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  • 15 Nov 2013
  • News

Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 13 Oct 2022
  • Other Presentation

4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation

By: Amy Bernstein, Rita McGrath, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Derek van Bever
A roundtable conversation takes stock of Clayton Christensen’s influential theory. This first in a series of roundtable conversations assessing the origins and impact of four breakthrough ideas.

In the 1980s, Clayton Christensen cofounded a startup that... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation
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Generative AI - Alumni

hiring manager. Read more Of course, ChatGPT won’t replace the cover letter and resume writing process entirely. You should still spend time editing the text outputs for accuracy and to make sure your voice is present. Think of GPT as a way to save time, find new... View Details
  • Web

Business of Ideas - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Business of Ideas Course Number 1161 Professor Caroline Elkins Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits Course Overview: Today, ideas matter more than ever. Idea View Details
  • 06 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking
  • 02 Apr 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

go; they want to do." How It Works New skills, while important, are only a small part of what new general managers must possess. GMP's greater goal is to challenge them with new perspectives and ideas... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2022
  • Other Presentation

4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

By: Adi Ignatius, Lynn Paine, Mihir Desai and Carola Frydman
A roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today.

The idea that maximizing shareholder value takes legal and practical precedence above all else first came to prominence in the 1970s. The... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Value Maximization; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 30 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

user contributions spiked, generating 27 percent more repos compared with those that weren’t eligible for sponsorship. Once the beta period ended, sponsorable users contributed 30 percent more repos than non-sponsorable users. But once a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • 30 Mar 2023
  • Video

Generating Breakthrough Therapies: Risk and Reward

  • 24 Feb 2014
  • News

A Capital Idea for Small Business

managements, and form groups around common interests." "I like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital," says McGee. "This project got its start back in 2011. I had been... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Wade Test: Generative AI and CEO Communication

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Bart S. Vanneste and Amirhossein Zohrehvand
Can generative artificial intelligence (AI) transform the role of the CEO by effectively automating CEO communication? This study investigates whether AI can mimic a human CEO and whether employees’ perception of the communication’s source matter. In a field... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; AI and Machine Learning; Perception; Communication
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  • Jul 15 2015
  • Testimonial

Putting More Ideas on the Table

  • Research Summary

4. Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success

Joint work with Lee Fleming (Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School) and David Chen (Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Business School and Harvard School of... View Details
  • February 2008
  • Supplement

Avaya (C): Implementing Demand Generation in Brazil

Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Relationships; Sales
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  • 15 Oct 2014
  • News

The Next Generation of Social Networks

  • Blog

When Generations Learn Together

Venture Capital, and we had a great experience. We reviewed cases and learned from our assigned teams, but also talked between and after classes to share ideas with each other. I thought the material might be duplicative of what my day... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

Professor Geoffrey Jones, a passionate advocate of the power of history to inform the next generation of business leaders, has answered this challenge with the Creating Emerging Markets project. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
  • Dec 01 2016
  • Testimonial

Benefitting From a Rich Exchange of Ideas

  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea

closed, the conversation continued in the main Zoom room, and then folks exchanged phone numbers with one another to keep chatting. I also feared that participants might not generate ideas. While we focus five weeks on hands-on techniques... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

Keywords: by David Moss; Banking