Imagination - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

“There are important implications for the quality of accounting information in corporations and in capital markets” "We could imagine that as the audit industry becomes more concentrated, the big auditors would become increasingly... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

for the course,” she says. Edelman provides straightforward summaries of his research on his personal website. “I can’t imagine being excited about writing articles read only by other academics,” he says. “I think I could do it. But it... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

what you're actually trying to accomplish. Kenny: What do you think about the strategy of leaking them out? I could imagine that you want to build up suspense, you want to have that “a-ha” moment when the ad comes on [for the first time].... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

further and highlighting their products’ shortcomings, companies might save consumers that step and help them buy with confidence. And, with time, hiding a product’s downsides might eventually become its own operating risk. “If transparency becomes more of a norm in... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

already come to understand where the phrase “It takes a village comes from”. Though we haven’t been able to surround ourselves with the village of family and friends we had imagined due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I am thankful for several... View Details

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria

they will be solved when people with expertise in a wide range of areas—from artificial intelligence to human behavior to medicine to finance—collaborate, each learning from the others as their collective imaginations coalesce into... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Giving Live Sports Another Dimension

their home viewing, and the advent of innovations like 5G, cashless payment systems, and mobile wayfinding solutions are really elevating the venue experience.” —Angela Ruggiero Jonathan Mariner (MBA 1978), Senior Advisor for Imagination... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge

health care information digitally, provided they have access to the right technology and tools. Heard: “My brother has a chronic neurological condition and has spent decades navigating the complexity and challenges of the health care system,” says Ross. “It’s hard to... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; data; technology; Blavatnik Fellowship

Career Coach

Aspen Wang

appointment, please send Aspen a quick email as well as signing up on calendly. Work Experience: Trimtab Impact (Impact Investing), Imagine Worldwide (Edtech NGO in developing countries) and McKinsey & Company (Strategy Consultant) View Details

Portrait Project

Sasha Grinshpun

Have you ever been to Carnaval? I traveled to Salvador, Brazil, to witness (okay, okay, and participate in) the debauchery and mindlessness. Imagine the scene: thousands of youngsters dancing to Brazilian pop in the streets—in the... View Details

20 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting

developments. Imagine if you were allowed to represent your income on your tax forms and on your mortgage application differently. In a moment of weakness, you might portray your economic situation in two distinct ways. Unlike... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

Portrait Project

Anusha Rajadorai

on the end of a see-saw, I would leap as it reached the highest point and pretend to be Superman soaring. Dodging barely-there traffic, I would play badminton on the gravel road over a non-existent net. My imagination was vast, and for... View Details

13 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Video Perspectives: Magashe Ngoepe

opportunities. Every day, when I walk through the corridors here at Harvard Business School, or whenever a lecturer says my name, Magashe, which is my grandfather's name, I hear the echo of somebody who would have never in his wildest dreams View Details

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

bags" participants were asked to imagine approaching a supermarket to do their grocery shopping with their own bags. The "without bags" group received nearly identical instructions, but nothing about bags was mentioned. All... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

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What We Do | Research Associates

Schneider, BA, Politics and Public Policy, Brown University 0 Book Project Imagining Beauty: The Global Beauty Business since 1820 Because the topic and the sources are so far-reaching, you need to have a creative, open-minded approach to... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Popular Series Returns

For the fourth year, HBS Club members can dial in to hear a faculty member speak on a topic of current interest, followed by a Q&A session. The Virtual Learning Series resumes September 15 with a talk on social networking by Associate Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski;... View Details

Portrait Project

Kimberly Dionne Spears

given me to celebrate a life full of hope, love, grace and peace to serve others with compassion My life is about creating interconnections and new realities - recognizing the power of truth and the blessing of tolerance. Free to express myself without limits and... View Details

Portrait Project

Charlotte Keeley

as roadblocks, not opportunities. I have started to see these squares as dancing squares again, for the first time in a long time. My grandfather is no longer alive, but his imagination is. My plan is to stop and dance more. View Details

27 Oct 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

dehumanizing, ugly, and dark places. If you tried to imagine the worst place possible to put someone, that’s probably what you would come up with.” Reset’s first residential program facility in Berkeley, California, opened last year with... View Details

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