Judgment And Decision Making - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2018
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Cold Call Horror Stories

no, she’s prepared. We won’t cold call her’, or do you look furtively at your notes? So he’s looking on the other side of the class and I’m sure he’s making the body moves like he’s going to cold call... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched

on me. I really believe in this company.” But for the most part, we don’t invest if we can’t both get there. We don’t make decisions lightly. It’s an iterative process. We just invested in one company that I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

01 Jun 2003
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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

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

private companies, the USPS has to have even its best ideas reviewed by regulators and contested by competitors. But inevitably making tough choices about technology to create new services has to be... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

27 Apr 2022
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Rolling Back Degree Requirements Expands the Pipeline for Tech

01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap

performance. In Montgomery County, district leaders designed a process for analyzing data, monitoring progress, identifying best practices, and making and implementing View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing

steeped in decades of Marxism and anti-Western dogma. In 1990, the two men coauthored Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Research Online

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons explains how managers can identify holes in their planning processes View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Oct 2001
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Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success

Mustard Mills. The Plochman recipe for stone-ground mustard, for example, hasn't changed much in the last one hundred years, but the technology involved in making it demonstrates 21st-century expertise. "Things happen much more quickly,"... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2021
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Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

East and North Africa Research Center to explore both Abi Chaker’s tough decision and the larger challenges Lebanon faces. “In reading the case, you learn about the history of... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

model was needed that we could adapt continuously so the School would always be on the bleeding edge.” The Institute is not the first to recognize the dramatic impact of digitalization, data science, and design on the world, Lakhani says.... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

and an interest in health-care management. She currently teaches the required course General Management and the Foundations module Leadership, Values, and View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson... View Details

11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

of The Mission Continues? “I knew about The Mission Continues through my membership in the veterans group at the Kennedy School. A year after graduating from HBS, I was living in San Antonio and looking for a geographic change. I wanted... View Details

03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures

be known,” he says. That holds true whether it’s reminding us of journalism’s power or showcasing how grit, integrity, and difficult leadership decisions can play out on history’s stage. It’s all to the same... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

River.) In August 2001, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) announced a ban on federal funding for research on any human embryonic stem-cell lines created after that date. The decision reflected opposition to the use View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

unpredictable elements: Cuban politics, US politics, and the weather. The potential payoff? Making the first footprint in the sand. Watching a country take a new shape. Being part of a revolution. Keeping up... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Sep 2009
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Letters to the Editor

findings, which substantiated my insight about Soviet decision-making, were published in Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises (Harvard... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate

One is how are the bad patents getting issued in the first place? The situation is the result of the confluence of two things: the strengthening of the patents themselves, which has been a gradual change over the last 30 years, and the... View Details