Concepts - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2024
News

The Bookshelf: Try As One Might

A professor of management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on design thinking, Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981) helps people make better decisions through experimentation. The concept... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; experimentation; innovation; process

01 Jun 1997
News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

manages to combine sophisticated concepts of physics with high fantasy in a marvelous way." Heartlight was followed by the equally acclaimed The Ancient One and The Merlin Effect, contemporary mythic tales featuring an adventurous young... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Jun 2000
News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

The article helped catalyze the thinking of many in the nonprofit field and illuminated and encouraged the evolving concept of "venture philanthropy." Drawing on the expertise of HBS faculty in finance, negotiation, and entrepreneurship,... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Jun 2007
News

Alumni Books

innovative concepts and models (including The Managerial Target); and describes, interrelates, and integrates about 100 gurus’ major concepts, processes, models, and practices into a single unified practice of management model. The Speed... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2002
News

To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

community. The program, which received thunderous applause, underscored the School's long-held mission of empowering its graduates to make a difference, a concept Dean Kim B. Clark returned to often during his dinner remarks at Shad Hall.... View Details

19 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

guidance algorithms to help robots intelligently operate on beating hearts, the lungs, and brain. My Master of Science (MS) degree helped me develop a vernacular for technical concepts in robotics, cellular biology, human anatomy, and... View Details

Profile

Joseph Blair

on traditional energy, particularly on the intersection of energy and politics.” In his FIELD 2 project in Chennai, India, Joe and his teammates “worked on Microsoft’s brick-and-mortar retail concept for India. We ran focus groups,... View Details

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Special Collections & Archives | Baker Library

its reach into nearly every sector of the American economy, and the impact of the firm’s collapse. Explore the Lehman Bros. Exhibit From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969 Explores the... View Details

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details

04 Jan 2016
News

Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation

through YPO, and now through a number of other initiatives, in getting people past this concept that they know everything about the other. We realized early on that probably the most dangerous four-letter word in the English language is... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

The Giving Tree

that legacy, one branch of which is shown below. William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) Founding Cochair, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation “The case method was a brand-new concept to me. I was on a very steep learning curve, but it was... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 2002
News

Replicating Toyota's Success

The idea of human cloning is controversial, but cloning a successful business concept remains as desirable as ever. For HBS assistant professor Steven J. Spear, this pursuit led him to Toyota, whose perennial leadership in quality... View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

jacket—a simple design with white and yellow lettering over a black background—emerged from more than 60 entries in a design challenge Lakhani ran on the website TopCoder. We asked Lakhani to discuss the book and the concept of user... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

power in the region. An explanation, rather, lies in nationalism: in the degree to which these countries constructed and embraced their own concepts of national identity and allowed such concepts to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

Finance Corporation, as well as western non-governmental organizations, are now explicitly earmarking 30 to 40 percent of their total funds toward adaptation concepts like dams, irrigation, flood control, reflective roof coverings, and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

09 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 9

Battilana, Julie, and Matthew Lee Abstract—Hybrid organizations that combine multiple organizational forms deviate from socially legitimate templates for organizing and thus experience unique organizing challenges. In this paper, we introduce and develop the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne conducted an email interview with Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria about their new book, Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices.Silverthorne: How did the concept of the four-drive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

more rapid learning from internal and external use of those technologies. Q: In days gone by, the great R&D labs were affordable only to the largest companies. Can smaller companies use the concept of open innovation to boost their... View Details