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    Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good

    The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details

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    Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

    Enterprise Outlook's 2003 Investor's Choice Award (one of ten software companies nationwide most likely to succeed) and ComputerWorld's Innovative Technology Award (one of twenty-five annually). Prior to Endeca, Steve was part of the... View Details
    • March 2005 (Revised May 2009)
    • Case

    Columbia's Final Mission

    By: Michael Roberto, Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Laura Feldman and Erika Ferlins
    On February 1, 2003, the Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, and the seven astronauts onboard lost their lives. Explores Columbia's final mission from the perspective of six key managers and engineers associated with NASA's Space... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Aerospace Industry
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    Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

    (or permanently, if set in your account's login scripts .bashrc/.bash_profile ; but this is not recommended). This then allows two choices for file redirection and potential manual temporary file cleanup: One can continue to use the local... View Details
    • 19 Nov 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Search for Benchmarks: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom?

    Keywords: by Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma & Charles C.Y. Wang
    • 02 Dec 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance

    Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley & Kalina Manova
    • 26 Sep 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News

    Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Dong Lou & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services
    • 14 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity

    Keywords: by Jooa Julia Lee, Francesca Gino & Bradley R. Staats
    • 08 Jul 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

    Keywords: by Kristina McElheran
    • Research Summary

    Social Learning

    One major area of my research is social learning: the ways and extent to which people discover what they want and need from the behavior and opinions of others.  Social learning takes many forms.  Probably most obvious is word of mouth—the advice and... View Details

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    Bricks and Clicks: The Effect of Store Assortment on E-tail Format (with R. Lal and E. Ofek)

    An often neglected aspect in existing studies of the Internet selling process is the high volume of product returns. Such returns reflect a major logistic expenditure on behalf of companies that sell over the net. The problem is reduced when consumers shop in physical... View Details
    • 2023
    • Article

    Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation

    By: Jonas Meckling and Jesse Strecker
    Climate policy has entered a new era as public investment is increasingly moving to center stage, including recovery spending and long-term climate investment plans. While essential for decarbonization, public investment is not enough – the carrots of investment need... View Details
    Keywords: Government and Politics; Environmental Regulation; Climate Change; Policy; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 2021
    • Article

    Fair Influence Maximization: A Welfare Optimization Approach

    By: Aida Rahmattalabi, Shahin Jabbari, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Phebe Vayanos, Max Izenberg, Ryan Brown, Eric Rice and Milind Tambe
    Several behavioral, social, and public health interventions, such as suicide/HIV prevention or community preparedness against natural disasters, leverage social network information to maximize outreach. Algorithmic influence maximization techniques have been proposed... View Details
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    • July–August 2013
    • Article

    Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue

    By: Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson and Herman B. Leonard
    Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts estimated the probability of getting them out alive at less than 1%. Yet, after spending a record 69 days underground, all 33 were hoisted up to... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Learning; Mining; Mining Industry; Chile
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    From Single Deals to Negotiation Campaigns

    By: David A Lax and James K. Sebenius
    Negotiation scholars typically take the individual deal, or a few linked deals, as the unit of analysis. While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Framework; Business Subsidiaries; Agreements and Arrangements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Information Management; Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • 1998
    • Book

    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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    • 29 Sep 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

    When others think like us or look like us, we are likely able to predict their moves and perspectives. But when they don’t, we need to be open to learning about them. 2. Reserving judgment opens us up to curiosity In improv, you go with the flow. Maybe you’re not crazy... View Details
    Keywords: by Francesca Gino
    • 27 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 27

    simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a multidimensional problem into a binary View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Nov 2023
    • Blog Post

    The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

    of FrameBridge. You need to decide whether to expand into a market your business knows almost nothing about or stick with providing a service that you know will eventually become obsolete. This choice echoes the challenges tackled by John... View Details
    • 16 Jan 2018
    • Blog Post

    How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

    about your student budgetYou’ll likely be living on a modest graduate student budget and most students will need to make choices about how they spend their money. While the Cost of Attendance at HBS includes many budget items such as... View Details