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  • January 2014
  • Case

MIT Mystery Hunt: The Answer is Secondary

By: Willy Shih and Karen Robinson
The MIT Mystery Hunt is an annual puzzle-based scavenger hunt at MIT. It is run every year by a different team, and every year is slightly different as teams try new ideas and decide whether to keep or ignore new ideas from previous years. As the Mystery Hunt has... View Details
Keywords: Puzzle-solving; Puzzle Hunt; MIT Mystery Hunt; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Education Industry; Massachusetts; Cambridge; United States
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Shih, Willy, and Karen Robinson. "MIT Mystery Hunt: The Answer is Secondary." Harvard Business School Case 614-050, January 2014.
  • 23 Feb 2022
  • HBS Seminar

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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Hunting Red Balloons

first person or team to locate all ten balloons. Pledging to donate the prize to AIDS research, an HBS team of four students and two professors drew upon the School’s network, including alumni, for the balloon search. Although a group from View Details
Keywords: contests; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

remains mysterious because of the company's obsession with secrecy. This note considers the ingredients of Apple's success and its quest to develop, in the words of CEO Steve Jobs, insanely great products. Focuses on 1) design thinking,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction. Mattias E. Fibiger : Winner of the 2024 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia,... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Ideas) By Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera (TGMP 3, 1998) The MIT Press We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Can't Knock the Hustle

POSEUR: A "living statue" mysteriously materialized A guerrilla-marketing campaign designed to promote a book about rapper and entertainment mogul Jay-Z became the subject of a recent EC case by HBS professor Anita Elberse. The... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

http://hbr.org/product/endeavor-miami-heats-up/an/814043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-050 MIT Mystery Hunt: The Answer Is Secondary The MIT View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

How I Got to Google

Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) (courtesy Prem Ramaswami) Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) (courtesy Prem Ramaswami) Shireen Soheili (MBA 2016) (courtesy Shireen Soheili) Shireen Soheili (MBA 2016) (courtesy Shireen Soheili) During her job hunt for a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Ink

will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time management during a TEDx... View Details
  • Web

Vanity and Virtue: Allegories on the Pursuit of Riches - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Rapine. Following Betrayal, Usury, and Lust are False Joy and other Idle Pleasures. 4 [ An Allegorical Hunt ] view image Engraved and published by Philip Galle (1537–1612), after Johannes Stradanus (1536–1605). [Antwerp, 1578]. 21.7 x 24... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

reaction on capital markets. It was written by Harvard Business School assistant professors Gwen Yu and Francois Brochet, with MIT Sloan of Management doctoral student Patricia Naranjo. Although targeted at foreign executives, the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

methodology? Bernstein:This study would not have been possible without my collaborator and close friend from the days of my doctoral studies, Ben Waber. After finishing his doctorate at the MIT Media Lab, Ben co-founded (and is CEO of)... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 15 Feb 2023
  • News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

pretty used to explaining what it takes to decarbonize the atmosphere. The basic science has been understood for nearly a century and the first movers in the sector got their start more than a decade ago. But the process is still a View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Vive la Madeleine!

mysterious about a little cake made of butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and a bit of vanilla. It’s the aroma those ingredients make in a hot oven that can cause anyone in the vicinity to inhale deeply and wonder, in an animal sort of way, how... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Higher Ground

decision to conduct Prieto didn’t pursue executive life to disown music. He’s just inquisitive by nature. “I’m still propelled more today by curiosity than anything else,” he says. It’s a family trait. His father graduated from MIT with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance
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