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- July – August 2011
- Article
Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk: Part I
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
Based on an extensive program of case-writing and teaching on risk management, we identify three categories of risk and elaborate on the ways companies can identify and mitigate them, with particular emphasis on strategy execution risks.
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Anette Mikes. "Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk: Part I." Balanced Scorecard Report 13, no. 4 (July–August 2011): 1–6.
- 14 Feb 2014
- News
Q&A: Michael Wheeler on the importance of improvising
- September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
pymetrics: International Expansion
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2018, pymetrics, a solution offering neuroscience-based recruiting tests, closed a $40 million funding round that valued the business at $160 million. Over 60 companies around the globe were using pymetrics tests in their recruiting process, including...
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Keywords:
BrainTech;
Psychodynamics;
Psychology;
Hiring Of Employees;
Hiring;
Strategic Evolution;
Strategy And Execution;
Startup;
Start-up;
Startups;
Start-ups;
Entrepreneur;
Bias;
Rapid Growth Stage;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Employment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Strategy
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "pymetrics: International Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 720-376, September 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
better than the risk for getting into the Internet." Startup Smarts Previous work experience is often the critical factor in helping an aspiring entrepreneur make the judgment calls necessary to spot and...
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- February 2003 (Revised October 2004)
- Background Note
Antamini Simulation Model
By: Peter Tufano
Antamini is a simulation of the value of an investment project whose outcome is uncertain. This case describes the situation facing a natural resource firm as it contemplates bidding on a copper mine in Peru. The bidder faces uncertainties about the ore deposit size...
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Tufano, Peter. "Antamini Simulation Model." Harvard Business School Background Note 203-083, February 2003. (Revised October 2004.)
David A. Moss
David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale. In 1992-1993, he served as a... View Details
- August 2014
- Article
Incentives in a Stage-Gate Process
By: Raul O. Chao, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Many large organizations use a stage‐gate process to manage new product development projects. In a typical stage‐gate process project managers learn about potential ideas from research and exert effort in development while senior executives make intervening go/no‐go...
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Chao, Raul O., Kenneth C. Lichtendahl, and Yael Grushka-Cockayne. "Incentives in a Stage-Gate Process." Production and Operations Management 23, no. 8 (August 2014): 1286–1298.
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
businesses amid the opportunities and uncertainties of developing markets throughout recent decades. Working Knowledge Editor-in-Chief Sean Silverthorne asked Gupta about his experience interviewing Kapur....
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
greatest risk from the disastrous effects of sea-level rise. Yet cities also have the ability to act without waiting for state and federal action, adds Raphael Carty (MBA 1983), former CEO of Callida Energy,...
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Keywords:
Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
- Fall 2022
- Book Review
Book review of 'Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America,' by James P. Kraft
By: Melanie Sheehan
- April 1991 (Revised April 1992)
- Case
Hospital Sector in 1992
Examines the major issues facing the hospital sector in 1992. The environment surrounding the industry is one of great uncertainty and rapid change, and involves significant public policy questions. Describes recent trends, issues and new types of competitors that...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Competition;
Health Care and Treatment;
Policy;
Change;
Health Industry;
United States
Teisberg, Elizabeth O. "Hospital Sector in 1992." Harvard Business School Case 391-167, April 1991. (Revised April 1992.)
- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A4): Sun Peak: Helen Yang and Mark Walden on "Running Sun on Sun"
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
SunPeak was the largest project Sun Microsystems, Inc. had ever undertaken: shifting Sun's entire business transaction system from a mainframe-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to a Sun-based system. Making the shift would be complicated and financially...
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- August 1970
- Case
Hawthorne Plastics
An "imperfect tester" problem involving the decision of how to produce batches of plastic strapping, given uncertainty about the length of the molecular chain in the raw material. A decision on whether to test the raw material and a choice of production process must be...
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Hammond, John S. "Hawthorne Plastics." Harvard Business School Case 171-004, August 1970.
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
lowers the risk of infestation, thereby reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides. Chemicals that are required are delivered in water that circulates and is recycled....
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- 21 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers
Online shopping features that let consumers pay for goods in interest-free installments exploded during the pandemic, but new research questions the riskiness of such services: Are people getting in over their heads? Buy now, pay later (BNPL) financing has snowballed...
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- 11 Jan 2017
- News
The most overlooked leadership skill? Having a moral compass
- Web
Creating Value in Business and Government (HKS-HBS Joint Degree Seminar) - Course Catalog
management styles and processes, or risk management). Students will emerge from this course with an understanding of questions such as: how a regulation is developed and...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of...
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- 28 Oct 2015
- News
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
- Article
Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions
By: Laura Huang and Jone L. Pearce
Using an inductive theory-development study, a field experiment, and a longitudinal field test, we examine early-stage entrepreneurial investment decision making under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Building on existing literature on decision making and risk in...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Decision Making;
Emotions;
Performance Effectiveness
Huang, Laura, and Jone L. Pearce. "Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions." Administrative Science Quarterly 60, no. 4 (December 2015): 634–670.