Imagination - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

knowledge of consumer behavior to create killer applications in the m-commerce arena. Imagine a brand well positioned to satisfy the life intentions of the youth market: Let's call it "Soda X." What if Soda X built a... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

11 Jun 2015
News

A personal mission to serve veterans

Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009) served as assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs at the US Department of Veterans Affairs in 2014-15, where she helped to correct mismanagement problems that plagued the agency. “I can’t View Details

Profile

Joe Stenger

two fighter aircraft flew low and fast directly over me. To this day, I remember the rumbling I felt in my chest as they turned on their afterburners. As they tore through the sky, I imagined the sensation of piloting such a machine, and... View Details

15 May 2015
Blog Post

2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

someone with an interest in the intersection of business and policy, particularly as it relates to generating economic development in the south, I soon began to find the opportunities and resources at HBS to be some of the best training View Details

22 Nov 2011
News

A Storybook Beginning

the marketing visionary who helped Amazon.com expand its horizons beyond books, Risher is now putting his imagination to work on finding better ways to bring books to children worldwide. As cofounder of the nonprofit Worldreader, the... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Portrait Project

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

Alumni WDYDWYD

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

Portrait Project

Danielle Slutzky

She kept a mini fridge in her bedroom stocked with my favorite chocolate, Pesek Zman, the Israeli version of the Kit Kat bar. My grandmother led me to her fridge when I visited each June. By age seven, I’d imagine the red and yellow... View Details

Portrait Project

Edrienne Brandon

hold the most honorable leadership position imaginable – parent – and will define my legacy by the kind of citizens, friends, and thinkers Wesley's and my children become. I will be that friend that is there when I am needed as much as... View Details

07 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - COP27 and the Climate Crisis

down annually [with] multiplying effects. Over the last few years, we've had multiple floods every year. So can you imagine the link with poverty [and] migration?” Learn more by downloading this video clip detailing the impact of climate... View Details

04 Feb 2022
News

Hour by Hour

$1,000 per permanent hire by bypassing recruitment, background checks, and training. It has also helped hourly employees pick up extra work. “You can imagine that if you’re a store manager, you want somebody who’s familiar with your... View Details

Portrait Project

Josh Solera

didn't know this man particularly well, but I like to imagine how much he and his wife enjoyed their soup. His faith in me pushed me to work harder, and to dream bigger. I want to inspire others to do the same, even if it costs me a few... View Details

Web

Change Your Unix Command Prompt - Research Computing Services

bash tell me what the current directory is. Execute the following commands at your Unix prompt: export PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' echo "export PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' " >> ~/.bashrc After this your login prompt will appear as [jharvard@researchgrid currentdir] $ where currentdir... View Details

Student-Faculty-Profile

Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton

and trash bins. People who use these bins also feel happier compared to those who don't, and they feel closer to the people they imagine being recipients of their unwanted items. The collaborative process Grant: When coming to HBS, I... View Details

Profile

Hann Yew

the sciences." By her junior year, Hann had come to two realizations. "Science wasn't as glorious as I had imagined it to be," she says. "Your success is not always commensurate with the effort you put into it."... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Healthcare/Biotech

01 Sep 2016
News

Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck

would you do if Ford said, “Boy, we could take the car as is, but the cockpit would be very different if we conceive of it as a job.” Imagine the differentiation that it would bring to Ford. It is not just a compact anymore. + ONLINE... View Details

30 Mar 2016
News

Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

announced in September 2014. “This Campaign is largely about tapping into our collective imagination to try to envision the future—and to give our institution the resources it will require to meet the challenges this future will bring,”... View Details

05 May 2015
News

Alumni in London Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

September 2014. “This Campaign is largely about tapping into our collective imagination to try to envision the future—and to give our institution the resources it will require to meet the challenges this future will bring,” said Dean... View Details

24 Feb 2015
News

Florida Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

will significantly increase engagement with and among alumni well in to the future. The HBS goal is part of Harvard University’s $6.5 billion campaign announced last September. “This Campaign is largely about tapping into our collective View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

entrepreneurs to places with unmet needs, where their imaginations can be stimulated to find new solutions—for example, the cloth incubators for premature babies who lack hospital access, developed by Embrace in San Francisco, or Khan... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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