Decision Choice And Uncertainty - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

envisioned “virtual market” machine could become a reality but would still require one missing ingredient: a soul. The “soul” is our human intuition, scientific expertise, awareness of customer preferences, and industry knowledge—all... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

structure and liquidity policies—for tax or agency reasons—appears to be a key driver of their decision to simultaneously raise and pay out capital. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Winner of the First Annual OBHR Distinguished Scholar Award from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management in 2017. Amy C. Edmondson : Winner of the 2017 So! WHAT Award for the most outstanding article from five years earlier for “CEO Relational Leadership... View Details

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

percent discount, it is not a matter of if but when the category economics will shift. “Can you be an office supply store if you do not sell paper?” With technology making both pricing and assortment choices... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

business history conferences around the world, the touchstone of the profession is Alfred Chandler. What Max Weber and Emile Durkheim are to sociology, Chandler is to business history. He has decisively... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

have a number of formal leadership roles. The CEO and board chairperson lead the business and usually the shareholder group. Family council leaders, parents, and grandparents... View Details

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

partnering with BIT and applying behavioral insights to solve real world policy and managerial problems. “One way to help people make better decisions is to change the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

their current situation and how it might evolve,” Cespedes writes in the book’s introduction. If not, he says, they will make decisions based on bad assumptions and fall victim... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

encourage people to examine their own lives to determine how they can come closer to maximizing the good they do in the world. “I hope that [people] make better decisions and make wiser trade-offs in life,”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Business in Society and Strategy track. Introduction to Global Business ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Global Business $1,850 Next 4-week session starts... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

restrict their career choices upon graduation. This is particularly true for younger students, women, those from outside the United States, and students whose early career paths have not enabled them to... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

connected to a VC Quiz yourself on the key steps of the financing process Practice interpreting the provisions on a term sheet 5-6 hrs Module 4 Scaling Post Product-Market Fit Articulate how the competitive context can influence early startup View Details

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

engineers were capable of calibrating the recommendation algorithm to do this. Decisions were based on the knowledge that “outrage equals attention” and that “clickbait” (misleading headlines for content of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

Now Key Concepts Identify a business opportunity Evaluate an idea and assess the market Explore the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship Leverage experiments to validate concepts View Details

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

transcended the boundaries of her industry in terms of her social impact” by using – and in doing so risking – her status as an actress in order to fight for change. Working Knowledge A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur... View Details

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

This episode of Climate Rising features a conversation between Professor and host Mike Toffel and Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Commons, an app designed to help... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Yuan Zou Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management) Robert... View Details

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