- Testimonial
Making Sales Team Management A Strategic Priority
- August 2023 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Morphic Therapeutic: Making the Initial Pipeline Decisions
By: Satish Tadikonda and Ananya Zutshi
- 2006
- Conference Presentation
Coordinating Centralized Information and Decentralized Decision Making
By: Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
chair of the Negotiation and Decision Making unit. Indeed, the field has grown so important that in 1994 HBS became the first major business school to require a full negotiation course for MBAs. In that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
- Supplement
LendingClub (B): Decision Trees & Random Forests
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
This case builds directly on the LendingClub (A) case. In this case students follow Emily Figel as she builds two tree-based models using historical LendingClub data to predict, with some probability, whether borrower will repay or default on his loan.
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Keywords: Data Science; Data Analytics; Decision Trees; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "LendingClub (B): Decision Trees & Random Forests." Harvard Business School Supplement 119-021, August 2018. (Revised September 2018.)