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- 01 May 2013
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Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
over the world.” Lessons gained from the case study method, in particular, have stayed with her. “It’s a discipline that encourages you to step back and learn from many perspectives,” Thoman says, adding that her HBS experience has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
institutional environments alter financing decision-making around the world. Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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Books
practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
decision-making process of its leadership. Comparing several months in early 1999 with a period in late 1999 through early 2000, she found less and less time being taken to make decisions even as the... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaching. His coauthored research on golfer performance has aided the PGA’s development of a new metric to measure putting skills. Francesca Gino is an associate professor in the Negotiation, Organizations Markets Unit and teaches... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
specialized expertise to the process—which some worry might create subject-area bias in the decision-making process and affect the quality of research. Assistant Professor Danielle Li takes a mathematical... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Apr 2000
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Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
associated with the high-level administration of large, complex, and relatively stable businesses. In EM, the basic principles developed in the general management course will continue to be central, but the View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
puts students in the shoes of case protagonists, helping them develop the skills and judgment required to be an effective general manager. While case discussions remain core to the School’s learning model,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
with our students. That kind of interaction would make a deep and valuable impression. Hall: We need to show our students how incremental errors of judgment can lead down a slippery slope to a whole heap of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
factor it into their decisions and their daily lives, the better. This is going to be a very long, drawn-out campaign; the Afghan part is just the beginning of the beginning. To the extent that View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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A New Oath for Business Leaders
At the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Forum for Young Global Leaders (YGL) resolved to study the idea of developing an oath to guide decision-making when facing tough business choices. HBS professors Rakesh Khurana... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
options that you're not choosing. You need to mourn them and you need to move away from them. And if you can do that and say, "I'm glad I was able to sort of do this, but I'm... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
made at the top. “It’s a reasonable question to ask and will provide revealing insights into the partnership’s culture and division of decision-making authority.” A full... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Trevor Fetter, MBA 1986
“I invest in HBS because I learned to make better decisions at HBS. The School helped me refine my ability to analyze business problems. As my career has evolved through different jobs in unrelated industries, the core skills in fact-based View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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New Releases
Smart Choices by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School Press) Decision-making is a major part of life for every human being. Where should you live? Which house should... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
for every grade K–10, and recognizing that some students need a longer day or extended school year to meet those requirements; decentralizing decision-making and removing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
theories outlined in Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Seeing What’s Next offers a practical model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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In Brief
tell the story of how they launched SmartPak, a rapidly growing company in the horse- and dog-supplements business that landed smack in the middle of the melamine-pet food scare last spring. Seeking Silent Voices. Successful View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
competitors often lead to overcompensation and lull executives into a false sense of superiority. Pay-for-performance systems that ignore rigorously applied subjective judgments often promote gaming behavior... View Details