Idea Generation - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Sep 2023
News

Screen Time

iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

of health problems, including depression and social anxiety, which can impact wellbeing and productivity at work. In fact, in a 2017 Harvard Business Review article, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that “a loneliness epidemic”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

candidates and asked them to rank their top three choices. Some of these sets employed standard algorithms, which generally included only three women who ranked near the bottom of the list; others used fair-ranking algorithms, which... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

the loss of jobs in manufacturing hadn't been offset by new tradable jobs involved in the creation of ideas (for example, consulting and the development of new information technologies, nearly all service sector jobs). Spence argues in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

entrepreneur and Stanford/UC Berkeley lecturer Steve Blank. The "lean" in lean startup has its roots in the Toyota Production System; hence, the lean startup methodology is all about avoiding waste, in terms of both time and money. For starters, it nixes the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

01 Dec 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

participants in the BFFS 2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey ranked lax regulatory oversight 12th out of 19. Short-term and Long-term Response to the Financial Crisis Participants were generally supportive of both the government's... View Details

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

suggests that it is in fact probably the only way to remain competitive in the long run. It is not an easy matter. Reputations take generations to build and can be hugely damaged by a single incident. Silverthorne: What new View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2022
Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

enough to join Ford as a Machine Learning Researcher. I wrote software, generated intellectual property, and talked about autonomous vehicles in international industry conferences. In late 2018, I realized that commercially launching... View Details

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

purchases. This approach would not only insure more people, but could lead to more innovative, less costly approaches to generating medical breakthroughs, the team says. Chandra, who is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

01 Dec 2019
News

Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

Nunnelly and Dupré gift will dramatically increase innovation and the commercialization of new technologies and make it possible to efficiently take transformative ideas to the marketplace. Specifically, it will enable Harvard to attract... View Details

Fast Answer

Capital IQ: Introduction, Help, Etc.

directors, industry sectors, and transactions on a global basis. A wide range of timesaving tools for building comps, charts, models, company reports, buyer/investor lists, etc. Idea Generation Screen across... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

workers; it’s the buzz around the program and the quality-of-life perks it generates. Because Tulsa is generally affordable, workers have more disposable income to pour back into the economy. And without having to commute to work, people... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

in there who is an arrogant, ethnocentric person. It is important to understand country differences as strengths, not as impediments to your operation. The real battle now is shifting to how you use the world as a source of ideas and... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

every medical student is now required to master. The medical school curriculum proceeds from the premise that in order to diagnose and treat disease, the would-be physician must have a firm grounding in what science (or, perhaps more accurately, what is View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

fulfillment that uses centralized inventory management. We ask whether, and if so, how, showrooms benefit the two most basic retail objectives: demand generation and operational efficiency. Using quasi-experimental data on showroom... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Roche : Recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Organization Science . Raffaella Sadun : Included in the 2023 Thinkers50 Radar list—a list of 30 "up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas we predict will make an important impact on... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

School clubs he had joined, he decided to apply. “It was just curiosity,” Goble says. The program, now known as Nucleate, which is dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders, hosted what Goble remembers as a kind of... View Details

Keywords: April White

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

to share ideas and interests where you quickly find people to connect and debate with inside and outside of the classroom. How do you think the section set up impacts the academic environment at HBS?Philipp: The group of 90 is extremely... View Details

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

designers judged the creativity of the ideas, they determined that the least creative ones came from participants who had called to mind acquaintances from different cultural backgrounds with disharmonious relationships. [On average, those who recalled that... View Details