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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
acknowledged place in the business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. “Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat,” sings Georges Seurat in the musical Sunday in the Park with... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
research vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Two years of renovations were required to turn it into the DSSV Pressure Drop, a name Vescovo borrowed from a spaceship in author Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels. (Elon Musk also chose names from... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration—the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction mystery. When the champagne corks popped at midnight, however,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
unquenchable appetite for growth and capital. You might remember this scene from 2010’s The Social Network: Movie clip That was a fictionalized telling of Facebook’s rise, but those numbers are real. Silicon Valley produced 32 unicorns in... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
that they can significantly reduce negative emotions by simply changing their inner monologue from “I” to “he” or “she.” Try daydreaming about how a favorite mentor, real life hero, or even fictional character would handle a given... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
to each strategy. By "inviting in the lions" to critique your idea—and being prepared for them—you'll capture busy people's attention, help them grasp your proposal's value, and secure their commitment to implementing the solution. The book presents a fresh... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
pernicious elements of FOBO come in, because this is where it goes from, "I can't decide what I'm going to do Friday," to where it's a real emotional and mental problems, because the more disconnected from reality you are, and the more time you spend filling the gap... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
a high margin. That's similar to a fashion brand like Chanel (though fashion brands have higher margins). Acurio is following a portfolio logic, similar to, say, Penguin, which has Penguin Classics and all kinds of genre fiction like... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. "Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat," sings Georges Seurat in the musical Sunday in the Park with George, a View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
his identity? Three experts comment on this fictional case study in R0901A and R0901Z. Katherine Tsang, the CEO of Standard Chartered Bank in Shanghai, explains the cultural differences between China and France and recommends that Jianguo... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Stick to the Strategy or Make the Sale? A Manufacturer of High-tech Streetlights Considers an Exception to Its New Subscription Model By: Weiss, Mitchell Abstract—A manufacturer of high-tech streetlights considers an exception to its new subscription model. A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you probably are. Harder Than I Thought is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Art Nature Business
conflict. Researching the origins of the individual islands from centuries-old cartographic archives, Kurant aggregates individual territories falsely claimed by imperial rulers and kingdoms onto a single map. Playing with ideas of illusion and truth, these maps look... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
damaged the US’s social psyche, as did widespread drug use and chemical dependency. Vivid pictures of violence in Vietnam on TV plus incessant riots in major US cities began to blur the differences between crime, punishment, and socialized violence. In this View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
when to hire them and in what parts of the world; and determines how to develop, compensate, and motivate them, along with how to form them into project teams and manage the process in a cost effective manner. This case also provides a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
everything from stomach pains to coughs to kidney disease, “Sagwa” was in reality Healy and Bigelow's own formulation. They not only told fictional accounts of its origins but likely invented its name to make their product sound more... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
unexpected connections between fiction and finance. Complete Table of Contents December 2023 The Imposter Among Us The uneasy truth about faking it, making it, and sometimes feeling like a phony Wide Horizon In the wake of his son’s... View Details
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flawed - than from a gallery of heroes and villains. Realism also reveals leaders' struggles and failures and displays the blind spots, assumptions, and behavior that can derail leaders. In addition, fiction lets students see leaders from... View Details