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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
advice to restaurant owners, staff, investors, and patrons that we offer below. How did it deteriorate so quickly? Restaurants are universally labor intensive—by any productivity metric they rank among the least View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
days of time each week. They’ve stressed the importance of time spent together for creative collaboration as well as the need for team-building and the preservation of the organization’s chemistry. On the other hand, we have responses to...
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by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
a hedge against potential product liability claims but also as a marketing edge. Finally, eBay has used litigation in creative ways to protect the information on its sites from firms like Bidder's Edge that...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP of View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
emphasized autonomy as an operating norm, to the point where employees who had worked in more conventional organizations found the transition jarring. Leaders integrated crowdsourcing into decision-making, most notably in the firm’s View Details
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by Ranjay Gulati
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
working to commercialize a Tufts University technology that stabilizes vaccines into a thin film strip which can be shipped and stored without refrigeration, eliminating the need for the cold-chain. Vaxess strives to not only lower the cost of distribution, but also...
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Interviewing - Alumni
which you are interviewing. What You Need to Know Prepare. The work and research you do prior to your interview conversation is essential to a successful interview. Meaningful preparation leads to a productive and positive conversation....
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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
or, in other words, to exploit and explore. To achieve your goals, consider leveraging cross-functional teams, employing creative exercises, adjusting expectations and deliverables, supporting an agile enterprise and generating customer...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- November 2019
- Article
Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup boot camp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality...
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Peer Effects;
Field Experiment;
Interpersonal Communication;
Creativity;
Personal Characteristics;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention
Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning. "Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment." Art. 103811. Research Policy 48, no. 9 (November 2019).
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
to classmates who had experience creating products or processes from ground zero and was inspired by cases about entrepreneurs whose creative concepts have benefited the world. “HBS pushes you to be...
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Past Issues - Alumni
Table of Contents March 2012 Where Innovation Rules HBS alumni bring creative approaches to problem-solving to power their companies’ successes The Accidental Innovator Sal Khan is building a one-room schoolhouse for the world Get View Details
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Departments - Employment
and products that: help faculty develop courses to achieve their learning objectives; provide in-depth research support from our information experts and global network; help faculty, students, staff, and alumni to access and use world...
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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation
invention and creativity within the culture of a small, science-based research and manufacturing company. He argued that the industrial process should be "dedicated to the discernment of deep human needs." 2 His philosophical insights...
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting
funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical device engineer working on products for Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Units. I came to school passionate about access...
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- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
Ask jazz fans the world over to name their favorite compilation, and chances are their response is Kind of Blue. With music that is sophisticated and sublime, spare yet complex, trumpeter and composer Miles Davis (1926-1991) reached dazzling new heights of View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
options. They can invest in new as well as shelved technologies and product designs that are particularly effective in mitigating risk and improving safety—even when they are initially inferior in terms of costs, user-friendliness, or...
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by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
rises to the top levels are very productive and very diligent individuals who tend not to reflect and are extremely efficient at deploying other people's ideas," implying that this type of leader is not likely to understand,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
more than a decade old, with some notable successes—a new mission in 2004, a reorganization in 2007—but with unresolved problems. Fahey says his leisurely pace of change was deliberate, that creative people take longer to accept change....
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