Idea Generation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

professional ties to HBS classmates continue to be strong. In addition, it was during business school that he and some friends first came up with the idea for what would become Rakuten. “Before HBS, I never would have considered being an... 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

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

team at Harvard Business Press, led by the talented Kathleen Carr, had been generating a host of innovative ideas that naturally aligned with this book's innovative format—the use of artistic illustrations... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

28 Sep 2023
News

Screen Time

times to accommodate people in several time zones.” MBA 1982 Section B MBA 1982 Section B Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982), also on the committee, says the content of the virtual meetings ranges widely, with ideas for discussion topics View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

Classmates: The idea for my startup Getaway formed just before arriving on HBS’ campus. The ninety people in my section and the nine hundred in my class have left their own lasting mark on the company. Section-mates View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

their low wages will effectively prevent Asian workers from being able to purchase many of the manufactured goods they are creating. Since their own internal demand and consumption will be insufficient to generate revenues to stimulate... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

in the alarm clock market since the 1950s, when General Electric-Telechron started selling clocks with snooze buttons. "For some reason, we had relegated the alarm clock to be a low-involvement, low-cost item with no emotional... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

28 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

study was written by HBS professors Dennis Campbell and Srikant Datar, with Tatiana Sandino (HBS DBA '04) of USC's Marshall School of Business. "Franchising is a very observable, real choice that organizations make." -Dennis Campbell "The basic View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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

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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Demonstration Policy | About

designate a moderator in consultation with the event's host. A moderator will generally be a member of the faculty or senior staff of HBS or Harvard. The moderator's aim is to act as a neutral arbiter and to ensure that speakers take open... View Details

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

macroeconomics: output, money, and expectations. Can you talk generally why these are important to understand? A: When you think about these three things, output should be in big letters, and the other ones in smaller letters. Output is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

corporate strategies and business execution, as well as what CEOs and boards can learn from successful and unsuccessful activist interventions. Using a mix of cases, guest lectures, and discussions with activist investors and corporate executives, the course will bring... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

strategy. It argues that the focus of debate now needs to be on the actual policies that can increase competitiveness rather than exports per se. 2. Policies to improve export competitiveness: Critical issues The notion that exports and trade more View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

behavior bubbles below the radar An employee may not come forward right away to expose wrongdoing at a corporation for many reasons. In the absence of directly observing egregious behavior by a particular individual, an employee may not think that a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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Judges - Alumni

with a strong focus on beauty and personal care, health and wellness, e-commerce, and creators. She founded CXT Investments in 2016 to support purpose-driven entrepreneurs building the next generation of great consumer companies,... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Yuan Zou Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management) Robert Simons Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details

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

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

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