Creative Problem-solving - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

Intractable Problems as well as a first-time HBS course, Managing and Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India. Will you be incorporating this breakthrough in them? Khanna: Both the courses are about creativity and... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

04 Jan 2022
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Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

ability to collect and analyze more data more quickly, decision-making and problem-solving have become increasingly complex. Many people look to technology to solve modern problems, but the more technology advances, the more human... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 May 2010
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What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

disciplines most often found in business schools. We have proposed that innovation in organizations be conceived of as a process of co-design: creative abrasion, creative agility, and integrated problem... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

09 Jul 2012
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The Unconscious Executive

conducted by [Mareike] Wieth and [Rose] Zacks has shown people are very good at making intuitive decisions at times when they are not at their best according to their circadian clock. In this research participants showed greater insight and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2014
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Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

flash of creative insight, an Aha! moment in the mind of a genius. People apparently prefer to believe in the rugged individualism of discovery, perhaps because they rarely get to see the sausage-making process behind every breakthrough... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

20 Nov 2006
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Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

and so forth. I have conducted a study about motivations in open source communities. People talked about feeling part of a community and being intellectually challenged. In fact, the strongest correlate between time spent on a project and other factors was how a person... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Aug 2008
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Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

and research, it can best contribute to what will be a major new force in the American economy. For several decades, the view from the HBS campus across Western Avenue has been decidedly "old economy." But now, creative... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

regard to their preferences. Assignment was done in a manner where sorted and unsorted groups had identical distributions of raw problem-solving ability. We find a remarkably large effect of institutional preference-based sorting on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Dec 2004
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How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

self-scrutiny to continuously improve, respect, and cooperation. Positive behaviors lead to good problem-solving based on information and facts, teamwork and speed, and creativity and courage; in turn, good... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/Land%20Reform.pdf August 2013 Psychological Science Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity By: Gino, F., and S. Wiltermuth Abstract—We propose that dishonest and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2015
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How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

understanding others' needs and creatively forging compromises. In Schwartz terminology, they tend to be "satisficers" who are generally content with the outcome of a negotiation that meets basic criteria, even if it leaves money on the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

organizational boundaries and organizational designs. We suggest that when critical tasks can be modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation... View Details