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01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

there is as much creativity and knowledge among your customers as you could ever hope to generate within your own boundaries. Accept the reality that they collectively know more than you do about whatever it is your company makes, that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc

Technology had spent most of the night collecting the necessary materials and printing some 1,500 posters commemorating the event, which had become a rallying cry for the country’s anti-Communist activists. Maj and his friends, part of... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business Publishing); collected data on aggregate trends in MBA enrollments... View Details

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

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

useful when collecting information on a problem, Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein and his fellow researchers found, but it can be detrimental in solving the problem, leading people to a consensus before all the solutions are explored.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

decreased supply of traditional food exports of wheat and corn from Russia and Ukraine will also result in rising prices, Shih said. "You'll pay more for everything that uses wheat and corn and flour.” Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: Russia's War on ukraine... View Details

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

restaurant Sonic—FirstBuild spent $600 to do a Google survey to gauge interest and then put out a design challenge to the FirstBuild community, collecting 29 ideas. Eventually, they’ll take the winning model to a crowdfunding platform to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

Edited by Julia Hanna and Dan Morrell Above: Josh Escher, hard at work as father Peter supervises. (photo by Michael Hanson) The phrase “work-life balance”—that mythical equilibrium between career and family responsibilities—has been firmly embedded in the View Details

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