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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in the toy View Details
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Jeremy Andrus
chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel developer for a Marriott franchisee. Before HBS, I was a management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at... View Details
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Hussain, who have all influenced her work. Ganavya holds graduate degrees in performance (Berklee College of Music), and ethnomusicology (UCLA). She is currently doing her PhD (Harvard), studying Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
concludes, leaders must find ways to rekindle its artistic and creative forces while also restoring a physical-spiritual balance in the people’s lives. If not, “Islamic civilization will . . . suffer the fate of previous world... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
difference — places like the Amazon, the Congo, and the coral reefs of Indonesia. And we created integrated teams for each place both to work locally and to deliver global results with related industries and policies. The effect has been... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
How HBS Changed My Life
friendships I made at HBS. And truly, it was a beautiful thing to experience. I had my misconceptions about HBS before I applied. In fact, I almost didn’t apply. Today, I am forever grateful for the class visit I made to Professor Anita Elberse’s Strategic Marketing in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
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Minal Mehta
Amazon, looking to reconnect with my creative side and do something entrepreneurial. Enter my cofounders, Shahil Patel and Mayuri Bhandari. In Boston, Shahil, a first-year MBA at MIT, was fresh off of the semifinals of America's Got... View Details
- June 1995
- Teaching Note
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive TN
By: Richard E. Walton
Teaching Note for (9-392-025). View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Hawkins wondered how to guide his company into this new area of social gaming without losing any of the tremendous creative momentum the team had built over the previous years. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
app’s success has striking implications for a number of industries. Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School and spent 28 years in industry at IBM,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
Airbnb wasn't an option" Competition between traditional hotels and Airbnb is intensifying. Last Friday, Airbnb announced it is expanding its "experiences" offerings to an additional 1,000 cities. Meanwhile, the lodging View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
activities on the job that are not perceived as work while "working" in ways that are non-productive. In short, we're not thinking creatively enough about work. Those are themes that recur in the comments to this month's column.... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
in the transition to a digital world is the willingness to forego some revenues in print. Experiments require not only creativity and boldness but an ability to self-cannibalize. This is perhaps the biggest roadblock to digital... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
across industries and directly managed hundreds of employees who have grown their careers under her leadership. As part of her role, Fitzpatrick also regularly provides support to recruiting partners as they seek to recruit, hire, and... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small companies to compete... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
types of work Cash rewards are best suited as a motivator for work that is measured quantitatively, Whillans says. Many studies of the service and sales industries show that cash rewards lead to increased sales and improved customer... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
against type: a double major in math and economics at Yale, a stint at McKinsey, and a joint degree in business and law from Harvard—all admirable accomplishments, but none a prerequisite for screenwriting. Singer acted and sang his way through high school and college... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
moment,” points of stickiness, drop off, etc. They also won’t have the biases you likely bring to the table and can look at the numbers objectively. Investors can be helpful with developing your company and product story, as well as speak with folks in the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin