Creative Industries - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

employees to tell them that all efforts of the company would now be directed toward the war effort. Polaroid's new facility in Cambridge was located in the industrial area of Kendall Square with affordable rents and neighbors that... View Details

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

the creative expertise, as a function of negotiated rights. By examining the music industry and Hollywood entertainment industry, we explore how technology does not define the winners and losers, but the... 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

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

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

investigating the workings of both the sell and buy sides of financial analysis, tackles how the U.S. securities industry research adds value in financial markets, and evaluates the business model problems that the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

up. With firsthand experience both in a world of no competition and in one of intense competition, he is decidedly in favor of the latter. A strong, innovative competitor "makes you more efficient in operations and more creative in... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

involved in establishing the modern mutual fund industry and continue in prominent leadership positions today. Much like management consulting and venture capital, it's an industry that really owes its... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

to make good relationships alongside great deals, earn respect while earning multi-million dollar returns, and maintain character even when surrounded by an industry full of characters. Let’s Be Frank began in the final years of Frank... View Details

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

important if the no-action side wins. Grassroots support for actions that benefit cities and regions will help creative local leaders move forward even when national or state policies are unfavorable. 2. Quality and safety is crucial for... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

“There are so many industries that have a history of relying on the "soft stuff," and the soft stuff has worked in the favor of a particular kind of individual. The truth is the soft stuff is often a euphemism, in many cases, for bias;... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

power source. Amager Bakke is located within eyeshot of downtown Copenhagen, and despite being an industrial waste management and energy production site, serves as a community gathering point. With the world’s tallest rock-climbing wall... View Details

20 Mar 2025
Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked on TPG’s impact assessment team, Y Analytics, focused on energy, agriculture, food, and industrial deals. I learned to think deeply about measuring... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

(MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty. It provides new tools, processes, examples, and case studies offering an effective... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The... View Details

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