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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
human-capital development that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are adding... View Details
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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
- 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
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
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 with the creation of associated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-027 Fundraising at St. Camillus Hospital St. Camillus is a fictional non-profit hospital in rural Maine facing a serious budget deficit. As Director of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
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 with the creation of associated fictional case characters... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
by many observers. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507014 Scopie's Enlarged Gland Shrinker Harvard Business School Case 307-035 Describes a firm that markets a laser for a fictional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
capital firm investing in BIPOC founders in the education space. She is also the vice president of advocacy in the Women’s Student Association at HBS, and an author. “As a published fiction writer, I aim to share and amplify the voices of... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
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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
- 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
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
knows, an inspirational business concept is only the beginning of a long and complicated journey marked by unexpected obstacles at every turn. The successful entrepreneur must possess an unshakable belief in his or her goal and - as the trials of this View Details
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Print View - Course Catalog
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
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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