Imagination - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk

need to regularly refresh my understanding of emerging technologies and new ideas to keep pace with changes in my field. I imagine many of you feel the same way. As we look at the programs HBS offers for our graduates—MBA and Executive... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas; HBX; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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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

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Jason Cho | MBA

program, I aspire to advance my vision of imagining reckless miracles and uncovering the countless opportunities it will bring. Tech areas of interest: AI in Biology, Biotechnology, Brain-Computer Interface, Genetic Engineering, Medical... View Details

14 May 2012
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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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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

time, Americans had become visually literate consumers of commercial messages. “Magazine ads took the place of trade cards within the production of advertising, as well as within the imaginations of a generation of readers primed to... View Details

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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

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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
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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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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

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Raja Bobbili

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my view, the case method is the be-all and end-all of business education – I couldn’t imagine a better way to learn business than through the dynamic process of discussing and debating... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

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Aaron Chadbourne

resources to embrace life's toughest challenges, to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, and to measure impact one person at a time. I long to build organizations, to change public policy, and to imagine new solutions that... View Details

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Joseph Blair

It’s difficult to imagine Joe Blair standing still. A triathlete, currently training for a “half-Ironman” in the summer of 2013, Joe runs self-timed marathons. In his former life as an engineer, he took a great deal of pleasure tooling... View Details

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Celia Stafford

interdisciplinary nature of the doctoral programs. What’s more, the unparalleled access to resources both within and beyond Harvard has opened a plethora of research opportunities to her. Reflecting on the path that has led her to HBS, Celia admits that hers wasn’t... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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The Giving Tree

When he established an MBA student fellowship in 1979, William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) probably didn’t imagine the head count of student beneficiaries would eventually climb to 78—a number large enough to lose track of when asked about... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Monica Gupta Adractas

each impact four friends, who each help dozens by becoming teachers, doctors... Imagine the potential for impact I will also use a simple smile - or a hearty laugh - to spread happiness everyday. After all, laughter also multiplies with... View Details

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Astghik Poladyan

imagined I would find another passion in my life as fulfilling as music. Yet leading teams and bringing people together to achieve excellence energizes and moves me now in the same way playing the piano always has. I commit to pursuing... View Details

16 Sep 2021
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Dean Datar on Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving

“It causes us to approach problems using earlier, traditional approaches. In an innovation context, however, cognitive fixedness prevents us from imagining new possibilities.” After an overview, McGinnis leads a Q-and-A about Datar’s... View Details

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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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Tom Humphrey

To discover new ideas. To imagine great things. To be an entrepreneur, write a book, start a blog, paint, and climb a really big mountain. To slay, as it were, imaginary dragons. View Details

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Susan Hamilton

Telling your coworkers that you need to miss the client meeting to handle your daughter’s case of lice is risky. "This is unfair to those of us who don’t have kids!" "Can she really handle this promotion?" Or imagine... View Details

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