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  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

competitor had recently launched a product exclusively tailored to this demographic, securing substantial funding and gaining a significant head start. Convinced that this team possessed the right credentials to address the problem, I... View Details
  • January 2004 (Revised January 2005)
  • Case

Delta Air Lines (A): The Low-Cost Carrier Threat

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Laurent Therivel
The top management of Delta Air Lines must decide how to respond to the threat posed by low-cost carriers such as Southwest and JetBlue. Among the options considered is the launch of a low-cost subsidiary by Delta itself. Prior efforts to launch a low-cost subsidiary,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Cost; Decision Choices and Conditions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2023
  • Case

Stay or Go? Sarah Reynolds at Kensington Partners

By: David G. Fubini, Amr Seifeldin and Patrick Sanguineti
Sarah Reynolds, a Partner at the global Kensington Partners strategy consulting firm, has headed the firm's Telecommunications Group for a few years. Thanks to her stellar track record with clients, she has brought the group, and herself, a range of accolades and... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consulting Firms; Client Service; Career Management; Success; Time Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career
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  • 07 Aug 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

that we don't allow our decisions to get sidetracked (or sidetrack them ourselves). In their book Decisive, the Heath brothers cite four major reasons—all linked to common human traits—why we make poor View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

almost impossible to give instructions specific enough to eliminate all misunderstanding or cover every contingency. They find circumstances have changed, invalidating your directions and forcing them to improvise. They dislike being... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Social Choice Functions/Voting Rules, Multi-agent systems, Fairness and Privacy in AI, Digital Governance, Media View Details
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

transparent communication. Embracing a program that is Unrelenting and iterative. Setting Concentrated and focused steps to serve as a guiding set of goals. Driving Action by accepting View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

information, we hypothesized that complex decisions can best be made by engaging in periods of both conscious and unconscious thought. In both studies we found that the sequential integration of conscious... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

choices. Sometimes, even financially savvy HBS graduates overlook important opportunities to reduce risks during these life events or they make poor choices that are hard to unwind.  Other financial View Details
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

The joint degree program with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) proved to be the right choice for Janina. “It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

works best shifts with the times. Our research shows that while such tools and techniques are helpful and even necessary in streamlining execution, for instance, or developing strategy, there is no single,... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
  • 18 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

coordinate on for mediums of exchange, and a lot of the applications are technological in nature and novel (or at least unproven). And so, there’s a lot of View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology
  • 30 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

believe that surgery is the proper course of action, but her perception is biased: She has an incentive and makes money off the decision to operate. Another surgeon might just as easily come to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

and concludes with a call to the reader to do whatever he or she can to speed the adoption of integrated reporting. A 2-phase Labeling and Choice Architecture Intervention to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2011
  • Article

Stock Price Fragility

By: Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar
We investigate the relationship between ownership structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. We define an asset to be fragile if it is susceptible to non-fundamental trading shocks. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated ownership or because its... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Price; Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Assets; System Shocks; Financial Liquidity; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Volatility; Relationships; United States
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  • March 2021 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine
On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that... View Details
Keywords: September 11; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Decisions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth Management; Digital Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Air Transportation Industry; Tourism Industry; San Francisco
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  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112067-PDF-ENG Location Choice for New Ventures: Choices within Cities William R. Kerr and Alexis BrownellHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne