Imagination - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

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

25 Jun 2018
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Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’

Tamin Pechet (MBA 2007) founded and manages a platform of firms that support and invest in innovative water and infrastructure resources. He is CEO of Upwell, chairman of Imagine H2O, and founder of Banyan Water. In this interview, he... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)

Representatives is renowned for its robust level of parliamentary debate, which is a polite way of saying that it can be very noisy and rowdy. I focus by imagining I’m speaking to people watching TV at home.” Seeding next-gen diplomats:... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma

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

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Kiernan Schmitt Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship - Do It! Kiernan Schmitt 13 Jul 2017 Imagine if,... 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

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

Rather, it is about incremental changes that promise to improve your work-life and your work in ways that make them notably better. Creating Change Where No One Could Even Imagine It I chose to conduct the original experiment at The... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

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Michael Cheng | MBA

Michael Cheng History/Mathematics Quincy 2022 Cohort 3 "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." —Jean-Jacques Rousseau Tech areas of interest Renewable energy and artificial intelligence. Formative... View Details

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John Whitehead | Baker Library

new businesses. His personal approach: he sought out and listened to the firm’s clients, identified new business lines, and over time developed these into major service offerings. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine the world of Goldman... 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

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

JJ Singh

ballooning national debt and a financial system in disarray. *** I want to change attitudes and the way we imagine our future. I want to influence policy so that we invest in tomorrow. But most of all, I want to rebuild an America that... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

The art of thinking creatively

Art Society. The works, all by “very young, emerging artists,” can be viewed online, but the collection program is intended to be seen in person in order to help students think more imaginatively in their lives and their studies.... View Details

Portrait Project

Aduke Thelwell

of me. So now as I try to envision who I'll be in fifty years, I hope my current vision is dead wrong. Instead, I want to become a woman with experiences I can't imagine today. That woman will be a thinker who has changed her opinions... 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

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Research Available on World Wide Web

Pondering a business problem or management issue? Imagine with a computer keystroke or two being able to find synopses of Harvard Business School research on hundreds of topics. Would you like to know more, for example, about the... View Details

25 Jun 2025
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Hitting A High Note

As the Atlanta Opera's general and artistic director, Tomer Zvulun has big ambitions for the organization, imagining a “new model of performing arts." Photo and video credit: Melissa Golden Tomer Zvulun video Tomer Zvulun discusses the Atlanta Opera's contributions to... View Details

Keywords: April White

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