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- 22 Jun 2022
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Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people should tap into their “full self” to help them make the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2018
- News
A crisis for voting rights
- May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal
In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and...
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Market Entry and Exit;
Demand and Consumers;
Network Effects;
Media;
Society;
Urban Development;
Sustainable Cities;
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Digital Platforms;
Strategy;
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Relationships;
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Advertising Industry;
Technology Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
Massachusetts;
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Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Amy Klopfenstein, and Amram Migdal. "Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?" Harvard Business School Case 820-098, May 2020. (Revised December 2022.)
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How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions
The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the best analysis they can, but they still don’t know what to do. Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and...
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Badaracco, Joseph L. "How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 9 (September 2016): 104–107.
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
retaliation happens and that companies worry about that," Steenburgh says. "But nobody benefits when both companies are retaliating. One effort just offsets the other." Measuring the different effects of these marketing strategies can help brand managers...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Feb 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making
- June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund
By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decisions;
Capital;
Investment Banking;
Investment Funds;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Ownership;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Wealth;
Expansion;
Financial Services Industry;
China;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Xiaoyu Gu. "Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund." Harvard Business School Case 311-137, June 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
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Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy?
By: Samuel Antill
In U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate often reduce creditor recovery, costing creditors billions of dollars every year. I exploit the within-district random assignment of...
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Bankruptcy;
Bankruptcy Reorganization;
Recovery Rate;
Structural Estimation;
Roy Model;
363 Sales;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Antill, Samuel. "Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy?" Journal of Financial Economics 144, no. 2 (May 2022): 523–546.
- 14 Aug 2012
- News
To Be Number One, Get the Right Number Two
- April 2013 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
AIG and the American Taxpayers (A)
By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008...
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Property Rights;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Markets;
Financial Crisis;
Property;
Insurance Industry;
United States
Ramanna, Karthik, and Matthew Shaffer. "AIG and the American Taxpayers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 113-124, April 2013. (Revised June 2016.)
- 16 Nov 2023
- News
The Right Kind of Wrong
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people should tap into their “full...
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- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses. Information-based systems, such...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people should tap into their “full...
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- 02 Mar 2011
- News
Egypt faces critical decision on its future
- February 2016 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights
By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins
In January 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the United States, launched a campaign of civil disobedience in Selma, Alabama, to bring national attention to disenfranchisement of black voters in the South. On...
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Rights;
Voting;
Race;
Government and Politics;
Conflict and Resolution;
Leadership;
History;
Alabama
Moss, David, and Dean Grodzins. "Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights." Harvard Business School Case 716-042, February 2016. (Revised August 2021.)
- 16 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision
should purchase the used Toyota Camry. How consumers weigh those decisions is crucial information for retailers, and is the subject of recent research by Harvard Business School doctoral candidates Todd Rogers and Katy Milkman, in...
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- 2011
- Working Paper
The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making
By: Pablo Casas-Arce, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and V.G. Narayanan
This paper analyzes the effects of providing forward-looking metrics on employee decision making. We use data from a southern European bank that, in April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage...
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- 24 Aug 2015
- News
What Facebook’s Anti-Bias Training Program Gets Right
- Blog
Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?
lot of insight into the teaching intent and benefits of each program. Through our conversations with prospective applicants, we are able to narrow down the programs that are just the right fit for a potential applicant's development...
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