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  • 25 Apr 2012
  • News

What Doesn't Motivate Creativity Can Kill It

  • Teaching Interest

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Teaching Fellow, Technology and Operations Management Core MBA course 2011, 2012 Rating: 4.6/5 n=24 (Fall, 2012) Teaching Fellow, Frances Frei's Technology and Operations Management Core MBA course 2010 Teaching Fellow, Pre-MBA Program 2009-2010 View Details
Keywords: Operations

    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • November 1998 (Revised May 1999)
    • Teaching Note

    Techniques of Creativity, The TN

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    Teaching Note for Innovation and the General Manager course. View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Managerial Roles; Innovation and Invention
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      Samuel G. Hanson

      Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
      • 31 Jan 2021
      • News

      Tips on Going Freelance During the Covid-19 Pandemic

      • Apr 11 2019
      • Interview

      Navigating Rapid Change and Uncertainty

      • Web

      Finance - Faculty & Research

      to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India By: Shawn Cole , Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management... View Details
      • January 1998 (Revised February 2006)
      • Background Note

      Creating Competitive Advantage

      By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Jan W. Rivkin
      A firm such as Schering-Plough that earns superior, long-run financial returns within its industry is said to enjoy a competitive advantage over its rivals. This note examines the logic of how firms create competitive advantage. It emphasizes two themes: First, to... View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Management; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Value Creation; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      • April 2003 (Revised December 2003)
      • Background Note

      Intervention Strategy

      Develops a framework linking the diagnosis of conflict dynamics to the design of intervention strategies. To intervene effectively, managers must determine whether they are dealing with an acute or chronic conflict. Using this analysis as a foundation, they can define... View Details
      Keywords: Conflict Management; Managerial Roles
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      • January 2001
      • Case

      World Bank and Knowledge Management, The: The Case of the Urban Services Thematic Group

      By: William E. Fulmer and W. Earl Sasser
      The World Bank has implemented a knowledge management initiative. One of its communities of practice is to take the lead in a $50 billion commitment to address urban slums. The community of practice is struggling with its mission and how knowledge management can help. View Details
      Keywords: Urban Development; Knowledge Management; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry
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      • August 2011 (Revised October 2015)
      • Case

      Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama

      By: William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty
      Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant investment in the company. The venture capital firm was confident that it and the current... View Details
      Keywords: China; Legal Aspects Of Business; Corruption; Risk; Corporate Governance; Crime and Corruption; Power and Influence; Risk Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Venture Capital; Ethics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Values and Beliefs; Private Equity; China
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      • 09 May 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

      significant R&D operations. “We can use the same words as scientists to describe what they do—develop plans, think creatively and prospectively, and manage their priorities in certain ways,” Duede says. “And these are the kinds of... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • Article

      Organizational Beliefs and Managerial Vision

      By: Eric J. Van den Steen
      Can managers have an impact on their firm that goes beyond their direct actions and decisions? This article shows that a manager with strong beliefs about the right course of action will attract, through sorting in the labor market, employees with similar beliefs. This... View Details
      Keywords: Organizations; Goals and Objectives; Decisions; Labor; Markets; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Recruitment; Risk and Uncertainty; Values and Beliefs
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      • 14 Sep 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

      employment, and points to some surprising new developments for working moms. Despite all the upheaval, the changes aren’t all bad. “Children got to see how their moms and dads managed to be good parents and good employees at the same... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • December 2022 (Revised January 2025)
      • Case

      Akooda: Charging Toward Operational Intelligence

      By: Christopher Stanton and Mel Martin
      The Akooda case describes the challenges confronting founder and CEO Yuval Gonczarowski (MBA ‘17) in 2022 as he attempts to boost sales. Launched in November 2020, Akooda was an AI company that mined 20 different sources of digital data, from tools like Slack, Google... View Details
      Keywords: Data Mining; Productivity; Monitoring; Data Analysis; AI and Machine Learning; Knowledge Management; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Information Industry; Boston; Israel
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      • 06 Aug 2014
      • What Do You Think?

      What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

      Summing Up Was Warren Bennis's Optimism Regarding the Future of Leadership Warranted? In a recent obituary for Warren Bennis in the New York Times, former executive and HBS Professor Bill George was quoted as writing that "I look at Peter Drucker as the father of... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
      • 01 Jan 2002
      • News

      • 11 Apr 2011
      • News

      Goldilocks knew what she was doing

      • Teaching Interest

      MBA Elective Curriculum: Investment Strategies

      By: Malcolm P. Baker

      This is a CORE course for students pursuing careers in finance. Thus, students interested in pursuing careers in mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial consulting, marketing and client service, sales and trading,... View Details