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  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

"Pay our own way? No way." Not long ago, that was the mantra of many a proud nonprofit organization, living on the largesse of government grants and private donations. But with those income sources drying up, suddenly nonprofits are View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • June 2025
  • Article

Ideation with Generative AI—In Consumer Research and Beyond

By: Julian De Freitas, G. Nave and Stefano Puntoni
The use of large language models (LLMs) in consumer research is rapidly evolving, with applications including synthetic data generation, data analysis, and more. However, their role in creative ideation—a cornerstone of consumer research—remains underexplored. Drawing... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning; Creativity; Innovation Strategy
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  • July 2024
  • Case

Replika AI: Alleviating Loneliness (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
Eugenia Kuyda launched Replika AI in 2017 as an empathetic digital companion to combat loneliness and provide emotional support. The platform surged in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering non-judgmental support to isolated users. By 2023, Replika boasted... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Health Pandemics; AI and Machine Learning; Well-being; Technology Industry
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  • February 2008 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

The Center for Creative Leadership

By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) was founded in 1970 on the notion that leadership was not innate but could be learned. CCL evolved into one of the world's top leadership development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Training; Leadership Development; Personal Characteristics
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  • 11 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

says. “What we’re asking is, can we build algorithms that will help find better matches that will allow people to integrate more easily?” The paper presents data from Switzerland and the United States that showed promise in using machine View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • winter 2009
  • Article

Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations

By: Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile
'Improvisational creativity' involves simultaneously identifying new challenges and generating responses, with little or no time to prepare. View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Theory; Performance
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  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

patient, and how is it innovative? “She can be aggressive about pursuing anything interesting, even if it falls outside the usual business domain,” says Mediva Senior Consultant Dai Kiuchi. As an example, he learned about a 25-year... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

Summing Up How do we close the gap between theory and results in selecting leaders? In discussing why our achievements in selecting leaders are less than stellar, contributors offered a rich set of ideas. Given their number, I've tried to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Reimagining China and India

Reshaping Their Futures and Yours (HBS Press). The two countries together are home to roughly a third of the world’s population, and both are undergoing rapid social and economic transformation. Yet most Americans, asserts Khanna, are... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management; Retail Trade
  • 23 Jan 2020
  • News

Bringing Education Back Home

attracting the best professors and paying the professors as high as possible within our social model, we would be able to make a difference by having professors willing to learn as well as the students. “So... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 2022
  • Article

Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas

By: Goran Calic, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis and Sébastien Hélie
While knowledge management researchers acknowledge that individuals transition from generation to implementation of ideas, these transitions are not fully understood. The current article focuses on idea elaboration – defined as the transition of an idea from an... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Innovation and Invention; Learning
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  • 12 May 2015
  • News

A Flash of Insight

explored the military; that left the remaining two pillars of power and influence—business and politics. I applied to, and was accepted by, HBS, the ‘Annapolis of capitalism.’ I decided that I still had much to learn about being an... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • Student-Profile

Talia Gillis

to employees without legal representation, highlighted how difficulties in calculating social benefits, severance packages or assessing settlement offers created significant barriers for employees, rendering many legal protections futile.... View Details
  • 13 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

humblebraggers. The takeaway: Seriously, stop humblebragging! "Not only do we like humblebraggers less that braggers, but we're less likely to be generous to them," Gino says. Next Steps And Lessons Learned Gino says her team plans to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

point that exploration is stifled and inertia sets in. We suggest that mature organizations can sustain exploration by deliberately inducing perturbations in their own processes. Our theory yields testable hypotheses about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Mission in Motion

"bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Related Links Sizing Up Social Impact A Healthy Profit Making Change Bringing It Back Home Opening the Door... View Details
Keywords: summary
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

the large team of researchers looking at COVID-19’s impact on issues of work and organizational psychology, prompting changes for practitioners and human resources professionals. Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Books

overseas. Although it is questionable whether the industry can continue to grow at the same pace as in recent years, the authors predict that venture capital firms will be "an enduring feature on the global economic landscape in the years to come." View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

of 1 percent of the US population. Fewer and fewer American citizens have any connection to the armed forces. A decade later, that’s still a huge concern for me.” Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) CEO and Cofounder, Social Finance Two... View Details