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- May 2002 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
SG Cowen: New Recruits
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Chip Rae, director of recruiting at SG Cowen, must decide which recruits to keep after the final interview process for new outside associate hires. Along with team captains assigned to each school, he reviews the criteria used to make hiring decisions. Their new...
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Keywords:
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Decision Making;
Management Practices and Processes;
Service Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. "SG Cowen: New Recruits." Harvard Business School Case 402-028, May 2002. (Revised January 2006.)
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor MacKay combines theory and measurement to deliver new insights about price competition and consumer preferences. In current and published papers, his research addresses how strategic pricing decisions may be influenced by algorithms, long-term contracts,... View Details
Benjamin C. Esty
Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details
- 2022
- Article
A Human-Centric Take on Model Monitoring
By: Murtuza Shergadwala, Himabindu Lakkaraju and Krishnaram Kenthapadi
Predictive models are increasingly used to make various consequential decisions in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, finance, and policy. It becomes critical to ensure that these models make accurate predictions, are robust to shifts in the data, do not rely on...
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Shergadwala, Murtuza, Himabindu Lakkaraju, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi. "A Human-Centric Take on Model Monitoring." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 10 (2022): 173–183.
- 18 Feb 2021
- News
What You Gain When You Give Things Up
- June 2004
- Case
Aventis SA (A): Planning for a Merger
By: Joshua D. Margolis and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Eight executives at Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc must make four crucial decisions on the eve of merging their companies to become Aventis--what would become the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm. In addition to formulating a vision and strategy, the two firms must...
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Keywords:
Problems and Challenges;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Horizontal Integration;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Culture;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Margolis, Joshua D., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Aventis SA (A): Planning for a Merger." Harvard Business School Case 404-003, June 2004.
- 2021
- Book
The Four Elements: Finding Right Livelihood in the 21st Century
By: Timothy Butler
This is a book for all who are facing career and life transitions. At such junctures, our decisions require the full self, and astute thinking alone will not carry us into the new place that our lives demand. The Four Elements shares the recent research of Dr....
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Keywords:
Meaningfulness;
Career Satisfaction;
Personal Development and Career;
Transition;
Decision Making
Butler, Timothy. The Four Elements: Finding Right Livelihood in the 21st Century. Open Boundary Press, 2021.
- Article
Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making
By: Marlyse F. Haward, Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz and Baruch Fischhoff
Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or intensive care (IC)-are presented or (b) their order of presentation. Methods: 309...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Values and Beliefs;
Personal Characteristics;
Attitudes;
Motivation and Incentives;
Family and Family Relationships;
Health Care and Treatment
Haward, Marlyse F., Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz, and Baruch Fischhoff. "Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making." Pediatrics 129, no. 5 (May 2012): 891–902.
- 03 Apr 2013
- News
A 4-step guide to landing a start-up job
- August 1995
- Case
Slade Plating Department, The
By: Linda A. Hill
Describes a conflict between the values and norms of a segment of an internal social system and those of management and the wider culture. Includes decision opportunity. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Hill, Linda A. "Slade Plating Department, The." Harvard Business School Case 496-018, August 1995.
- January 2011
- Supplement
Shar Matin (C)
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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Thomas, David A., and Elisa Farri. "Shar Matin (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 411-084, January 2011.
- October 2006 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Clifford Chance: Repotting the Tree
By: Arthur I Segel, A. Eugene Kohn and Nhat Minh Nguyen
Clifford Chance, LLP, a global law firm headquartered in London, needs to make a decision whether to stay in the central business district of London or move to a redeveloped business park at Canary Wharf, three miles outside of central London. Peter Charleton, head of...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Business Headquarters;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Geographic Location;
Logistics;
London
Segel, Arthur I., A. Eugene Kohn, and Nhat Minh Nguyen. "Clifford Chance: Repotting the Tree." Harvard Business School Case 207-073, October 2006. (Revised March 2009.)
- September 2011
- Supplement
Exeter Group, Inc. (B)
By: Robert G. Eccles, Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
This case presents a brief description of the decisions the company made regarding whether or not to pursue each of the four projects that are the basis of the (A) case.
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Eccles, Robert G., Das Narayandas, and Kerry Herman. "Exeter Group, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 412-035, September 2011.
- October 1984
- Case
NIKE (A1)
Presents a specific marketing policy decision on the servicing of large, important chain store customers versus giving priority to small specialty running equipment stores.
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Marketing Strategy;
Distribution Channels;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Christensen, C. Roland. "NIKE (A1)." Harvard Business School Case 385-026, October 1984.
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
The customer rewards cards that clutter wallets and clog key chains of many a shopper may soon be no more, as retailers move from physical to digital (read: mobile apps) forms of loyalty program member identification. It's a smart...
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- July 1998 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
The Pellegrins (A)
By: John A. Davis
A father and son working together in their family-owned publishing company are at a decision point because the son feels he is ready to become president at the age of 31.
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Management Succession;
Family and Family Relationships;
Family Ownership;
Publishing Industry
Davis, John A. "The Pellegrins (A) ." Harvard Business School Case 899-009, July 1998. (Revised February 2004.)
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
PublicationsManagement Accounting: Information for Decision Making and Strategy Execution Authors:Anthony A. Atkinson, Robert S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura, View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- October 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Century Bank: Closing Time?
By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Bill Kwon
Barry Sloane, second-generation Chairman, President, and CEO of his family’s bank, Century Bank, weighed whether to sell to Eastern Bank. As a small regional bank, Century faced a number of challenging trends, such as digitization and market share decline in the coming...
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Keywords:
Family Office;
Business Exit;
Banking;
Family;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
United States;
Acquisition;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Family Business;
Family and Family Relationships;
Interpersonal Communication;
Decision Making;
Finance;
Banks and Banking;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Emotions;
Banking Industry;
Boston;
Massachusetts;
United States
Cohen, Lauren, Grace Headinger, and Bill Kwon. "Century Bank: Closing Time?" Harvard Business School Case 223-040, October 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- August 2019 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group
By: Christina R. Wing, Suraj Srinivasan and Esel Çekin
This case focuses on a large Saudi Arabian industrial conglomerate and family business Zamil Group’s corporate and family governance journey. The 12 sons of the founder led and grew the group successfully after taking over from their father in 1961. The secret to their...
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Keywords:
Middle East;
Family Ownership;
Family-owned Business;
Saudi Arabia;
Family Business;
Governance;
Organizational Structure;
Values and Beliefs;
Steel Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Middle East;
Saudi Arabia;
Bahrain
Wing, Christina R., Suraj Srinivasan, and Esel Çekin. "Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group." Harvard Business School Case 620-009, August 2019. (Revised March 2022.)