Learning By Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2021
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African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

the way you think about solving a problem. Anything else you would like to add? I am still improving my technical skills (and learning some new ones) as I also pursue a joint Master’s degree in Engineering... View Details

26 Jun 2013
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How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

Bob Reiss Photo courtesy of Bob Reiss It was 1983, and Bob Reiss (MBA 1956) was looking for a new game to play. A Brooklyn native and former basketball star at Columbia University who had become a successful entrepreneur in the toy-and-game industry, Reiss was... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Frequently Asked Questions - Health Care

Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions What is the HBS Health Care Initiative? The HBS Health Care Initiative (HCI) was launched in 2005 to impact managerial practice and the pace of innovation in health care. The HCI does this View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense

telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense industry with high barriers to entry. “I View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

available on the HBSGrid by default, we now offer Lmod software modules to selectively expose, or make available, an application and all its supporting binaries, while also ensuring that incompatible programs are not also in the mix. To... View Details

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Diversity on Boards - Alumni

offerings, leveraging HBS resources and access; Activating the HBS network for board opportunities that can benefit the HBS alumni community. By leveraging the global HBS network and strategic external relationships, the Board Diversity... View Details

05 Jun 2019
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Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

completed an Independent Project under the guidance of a professor. In recent years, the beauty industry has fundamentally changed – incumbents are being disrupted by direct-to-consumer brands, customer data is being used to deliver a... View Details

2022
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Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas

By: Goran Calic, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis and Sébastien Hélie

While knowledge management researchers acknowledge that individuals transition from generation to implementation of ideas, these transitions are not fully understood. The current article focuses on idea elaboration – defined as the transition of an idea from an... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Management; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Innovation and Invention; Learning

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20 Apr 2015
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India Conference 2015

The India conference is an annual event organized by Harvard students. The conference has in the past focused on a plethora of issues related to India. Though the structure of the conference has remained constant in the past, the content... View Details

28 Jan 2016
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Why Get an MBA?

element of an MBA is whether you learn true, hard skills. How can you teach accounting and finance through the case method? A mentor of mine put it best when he said “HBS will teach you how to think about... View Details

26 Jan 2024
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Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

Officer at 3Degrees Climate Rising episode: How Harvard is Going Fossil Fuel Free “Rather than saying, I want to get into climate change and therefore, what should I do? I would think of it the other way around, which is, What really... View Details

16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit

people unlock their potential. At the time, for me, the key to this was using the media to educate and inform.” As much as Ayala appreciates the technical skills he learned at HBS, he thinks that the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

12 May 2021
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The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

I’m also very impressed by Sophie’s energy and passion toward biotech innovations, and her dedication to her own biotech startup. I definitely look forward to learning more from her experience of identifying... View Details

21 May 2015
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3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

at HBS. Many students, myself included, aren’t able to pay for business school out of their savings and instead utilize a combination of financial aid, scholarships, and loans to get themselves through the program. Here is an overview of what I View Details

26 Oct 2018
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Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

that HBS would open for me to pursue my interests post-graduation – but there’s no doubt that it has and I’m excited for what’s next. While in some ways it feels like sprinting into the unknown, what’s life without a great sweat? Learn... View Details

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Projects - Business History

projects are done in collaboration with Special Collections at Baker Library. Creating Emerging Markets Creating Emerging Markets explores the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. At its core are over 150 interviews... View Details

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Ethan Li

operating." And it opened up new questions for Ethan. "I realized there may be something limited about my skills and the way I think about things," he says. "I was developing breadth, but I wanted depth, too. I thought... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Manufacturing/Energy

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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus , you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your View Details

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