Judgment And Decision-making - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

in this organization in whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with organizational objectives. I find that employees selected through such channels are more likely to use View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

just get rid of that CEO and go find another one? I think that depends upon the judgment of the directors and their understanding of why a particular strategy is not... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

they can work together. "In a truly multicultural corporate environment, people strive to strike a balance between their own cultural core and being open to other value systems, communication styles, View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with organizational objectives. I find that employees selected through such channels are more likely to use decision-making... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

decision-making and even to the future and viability of capitalism. One debate concerned the primacy of profit as a goal. Deaver Brown led this argument by saying, "Profit... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

determination of compensation and, if so, how? Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making Our natural tendency to maintain silence and not rock the boat, a flaw at once personal View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

of these went out of business; a few became valuable; and three of them were later reacquired by Lucent, just two or three years after the Lucent business had chosen not to use the technology internally. How did Lucent businesses miss the... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

advertisers, and were heavily focused on interactive advertising options. The tendency for the established organization to assert control over the decision-making processes of the new venture kept these new... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

of late nineteenth century economist Max Weber; it’s called bureaucracy.) At the HBX Live event, Christensen explained why business practitioners should care about theory in the first place. “We teach our students to be data-driven, fact-based, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

for YouTube creators and advertisers. I really, really loved that job but I eventually hit a place where I wanted to be more involved in some of the higher level strategic decision-making (i.e. the kind that... View Details

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

infringing on technology patents—and win many of them In the past few years, NPEs have sued Apple, Samsung, eHarmony, Martha Stewart Living, and hundreds of other companies, sometimes winning judgments for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

06 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort

debated about the relative values of different managerial approaches, my peers and I began to realize how nuanced and subjective decision-making could be in the business world.... View Details

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

and debt markets. “These findings throw some doubt on the policy that has been pursued pretty much unanimously by decision-makers in Washington, D.C. to increase competition among raters.” Credit rating... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

Summing Up How will sustainability be achieved? To sum up responses to this month's column, the question is not whether global sustainability will be achieved but how. One school of thought could perhaps be characterized as enlightened self-interest, a realization on... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

August 1981
Case

West Point: The Cheating Incident (C)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

An outline of the Secretary of the Army's decision in the matter of the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Ethics; Judgments; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry

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21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

basic ways: Decision calculus: Knowledgeable people use their judgment in a systematic way to predict how consumers will respond to actions. Experiments: The company trials different marketing actions, either in the field or in a lab, on... View Details