Decision Choice And Uncertainty - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2011
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How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

February 2024 (Revised January 2025)
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AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup

By: Frank Nagle, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein and Susan Pinckney

The case describes the history of AGENTS.inc. Despite being a small startup, with only four employees, that had never had a funding round, the company boasted an impressive client portfolio including multiple Fortune 500 companies. While AGENTS.inc had been an early... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

efficacious than current therapies using enhanced bacteriophage that suppress antibiotic resistance, to degrade biofilms, and to induce bacterial killing across a broad spectrum. Vox Insurance Michael Newton Jon Altman Business Track... View Details

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

Concepts Design, direct, and shape organizational processes to your advantage Influence the context and environment in which decisions get made Implement strategies, plans,... View Details

17 Apr 2022
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How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

Harvard Business School visiting professor J. S. Nelson in her new book Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, which will be released on April 21. Nelson, a Villanova University law and business faculty member, co-wrote the book... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

29 Jan 2013
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aggressively and scale its business. They also needed to make business choices about next steps. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813023-PDF-ENG The World Bank in 2012: Choosing a Leader Iyer,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

and your team need to determine the legal format of your company, the organizational chart, and the distribution of equity. Your choices will have lasting consequences;... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

potential projects Examine how capital markets work and how they affect your business Develop a financial intuition that will give you the confidence to make effective decisions in your career View Details

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

Corrupted, which was taught to all incoming MBAs on their second day on campus in the fall. The goal was to get them to think about their own values and the obligations they have to shape the culture of an organization. As much as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

your and your peers’ communication techniques 6-8 hrs Module 4 Leader as Architect: Designing to Deliver Value Understand the critical design choices to align the people, systems View Details

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

during, and after the course. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different... View Details

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

the negative information paralyze customers? While knowing a product’s trade-offs clarified decisions for many Commonwealth Bank customers, diligently detailing every trade-off could overwhelm people, driving them to abandon the View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Feb 2013
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Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte &... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

May 2022
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Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger

Thomas de Dreux-Brézé, the Head of Strategy and Project Management at Rawbank Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was perplexed as he reviewed annual adoption rates for the bank’s launch of Illico Cash 2.0. As the bank’s mobile money app, Illico Cash... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during,... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

time. If you hadn't pursued a career in management, what might you have done instead? I probably would have been an economics professor. I faced this decision during my days as a student at MIT and chose... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

of Strategy Execution Understand the various tensions managers face as they execute strategy and implement a framework for managing those tensions effectively. Highlights Making Tough Choices Push to... View Details

13 Apr 2021
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

raises. Review the outcomes of promotion and compensation decisions by race, gender, and other identity characteristics. Retention. Track attrition View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Apr 2023
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Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

landed on green methanol, a very different choice from ammonia that some competitors are planning to use. Given the massive investment Maersk is making in green methanol, it was fascinating to see how the people behind that View Details

12 Nov 2018
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Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

opportunity to lead and make decisions that have a profound impact on people and organizations. I also came to see that a myriad of opportunities for that exist outside of the... View Details

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