fiction writing - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

When science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dreamed of the metaverse—a term he coined in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—he envisioned a long city street that’s “always garish and brilliant, like Las Vegas freed from constraints of physics and... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Huang I like to switch up what I’m reading—so I often alternate between fiction and non-fiction, different time periods and settings, and books that I’m reading for the first time read versus books that I’ve re-read dozens of times. I... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. "Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat," sings Georges Seurat in the musical Sunday in the Park with George, a View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

entitled We Shall Not Surrender this Television Station. As Tom Wolfe says, who needs fiction with reality like this! Writing and teaching a case with material like this is a real pleasure. Q: Can you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

still a junior faculty member, focused on making tenure and writing a second book. That’s the year she got a call from the law firm Leigh Day, which was looking to sue the British government for reparations on behalf of the Kikuyu... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

Books. Before Penguin was founded by Allen Lane in 1935, serious literature—"good books"—was expensive and bound in hardcover; only lurid fiction was sold in paperback. "The good books were out of reach of all but the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along with the creation of associated fictional case characters... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

customer. All the aspects of the profession that had to do with promoting change and overcoming resistance made the figure of the salesperson popular to fiction writers—and most of the characterizations have been negative, from jokes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

guess one could have accused me of being opportunistic in writing this book, but the fact is the book was finished last year and is only now getting published. I actually wrote my dissertation in 1998 on this topic. The common thread that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along with the creation of associated View Details