Product Creativity - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

as its distinctive market offering is a meaningful advantage. —Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) In a startup business or new business unit, creative thinking in finance can be a huge advantage. Consider reaching out to large clients and asking them... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

resources." Michael P. Cassidy (MBA '91), general manager of the Computer Telephony Product Group at Artisoft, Inc., a maker of tools that connect phones to computers, took these lessons to heart when he created his own company, Stylus... View Details

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Productivity Gains from Foreign Direct Investment: Macro and Micro Approaches By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—This paper discussed the importance of an “integrated approach” to the study of the effects of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

large private firms in the services sector. Rates of return also have remained stable over time and show low dispersion across sectors and across ownership groups within sectors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-030.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

accelerate this transition, as professor and program chair Benjamin C. Esty explains. What's to Be Done About Performance Reviews? What can we do to make performance reviews more productive and less distasteful? Should their objectives be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

type of ketchup or laundry detergent they prefer, a ZMET interview at the Mind of the Market lab of HBS offers a far more creative approach. Typically, the ZMET interview combines elements of neuroscience, art, linguistics and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

forward to today. The Rock has become a household name as both a wrestling legend and a global movie star. Perhaps less well known is that Johnson and his business partner, Dany Garcia, have quickly gained ground in Hollywood as producers, too. Their View Details

Keywords: Re: Anita Elberse; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation

03 May 2013
News

Looking Through Glass, Historically

creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American... View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

mention in their next blog post about a topic you’ve been discussing, or perhaps even a guest blog spot. Be creative about how your investors can help shine a light on your brand, product, and team. Product... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

Profile

Michelle Lee

differentiate learning for their students, showed Michelle "how a company builds from the ground up. I learned what I really love is the early stages of a company where you're figuring out the unknown, testing out different strategies, and View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Retail/Hospitality

01 Apr 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Stevenson, conference chair and chair of the School's Entrepreneurial Management unit, will describe the key insights HBS has developed in fifty years of teaching entrepreneurship; Professor Teresa M. Amabile will report on her findings from an ongoing study of the... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new biography, View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2018
News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, they suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the family-owned company grew over the decades, moving from wooden toys to plastic "bricks," the building blocks of its construction sets. The products are designed around play themes such... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library

companies of the twentieth century. Founded in 1937 under the visionary leadership of Edwin H. Land, Polaroid was celebrated for its groundbreaking product development. An inspiring leader, Land pioneered a management approach that... View Details

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

maximize how much people learn from each other; we want to maximize transparency,” adds Lazer. “I don’t want there to be zero communication, but I do think that transparency and communication do have downsides, especially for certain kinds of problems; problems where... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

dearly for the intangible aspects of the product, which the firm works very hard to keep integrated with the physical product. Deals with a range of issues confronting creative economy companies, such as how to produce View Details