Decision Choices And Conditions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

exchange of letters in which the publisher defended Carson’s source material and its decision to issue the book, Velsicol backed away from its warnings. No lawsuits against Silent Spring were filed before or... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

23 Sep 2020
News

Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

The miracle, she says, is when the child starts making wise or mindful decisions on their own. After giving some talks about the book to local parent groups in Atlanta where she lives, Jones has started presenting webinars to HBS View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1996
News

New Releases

economy as a whole. The authors, who include HBS professor Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Rosenbloom, explore new ideas for linking research with commercial markets and identify the policy View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

Utah, she was accepted with a full scholarship to study molecular biology and dance. Suddenly, a pre-planned life became uncharted territory. From that one big decision to pursue an education in the United... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Apr 2002
News

Q&A - Mark Fields

linguistic, economic, social,and business-culture obstacles — daunting for a foreigner under the best of circumstances — while making the inevitably unpopular decisions required to achieve a turnaround. Fast-forward a couple of years, to... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2007
News

Ali Allawi

would have been formed, and then you let Iraqis, whether for good or ill, manage this process. For the first four months after the overthrow of the regime, there was very little resistance either from disbanded army units or from the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

01 Feb 2001
News

The Doctor Is In

The spotless, brightly lit corridors of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital are filled with the ebb and flow of the human condition —people from around the globe and around... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

30 Apr 2021
News

Revealing the Rules

Courtesy Gorick Ng Courtesy Gorick Ng A first-generation college student and professional, Gorick Ng became a self-taught master of trial and error from an early age. When he was 14, his mother—a single... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Insight: Yenball

and found a number of broadly applicable factors that allowed clubs to amplify their investments. SIDENOTE: Tanaka's former team is the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, established in 2004 by the Rakuten Group—a company founded by Hiroshi... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Masahiro Tanaka; Hideki Matsui; Isao Okada; business of sports; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2012
News

50 Years & Counting

found that in joint evaluations, people are much more deliberative in their thinking. If you give people a choice between two or more individuals, then they tend to use the performance-based evidence available to them View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

05 Jun 2017
News

Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

new skills that boards should be developing for issues such as digital or cyber security,” she says. “And now I have a clear and personal action plan for moving forward, including what career choices I... View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are generated that include balance... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

unhappy? He then challenges his students to consider what they have learned at HBS that will help guide their own choices about career and family. In 2010, at the request of one of his students, Christensen... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2013
News

Your Own Medicine

fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

the formation of funds to the investment of the funds in operating companies to the liquidation of those investments. A wide range of topics is considered, including the structure of venture partnerships, how venture capitalists oversee firms, how they are compensated,... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Dec 2017
News

Removing Barriers

professionally and personally as I did.” With a strong belief that “funding shouldn’t be a factor” in the decision to attend HBS, Anita points out that it can be prohibitively expensive, especially for... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

“Mutiny is a rare and extreme example, but my findings also apply to situations where it becomes necessary to manage conflict or create buy-in for organizational change,” she adds. Merryman cites HBS professor Joshua Margolis as just one... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in... View Details