Happy End Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

The slate of companies going public this year— Pinterest, Slack Technologies, and Uber, to name a few—should silence anyone who doubts the power of a bold idea. After all, one seemingly crazy brainstorm can up end an entire industry,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

understanding of why Davies failed. Q: The crisis section we are excerpting at the end of this interview is about coping with a sudden denial of service attack. It's also about Barton navigating around conflicting advice while preparing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

emergent online investing market, we construct a theory to explain how a firm becomes a cognitive referent in a nascent market and other firms' failure to do so. Successful firms conceptualize market creation as problem solving; they... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

to get a "job" done. This note details the thought process and the methodology behind a jobs-based segmentation and provides numerous examples. It highlights three levels in the architecture of a job: 1) What is the fundamental job or View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

Somehow, despite being on different continents, we made the time to deepen our connection, spending hours on FaceTime. We quickly found that there was something there, something both of us wanted to explore. Tom came to Boston for a week, which I was scared would be... View Details

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

decide what has to give" when there is a loss of staff, says Parlance Training's Parlett. "So everyone plays corporate hot potato, passing the problem down the line until someone ends up as the... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

whole, and the students won’t have to take on huge debts. But removing that burden for students ends up costing taxpayers up front, which meets resistance. Solving social problems longer term involves... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

Summing Up Can the Brilliance of the "Jerk" Be Tapped? The best business problem cases are those that divide a class into groups making two or more persuasive arguments. The questions of whether or not and how to make... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for General Motors? Or are those just headlights from an oncoming train? Among Harvard Business School faculty, it depends on whom you ask. The carmaker—home to such storied brands as Cadillac,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

Person Page

Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Capstone The CLIMB Activities and Capstone Project takes place throughout the CLIMB Program. You’ll work on tasks that allow you to collaborate with your peers and apply what you are learning in your courses as you progress through the CLIMB curriculum. At the View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

School Professor Julie Battilana. The crux of the problem is that CEOs and other leaders often get such a power trip that they lack empathy and humility, which inhibits their ability to understand and respect what their employees value.... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Web

Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

to your organization's strategy. Highlights Performing the X-Test Analyzing Job Design Problems Span of Support Show Hide Details Concepts Designing High-Performing Jobs Understanding the Entrepreneurial Gap Identifying Spans of Influence... View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

“overfitting” a statistical model, ensuring the model hits every historical data point and thus making it overly specific and lacking room for future variables. Another problem can develop with miscalibration, failing to consider whether... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

regardless of the GDP. But if the nation's total output in future years is not sufficiently large, then all those stocks and bonds are going to end up being worth a lot less than expected. Total output is the key to how much we can... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2018
Blog Post

8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS

would face colossal failure if she did what my section-mate suggested. The professor smiles after my comment. I knew I crushed it. At the end of the case, we learn the protagonist followed exactly what I had said. My classmate next to me... View Details

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

1965 41 By 1943, Edwin Land began to turn his thoughts to the post-war production efforts of Polaroid. The corporation had significantly expanded its research and engineering division for military activities and would need to focus on a new commercial product. By the... View Details

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

"Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but [fellow nominee] Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time." Millions of viewers were turned off by his impulsive bullying, and Carter and Lady Gaga, both... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

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