Hero's Journey - Publications - Faculty & Research

2013
Working Paper

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention

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11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

pick up our hero, Jim Barton, at a latter point in his career, as he's offered the opportunity to lead the transformation of a struggling medium-sized military aircraft company into a successful twenty-first-century commercial airplane company. We are filling our View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2016
News

New Venture Competition Winners Announced

world’s problems, and look at those problems as opportunities.” Jeff Sandefer (MBA 1986), teacher and founder of the Acton School of Business and Acton Academy, also offered poignant remarks as the guest speaker, drawing from his entrepreneurial View Details

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

mechanism we used to facilitate reader/student introspection was end-of-chapter/cases Reflections. Also, we experimented with audio versions of book chapters in the classroom. We went on to continue Jim Barton's hero's View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

reader/student introspection was end-of-chapter/cases Reflections. Also, we experimented with audio versions of book chapters in the classroom. We went on to continue Jim Barton's hero's journey in a second... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2023
News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

about Marketus, a young man who leaves home for the first time and travels to an island on a quest to answer some of life’s basic questions. The book, a conversation with the hero's inner voice, is divided into four fundamental sections:... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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