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  • 06 Apr 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

How do once-thriving centers of innovation slow down, falter, and in some cases all but grind to a halt? That's a question that fascinates HBS professor Donald N. Sull. In a new working paper describing his in-depth research, Sull focused on the travails of one former... View Details
Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • May 1986
  • Supplement

Gillette Co.: Dry Idea Advertising (B), Video Introduction

Provides an overview of the two-part video: 1) bake-off participant interviews with managers from Gillette and its advertising agency for Dry Idea, and 2) creative presentations by the two bake-off competitors. View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 08 Feb 2019
  • Video

Why do innovation initiatives fail?

  • October 2008 (Revised November 2008)
  • Case

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Examines how successful companies can “jump to the next S-curve” through an analogy to the life's work of Miles Davis, especially his paradigm-shattering Kind of Blue album in 1959. Students consider how and why Davis, who had already proven he was tops in his field,... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Creativity; Music Entertainment; Music Industry
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  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Jared Curhan, MIT Sloan School of Management

    James W. Riley

    James Riley is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Riley is an economic sociologist. He conducts ethnographic research to... View Details

    • May 2011
    • Article

    The Power of Small Wins

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
    What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an analysis of knowledge workers' diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Behavior; Happiness; Perception; Trust; Time Management; Resource Allocation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles
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    • Research Summary

    Research Questions

    By: Anita Elberse

    One overarching question drives my research: What are effective marketing strategies for managers in creative industries?

    I focus on three sub-questions:

    1. How can managers in creative industries effectively manage products and product... View Details
    • 10 Sep 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

    Robertson, of the acclaimed ensemble Medici String Quartet. It seemed a perfect opportunity to explore the process of creative collaboration, a central theme not just in music but in knowledge-intensive businesses. The result is... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
    • 12 Mar 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    How to Bring Good Ideas to Life: The Paul English Story

    Keywords: Re: Frances X. Frei
    • 22 Jan 2025
    • Blog Post

    Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

    Going to business school gave me the chance to rebrand myself, explore new opportunities, and figure out what truly inspired me. It was there that I discovered a passion for marketing, a creative outlet I didn’t even know I needed. Before... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 04 Jan 2011
    • News

    Tech MNCs lend a helping hand, help solve social problems

    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Do Network Dynamics Undermine Idea-based Network Advantages? Experimental Results from an Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

    By: Rembrand Koning
    Do networks plentiful in ideas provide early stage startups with performance advantages? On the one hand, network positions that provide access to a multitude of ideas are thought to increase team performance. On the other hand, research on network formation argues... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Performance; Business Startups; Business Strategy
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    • 29 Apr 2012
    • News

    Keeping a Business Innovative

    • 1990
    • Article

    Social Influences on Creativity: Evaluation, Coaction, and Surveillance

    By: T. M. Amabile, P. Goldfarb and S. C. Brackfield
    Two experiments examined the effects of evaluation expectation and the presence of others on creativity. In both experiments, some subjects expected that their work would be evaluated by experts, and others expected no evaluation. Evaluation expectation was crossed, in... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Social Psychology; Situation or Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation
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    • 18 Jul 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

    concerns to the company’s management, including in regard to corporate culture and the ethical behavior of Zantech’s competition, is provided. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52849 In Pursuit of Everyday View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2021
    • Article

    Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: Measurement and Growth Issues in the Digital Era

    By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
    The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details
    Keywords: Industry Evolution; Advertising; Spending; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Media; Advertising Industry; United States
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    • 04 Jan 2019
    • News

    'Always question the normal course of events'

    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    By: John A. Deighton
    I teach about the ecosystem of big data, the role of data in advertising and creative industries, and customer management and personal privacy in an era of individual addressability. View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Database Marketing; Social Media; Data Analytics; Information; Advertising; Marketing; Media; Technology; Consumer Products Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Publishing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry