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Do Yoon Kim
research interests have been changing, but broadly relate to industrial organization and organizational economics. One interest that has persisted with me throughout my education is the idea of measuring shared beliefs and their effect on... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
question, “What do exceptional leaders of innovation do?” More specifically, “What is the connection between leadership and innovation?” Many of these ideas are examined in the book Hill coauthored, Collective Genius: The Art and Practice... View Details
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Lindsay Ullman
someday." Right now, her focus is on entrepreneurship. "I’ve been working on a start-up idea related to recruiting, matching great people to great jobs using technology," Lindsay says. Some of the inspiration came from her... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Mom Corps
O'KELLY AND KIDS: An idea grows up. As a new mom doing freelance CPA work, Allison Karl O’Kelly (MBA ’99) had an idea for a start-up. The result is Mom Corps, which connects companies looking for top-tier,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
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Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation
own, willingness is not enough; leaders also must foster specific capabilities—the ability to generate a marketplace of ideas through discourse and debate, to test and refine ideas through quick experiments,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
night. I have new ideas for products and product features all the time, which I call bold beats. An example of a small bold beat was animals that move in FarmVille. This took a day of engineering, but when we turned it on, our players... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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RoboCar, the Sequel
thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive on roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the 1960s and is still in use at West Virginia University. That was... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
believe in the idea that once you empower women, they, in turn, help their families and their communities. So, we do it in a way that is sustainable. It's a for-profit social enterprise. “We have an exclusive line of quality products in... View Details
Frederick W. Smith
Capitalizing upon an idea that came to him while in college, Smith and his company have single handedly built and dominated the overnight delivery industry. Though the idea was slow growing at first, FedEx... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
make great progress in society. How can we get started down this path? One way is to introduce progressive ideas and practices that demonstrate to the world we care about more than profits. It's not that profits aren't important; no... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
The best ideas and innovations are probably not invented by your company. But learning to find and work with leading partners in R&D calls for a massive cultural change, beginning with getting past the "not invented here"... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2013
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Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001
for her 10th Reunion, says that giving back to the School “is a way to contribute to a tradition of education that transforms people’s lives.” Her decision to designate her support for entrepreneurship and innovation reflects her belief that “new View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
between ideas from unrelated fields; challenging common wisdom; scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to find new ways of doing things; constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Convening Power
A significant new structure will open in 2018 on the HBS campus, designed to harness the energy, creativity, and ideas of the thousands of students, faculty, alumni, and leaders of all kinds who convene at the School each year. The... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
of 2000. A customer entering the new center was immediately greeted at the door by a host—an idea borrowed from Wal-Mart and other retail stores. At freestanding kiosks, associates stood ready to help the customer open accounts, set up... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
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Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
Quartner started her career in banking at Credit Suisse and Nina Mullen started her career in consulting at Bain) ended up starting a natural remedies brand, Hilma. Our process before taking the entrepreneurial leap: 1. Have an idea... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm,... View Details
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Research in Action - Alumni
Giving Research in Action Giving Research in Action Power in Practice The inspiration for and impact of faculty research This video series showcases how HBS faculty pursue research that resonates with their passions and generates powerful View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Dressing by Number
More Retail Revolutions Manufacturing Makeup on Demand Although it isn’t available yet, Mink, a 3D home printer that produces custom makeup, has already made serial inventor Grace Choi (MBA 2013) a cosmetics celebrity. Katrina Lake knew as far back as 2010 that there... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
true of her techno-savvy son Adam (MBA '98). "He's had a million ideas forever," Kanner laughs. "I was always Adam's sounding board." One of those ideas was for an e-commerce Web site that would offer... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna