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- 2016
- Working Paper
Experimental Evidence on Policies Aimed at Closing the Gender Gap in Willingness to Guess on Multiple-Choice Tests
Research has shown that women skip more questions than men on multiple-choice tests with penalties for wrong answers. We propose and test five policy changes aimed at eliminating this source of gender bias in test scores. Our data show that simply removing the penalty... View Details
- September 2018
- Case
Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID (Abridged)
By: Elie Ofek
In mid-2010 the Sealed Air Corporation has to decide on next steps for its novel video tracking technology (called VTID) after unsuccessful attempts to market it in three different industry settings. The company must determine whether its most recent target market, the... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Commercialization; Service Industry
Ofek, Elie. "Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 519-030, September 2018.
- July 1998 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan West
Display Technologies, Inc. (DTI) is a new joint venture between Toshiba and IBM Japan that is manufacturing the most advanced form of flat panel displays. With success in achieving significant production volumes, DTI has been asked to double its output as quickly as... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Style; Production; Outcome or Result; Performance Capacity; Strategy; Hardware; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
Bowen, H. Kent, and Jonathan West. "Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 699-006, July 1998. (Revised January 2009.)
- October 1988
- Case
Agrico, Inc.: A Software Dilemma
An information systems vice president has one hour to make an ethical decision: should a software program, left inadvertently on the company's computer, be copied and stored? Copying the program would protect clients' assets, but it seems to violate the vendor... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Contracts; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Information Technology Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Agrico, Inc.: A Software Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 189-085, October 1988.
- December 2009
- Article
Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match
By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Secondary Education; Marketplace Matching; Performance Efficiency; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Balance and Stability
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match." American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009). (AER links to access the Appendix and Downloadable Data Set.)
- September 1983 (Revised December 1988)
- Case
Cleveland Twist Drill (A)
Deals with the problems of implementing strategy in a declining industry and the negotiation of strategy with external constituencies, particularly labor unions. Traces Jim Bartlett's first nine months as president and asks for a plan of action. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Style; Negotiation Tactics; Labor and Management Relations; Corporate Strategy
Hamermesh, Richard G. "Cleveland Twist Drill (A)." Harvard Business School Case 384-083, September 1983. (Revised December 1988.)
- September 1985
- Background Note
Finding a Job with a Small Company
Describes a process of self-evaluation for working in small companies, discusses small company issues, focuses on some basic search techniques, and ends with a little how-to section. The goal is to facilitate the process of securing a job in a small company and to show... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Recruitment; Work-Life Balance; Interests
Stevenson, Howard H. "Finding a Job with a Small Company." Harvard Business School Background Note 386-076, September 1985.
- February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global, but each pertains to different offices and each deal has different strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Strength and Weakness; Negotiation Deal; Personal Development and Career
Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum." Harvard Business School Case 808-125, February 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
University endowment’s investment choices and of venture-capital-backed IPO run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2020
- Case
PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India
By: John J-H Kim and Malini Sen
Pratham is a non-governmental organization, focusing on high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the Indian education system. Co-founder Madhav Chavan is interested in using technology for education but differed in the way it is used in... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Information Technology; Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; Education Industry; India; Asia
Kim, John J-H, and Malini Sen. "PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India." Harvard Business School Case 321-022, October 2020.
- December 1993 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Manville Corporation Fiber Glass Group (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant
Manville Corp.'s senior managers must decide how to respond to a new scientific study suggesting that fiberglass, the source of 75% of the company's profits, may be another asbestos and must act under conditions of great uncertainty. In particular, when should a... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Health Disorders; Risk Management; Marketing Communications; Product; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Safety; Consumer Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry
Paine, Lynn S., and Sarah Gant. "Manville Corporation Fiber Glass Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-117, December 1993. (Revised November 2009.)
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments, edited by R. M. Kramer, A. E. Tenbrunsel, and M. H. Bazerman. Psychology Press, in press Abstract It is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Emily (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Emily (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-014 Emily, a private equity analyst, reads disturbing, sexually focused emails written about her by work colleagues and acquaintances after they all attended a work-related social event. Emily debates what she should... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Gender
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Emily (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-014, November 2007.
- August 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID
By: Elie Ofek
In mid 2010 the Sealed Air Corporation has to decide on next steps for its novel video tracking technology (called VTID) after unsuccessful attempts to market it in three different industry settings. The company must determine whether its most recent target market, the... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Commercialization; Service Industry
Ofek, Elie. "Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID." Harvard Business School Case 512-029, August 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Market Research Meets the “People Factor”
overall response rate was a respectable 44 percent. Each step led Zaltman and Deshpandé closer to several factors that they've determined can have a decisive effect on the use of market research. These... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- December 2013
- Supplement
Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)
This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
Sebenius, James K. "Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-028, December 2013.
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
the search for best practices. The strategy part is very much more difficult, but it creates the need for choice with the associated uncertainty and anxiety. Strategy requires... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- October 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Supplement
Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (B): Welcoming Gillette
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
A.G. Lafley and P&G leaders decided to approach the Gillette integration differently from previous mergers. Using P&G's purpose, values, and principles (PVP) it treated the acquisition as a merger that sought to take the "best of both" from each company. In the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Integration
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Matthew Bird. "Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (B): Welcoming Gillette." Harvard Business School Supplement 309-031, October 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- August 1998
- Case
HIMSCORP, Inc.
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Himscorp is an industry consolidation of records storage companies providing management and retrieval services of active medical records to healthcare institutions. Kent Dauten, a former general partner at Madison Dearborn Partners with 15 years of venture capital and... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Initial Public Offering; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consolidation; Information Industry
Sahlman, William A., Michael J. Roberts, and Laurence E. Katz. "HIMSCORP, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 899-021, August 1998.
- March 2018 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Gene Lee Navigates the Darden Takeover
By: Joshua D. Margolis, H. Lawrence Culp, James Barnett and Aldo Sesia
Following a full takeover of Darden Restaurant’s Board of Directors, Darden COO Gene Lee is weighing an offer to become interim CEO. View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Crisis Management; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Margolis, Joshua D., H. Lawrence Culp, James Barnett, and Aldo Sesia. "Gene Lee Navigates the Darden Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 418-015, March 2018. (Revised September 2018.)