Product Creativity - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor

Chuck Porter and the type of work he wanted to do, I think this may have been an intentional and very smart strategy. Advertising campaigns for products with strong points of differentiation are much more fun and easier to develop in a... View Details

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

product in this period. Now suddenly, we're so good at those two things that by the 1950s and 60s we start to overwhelm the environment. So we're making good stuff, we're making lots of customers and we're taxing our world. And that's the... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

want to know who burps the most in your family. Learn what line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, and pictographs are, and how and when to use them to represent data. Each project shows how to build a chart or graph and ties it all together with a View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

will be assigned to work with companies in roughly a dozen different countries on the introduction of a new product or service. They’ll do a fair amount of advance preparation in Allston, and then during the January Term, they’ll travel... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2025
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Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward

are vital to our classrooms; their voices enrich case discussions and their insights contribute to a deeper understanding of global business practices. Should foreign students not be allowed to enroll, we will need to draw on the View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up

trade organization, the Outdoor Industry Association. In 1999 GoLite introduced its first line of products. They consisted of Jardine designs to be used together: backpack, sleeping pad and bag, insulated clothing, tent, umbrella, and other gear. Total weight: about 9... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission

for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

brand associated with ArtLifting's message of empowerment for artists who are homeless or disabled. Customers see that. Clients see that. More importantly, employees and CEOs are reminded of it every day. And then externally, the opportunities for unique View Details

24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts

where the creativity is. That's where you can galvanize, you know, and excite other people to join that journey. And so, I realize now, analyzing after the fact, that that's what I like doing. So, if you're mentally alive and curious,... View Details

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

it hopes will be a long and intimate creative collaboration, providing the artist or band feedback on songs and setting them up with just the right producer and recording engineer to create a harmonious chemistry. In the case of labels... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

traditions with you. This guide gives tips about turning everyday ingredients and products into a simple, two-minute ritual in four steps: purify, polish, prep, and nourish. But this book is also about a lifestyle, how you eat and sleep.... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

long-standing tradition of being one of the state’s few Democratic pockets outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with a history of labor unrest and unionization dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. That energy carried workers along for decades, until iron... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a... View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

delivery app Dolly, and Peter is creative and brand director at PitchBook, which he likens to a “Bloomberg for the private capital markets.” Peter Escher reads to Josh while Diane Escher tackles toothbrushing duty as part of the bedtime... View Details

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

sector are doing their part to accelerate startup activity for founders across the board. Many also believe the 2011 revolution was an additional catalyst. Business, they maintain, is the outlet by which creativity can currently find its... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable division. After that, I was View Details

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