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- November 2013
- Teaching Note
8 Spruce Street
By: Arthur I Segel
The case begins in March 2009 during the depths of the recession with Forest City Ratner (FCR) Companies, a New York City based developer, facing the decision to halt construction half-way on 8 Spruce Street, the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, or...
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- September 2006 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Fritidsresor Under Pressure (A): The First 10 Hours
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
When a tsunami hit Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, the leadership team at a Swedish tour company must manage a devastating crisis affecting thousands of its customers and employees in Thailand. Documents the challenges the company faced in the first ten hours of...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Leadership;
Crisis Management;
Natural Disasters;
Tourism Industry;
Thailand;
Sweden
Margolis, Joshua D., Vincent Marie Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Fritidsresor Under Pressure (A): The First 10 Hours." Harvard Business School Case 407-007, September 2006. (Revised March 2012.)
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Norton Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, no. 110 (2009): 152-159 Abstract The present investigation explores the neural mechanisms underlying the impact of social influence on...
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Martha Lagace
- January 1987 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Baker Precision Instruments, Inc.
By: Ramchandran Jaikumar, Roy Shapiro, Donald Rosenfield and Kathryn E. Stecke
A rapidly growing machine parts manufacturer is trying to decide whether to acquire an advanced Flexible Manufacturing System or Systems. The selection decisions must address the impact of new technology, the effect of setup times on production planning and capacity,...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Cost vs Benefits;
Machinery and Machining;
Production;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Management Systems;
Manufacturing Industry;
Industrial Products Industry
Jaikumar, Ramchandran, Roy Shapiro, Donald Rosenfield, and Kathryn E. Stecke. "Baker Precision Instruments, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 687-052, January 1987. (Revised January 2002.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
G.I. Joe Phenomena: Understanding the Limits of Metacognitive Awareness on Debiasing
By: Ariella S. Kristal and Laurie R. Santos
Knowing about one’s biases does not always allow one to overcome those biases— a phenomenon referred to as the G. I. Joe fallacy. We explore why knowing about a bias doesn’t necessarily change biased behavior. We argue that seemingly disparate G. I. Joe...
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Keywords:
Biases;
Judgment;
Decision-making;
Nudge;
Debiasing;
Illusions;
Prejudice and Bias;
Decision Making;
Behavior;
Change
Kristal, Ariella S., and Laurie R. Santos. "G.I. Joe Phenomena: Understanding the Limits of Metacognitive Awareness on Debiasing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-084, January 2021.
- March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Exercise
The Future of BioPasteur
By: Giovanni Gavetti and Francesca Gino
The purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias....
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Outcome or Result;
Groups and Teams;
Prejudice and Bias;
Strategy
Gavetti, Giovanni, and Francesca Gino. "The Future of BioPasteur." Harvard Business School Exercise 711-508, March 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- 18 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
two nuclear physicists for grandparents, I grew up in a strongly STEM household. My family fostered in me a desire to understand how things worked and I latched on to the then-nascent Internet and computer...
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- Research Summary
Overview
By: Shikhar Ghosh
I am focused on exploring the human side of developing early stage entrepreneurial ventures. These enterprises are characterized by the pursuit of opportunity, shortage of resources to pursue their goals and uncertainty at every step of the journey. Some of the...
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- November 10, 2022
- Article
5 Ways Startups Can Prepare for a Recession
By: Lou Shipley
Startups face unique challenges during economic downturns. They typically aren’t yet profitable and so are reliant on outside funding—and therefore are especially exposed when macroeconomic conditions change. To make it through a recession, startup CEOs should hit the...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Culture;
Sales;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decisions;
Inflation and Deflation;
Financial Crisis;
Employee Relationship Management;
Business Startups;
Credit
Shipley, Lou. "5 Ways Startups Can Prepare for a Recession." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (November 10, 2022).
- 2010
- Working Paper
A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance
By: Andrea Ryan, Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano
This article describes the consumer finance sector in the US since World War II. We first define the sector in terms of the functions delivered by firms (payments, savings/investing, borrowing, managing risk, and providing advice.) We provide time series evidence on...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Borrowing and Debt;
Mortgages;
Personal Finance;
Business History;
Innovation and Invention;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Ryan, Andrea, Gunnar Trumbull, and Peter Tufano. "A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-058, December 2010.
Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities
By: David S. Scharfstein and Sergey Chernenko
We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement bias in...
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Keywords:
Racial Disparity;
Paycheck Protection Program;
Measurement Error;
AI and Machine Learning;
Race;
Measurement and Metrics;
Equality and Inequality;
Prejudice and Bias;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Outcome or Result
Scharfstein, David S., and Sergey Chernenko. "The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities." Working Paper, April 2023.
- 14 May 2019
- HBS Seminar
Patti Williams, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
- April 2009
- Case
Merck: Managing Vioxx (A)
By: Robert L. Simons, Kathryn Rosenberg and Natalie Kindred
This two-class case series allows students to stand in the shoes of CEO Ray Gilmartin during the unfolding stages of a reputational crisis. Merck's mission statement claims to "put patients first," but the company is widely criticized for putting profit before patient...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Crisis Management;
Reputation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Customers;
Business or Company Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Corporate Accountability;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Simons, Robert L., Kathryn Rosenberg, and Natalie Kindred. "Merck: Managing Vioxx (A)." Harvard Business School Case 109-080, April 2009.
- January 2011
- Case
Shar Matin (A)
By: David A. Thomas and Elisa Farri
The head of the subsidiary of a US company faced the decision to present an aggressive growth plan despite his CFO's lack of support.
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
United States
Thomas, David A., and Elisa Farri. "Shar Matin (A)." Harvard Business School Case 411-082, January 2011.
- 24 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry
- March 2003 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Hudson Manufacturing Company
By: Paul A. Gompers and Vanessa del Valle Broussard
Concerns the decision by Brett Keith and Owen Colligan to purchase Hudson Manufacturing, a maker of heaters and air filtration units for the military. Keith and Colligan have organized a search fund and identified Hudson as a potential buyout. The decline in the...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment;
Pollutants;
Industrial Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Gompers, Paul A., and Vanessa del Valle Broussard. "Hudson Manufacturing Company." Harvard Business School Case 203-064, March 2003. (Revised November 2009.)
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
To Succeed With Purpose, Make it Personal
- June 2021
- Case
CFM International (A): Building a Durable Partnership That Works
By: Ranjay Gulati, Yves Doz, Kim Wilkinson and Kerry Herman
It is spring 1995, and the CFM partnership—a joint venture between GE Aviation and France’s jet engine manufacturer Snecma—is facing difficult challenges. The parent companies must decide whether and how to renew their nascent partnership agreement, in the face of...
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Gulati, Ranjay, Yves Doz, Kim Wilkinson, and Kerry Herman. "CFM International (A): Building a Durable Partnership That Works." Harvard Business School Case 421-066, June 2021.
- Article
Does 'Could' Lead to Good? On the Road to Moral Insight
Dilemmas featuring competing moral imperatives are prevalent in organizations and are difficult to resolve. Whereas prior research has focused on how individuals adjudicate among these moral imperatives, we study the factors that influence when individuals find...
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Keywords:
Moral Insight;
Ethical Dilemma;
Could Mindset;
Divergent Thinking;
Moral Sensibility;
Creativity;
Decision Choices and Conditions
Zhang, Ting, Francesca Gino, and Joshua D. Margolis. "Does 'Could' Lead to Good? On the Road to Moral Insight." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 3 (June 2018): 857–895.