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  • March 2009
  • Article

Trade-offs in Staying Close: Corporate Decision Making and Geographic Dispersion

By: Augustin Landier, Vinay Nair and Julie Wulf
We document the role of geographic dispersion on corporate decision-making. Our findings include: (i) geographically dispersed firms are less employee friendly; (ii) dismissals of divisional employees are less common in divisions located closer to corporate... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Geographic Location; Employees; Resignation and Termination; Retention
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Landier, Augustin, Vinay Nair, and Julie Wulf. "Trade-offs in Staying Close: Corporate Decision Making and Geographic Dispersion." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 3 (March 2009): 1119–1148.
  • October 2024
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Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011).

By: Timo O. Vuori and Michael Tushman
We studied Nokia’s decision to adopt the Windows platform in 2011 to induce new theory on the emotional dynamics of incumbent firms’ strategic decision making at platform transitions. We find that platform companies’ entry into an established industry activates a... View Details
Keywords: Emotions; Technology Adoption; Corporate Strategy; Transition
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Vuori, Timo O., and Michael Tushman. "Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011)." Strategic Management Journal 45, no. 10 (October 2024): 2018–2062.
  • 1998
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Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions

By: John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Raiffa
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making; Information
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Hammond, John S., Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa. Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998, Finnish ed. (Paperback: Broadway Books, 2002; Translations: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.)
  • 10 May 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making

Keywords: by Pablo Casas-Arce, F. Asís Martínez-Jerez & V.G. Narayanan; Banking
  • 30 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

predict that they will act ethically at the bargaining table.   2. Participating in the negotiation: During this action phase when negotiators are at the table, making View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2023 (Revised December 2023)
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Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Tom Quinn
As autonomy became a more significant part of modern life – most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas – ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Technological Innovation; Auto Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; North and Central America; Oceania; South America
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Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Tom Quinn. "Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines." Harvard Business School Case 324-007, August 2023. (Revised December 2023.)
  • August 1993 (Revised December 1997)
  • Background Note

Decision Analysis

Describes decision analysis, a systemic approach for analyzing decision problems. A running example illustrates problem structuring (decision trees), probability assessment and endpoint evaluation, folding back the tree as a method of analysis, and sensitivity... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Decision Making
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Wu, George. "Decision Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 894-004, August 1993. (Revised December 1997.)

    Decision Leadership

    DECISION LEADERSHIP is a passionate argument that leaders are, above all, decision architects. They pursue truth over power. When they do, their decisions are more ethical, accounting for broad constituencies and diverse perspectives. Their approach to any task is... View Details

    • December 2004 (Revised March 2006)
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    Decision Trees

    By: Robin Greenwood and Lucy White
    This case introduces decision analysis. Using a simple example, it illustrates the use of probability trees and decision trees as tools for solving business problems. View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making
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    Greenwood, Robin, and Lucy White. "Decision Trees." Harvard Business School Background Note 205-060, December 2004. (Revised March 2006.)
    • October 1997 (Revised May 1998)
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    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
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    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.)
    • 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
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    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.
    • 30 Oct 2017
    • News

    Research: The Rise of Partisan Media Changed How Companies Make Decisions

    • June 2020
    • Article

    The Isolated Choice Effect and Its Implications for Gender Diversity in Organizations

    By: Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai and Katherine L. Milkman
    We highlight a feature of personnel selection decisions that can influence the gender diversity of groups and teams. Specifically, we show that people are less likely to choose candidates whose gender would increase group diversity when making personnel selections in... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making; Organizational Studies; Decision Analysis; Economics; Decision Making; Behavior; Analysis; Organizations; Diversity; Gender
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    Chang, Edward H., Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, and Katherine L. Milkman. "The Isolated Choice Effect and Its Implications for Gender Diversity in Organizations." Management Science 66, no. 6 (June 2020): 2752–2761.
    • 2011
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    The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making

    By: Pablo Casas-Arce, Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez and V.G. Narayanan
    Keywords: Decision Making; Employees; Measurement and Metrics
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    Casas-Arce, Pablo, Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, and V.G. Narayanan. "The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making." January 2011.
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    Managerial Decision Analysis

    By: David E. Bell
    David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. are concluding a multiyear project aimed at producing more field-oriented case material for the Managerial Economics course, specifically, materials on decision, data, and risk analysis. A series of case- and textbooks (with... View Details
    • November 2022 (Revised February 2024)
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    Managing Customer Retention at Teleko

    By: Eva Ascarza
    This exercise aims to teach students about 1) Targeting Policies; and 2) Algorithmic decision making, and 3) Retention management. View Details
    Keywords: Algorithmic Decision Making; Marketing Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships
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    Ascarza, Eva. "Managing Customer Retention at Teleko." Harvard Business School Exercise 523-005, November 2022. (Revised February 2024.)
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    Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories

    right time? Many find it challenging to make time for education but, once they attend, they discover that for significant career development this time is important to reenergize and gain a broader perspective. "It was a difficult View Details
    • 29 Aug 2016
    • News

    Make better decisions by using stress to your advantage

    • 20 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

    practices of their clients, who have the power to fire them if they do notice. Q: The book is full of examples of people making decisions that they thought were ethical but... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2011 (Revised December 2022)
    • Background Note

    Ethical Analysis: Moral Disengagement

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Celia Moore
    Moral disengagement is a process that enables people to engage in negative behaviors, from small misdeeds to great atrocities, without believing that they are causing harm or doing wrong. When Conrad Black, the fallen Canadian mogul convicted of multiple counts of... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Social Psychology; Values and Beliefs
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    Sucher, Sandra J., and Celia Moore. "Ethical Analysis: Moral Disengagement." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-043, October 2011. (Revised December 2022.)
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