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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

By: Richard L. Nolan

This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention
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  • 01 Apr 2009
  • News

New Book Looks at the Life of a CIO

  • 26 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

Want to be different? Change your world, not your tactics. As HBS professor Youngme Moon argues in Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, competition too often breeds conformity. Yet there is plenty of space for adventurous companies... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • October 2008 (Revised February 2014)
  • Case

The Northwest Passage

By: Herman B. Leonard and Peter Brannen
Following dozens of failed expeditions to "discover" the NW passage, a Norwegian adventurer employs a new approach that emphasizes rigorous preparation, a lighter, quicker style, and a willingness to adapt to the inhospitable Arctic environment and its people. The case... View Details
Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Style; Adaptation; Canada
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  • 20 Mar 2017
  • News

Why Trump’s Experiments With Fascism Will Fail

  • 25 Oct 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

Keywords: by Richard L. Nolan; Education
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

2015 The $13 Trillion Question: How America Manages Its Debt The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50179 2015 The $13 Trillion... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Video

Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey in Conversation: Build the Life You Want

  • 2012
  • Chapter

Social Entrepreneurs, Socialization Processes, and Social Change: The Case of Sekem

By: Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair and Julie Battilana
How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Psychology; Social Issues; Organizations; Business and Community Relations
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  • July 2006
  • Background Note

Out of Frame: The Coming Digital Disruption of Hollywood

By: Stephen P. Bradley, Brian DeLacey and Reed Martin
The record opening of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, starring Johnny Depp, had finally provided the industry with incontrovertible proof that it was still possible to draw massive audiences to movie theaters. Grossing $136 million during its opening... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Film Entertainment; Revenue; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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    Richard L. Nolan

    Professor Nolan earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Production and Operations Research in 1962, and his M.B.A and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1966, respectively. Upon graduation in 1966, he joined Boeing Commercial Airplane Company as an Information... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; information technology industry; internet
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    how to build your blueprint for a more fulfilling future, the adventure that awaits you in the process, personal stories that didn’t make it into the book, and more. Accelerating Climate Solutions—May 10, 2023 Video Recording Welcome... View Details
    • 2011
    • Book

    Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

    By: Chet Huber
    Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
    Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
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    • Web

    Skydeck - Alumni

    Surviving the Iditarod Adventurer Sunny Stroeer (MBA 2011) is always hunting for her limit. Would she find it while skiing 1,000 miles through the Alaskan wilderness? How to Have Effective Conversations Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist... View Details
    • 01 Jan 2007
    • News

    Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

    back roads of destinations such as Tasmania, Baja Mexico, or South Africa on adventure motorcycles. "The novelist Milan Kundera said that when you're riding a motorcycle, there's no past or future, there's only the present," Zobel... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

    employees. Nikos Mourkogiannis cited four types of purpose that provide “sources of energy” for an organization: Heroism: The desire to change the world and society. Discovery: The challenge of adventure and innovation characterized by... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Portrait Project

    Ryan Yu

    out reams of white paper, my eight-year-old self was convinced that anything could happen. Then, as I grew up, the adventure faded away. I majored in business, wore a suit, and convinced myself that the only things I could build were... View Details
    • 06 Sep 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

    personal growth—often depends on exactly that: the ability to challenge assumptions, reshape the environment, and play by a different set of rules your own. Like WMMC, this book tells the story of mice who live in a maze. In this case, the main characters are three... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    As a young assistant professor at Harvard Business School in 1946, Christensen embarked upon the first of what he described as “the two great adventures of my career.” Along with several colleagues, he played a major role in developing... View Details
    • 09 Nov 2016
    • Op-Ed

    6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

    marketers, says HBS professor John Quelch. Credit: Gage Skidmore Show the past as prologue. Offering consumers the adventure of voting for an uncertain future never works with the majority, especially if your brand is new to the game.... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch