Creative Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

and free cash flow. The emphasis on cash helps explain how firms have changed their supply chains and how working capital has become a significant financial benefit to major firms ranging from Apple to Walmart. Similarly, emphasizing cash... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Portrait Project

Amy Long

I was supposed to be a writer. As a child, I treasured no sisterhood of dolls. I yearned for no film stars. Team sports, I simply ignored. Instead, I recall only my fingers working feverishly over my grandfather's typewriter, a roar in my... View Details

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

may reveal which factors matter most. “I think it’s great that we’re being more creative about solutions to female advancement, and there might be a lot of good things going on in terms of sponsorship,” Coffman says. “Now we just need to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Profile

Kiran Gandhi

don’t plan on working for a bank or for Ideo after school, but I want to apply the design skills I learn to the music industry in the long term. What might people find surprising about you? That I was a math major in college. I guess... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

department. If every intern would receive an offer, 18 percent chose to work only with men. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/SEi2B3ULIyrEzqL6Rxbz][/div] The researchers invited 278 Black participants to consider the same scenario but... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

“Larger companies are rarely seen as fountains of innovation,” says Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano. Yet scale, if properly exploited, can still be an engine for transformation. In his new book Creative Construction: The DNA... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

As the COVID-19 virus pandemic began to sweep across the world, Doug McMillon and his team at Walmart watched in horror. Suddenly, they realized, tomorrow would be nothing like “business as usual” and everything in the company’s marketing plan, from retail execution to... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

Transparency Trap By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

effect on any of these outcomes, we find that the system had a significantly positive effect on the quality of creative work when it was more frequently accessed. It also had a positive effect on the quality... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Book: http://store.elsevier.com/Handbook-of-Safeguarding-Global-Financial-Stability/isbn-9780123978752/ Working PapersLeading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick's Conception of Leadership... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Simone Marinesi. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Recipient of the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science in 2024. 2023 Prithwiraj Choudhury : Selected for the 2023 Forbes Future of Work 50 list. Amy C. Edmondson :... View Details

19 Jan 2022
Blog Post

From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

Strategy & Planning at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and resides in New York City. Tell us about your background before HBS. How did you choose a career in retail? I’ve always been drawn to the arts and creative environments, so... View Details

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

whiteboards and sticky notes, to interview customers, and design prototypes. Utilizing the process that Jake was teaching us, we were able to do all these things in a guided and efficient way that led each of our teams to make a lot of progress in only a week. My team... View Details

Web

Career Support - Business & Environment

industry in which environmental challenges are front-and-center, such as energy, agriculture, or real estate. Work in finance, incorporating environment, social, and governance (ESG) factors. Engage in entrepreneurial ventures that... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program

work for Universal Music Group’s internal creative solutions team as a Strategic Partnerships Representative and aspire to pursue a Master of Business Administration within the next few years with the... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in McKinsey’s retail sector before... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Weitz No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-125.pdf PublicationsMulti-Rater Assessment of Individual Creative Contributions to Team Projects in Organizations Author:Teresa M.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication... View Details