Design thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes

is substantially lessened. Thomke and Reinertsen, while studying several hundred development projects in the fast-paced integrated circuit (IC) design industry, focused on the efficacy of two production technologies. One technology had... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

America were buzzing about Clocky, a clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping when its alarm went off. At that point, the device was just a project that Gauri Nanda, a graduate student at MIT’s Media Lab, had developed for an industrial... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Real Property - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Real Property Course Number 1684 Senior Lecturer John Macomber Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Career Focus This course is designed for students interested in managing, developing, advising on, or investing in... View Details

21 Mar 2022
Blog Post

The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

evaluating hearing healthcare investments. For example, I recently advised a company developing gene therapies for hearing loss. For the engagement, we delivered strategic recommendations for clinical trial design based on a synthesized... View Details

15 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"

perspective, shifting emphasis to broader results. The curriculum pushes us to think beyond asking how to individually contribute more in the workplace and in society, instead focusing on how to design... View Details

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When AI Chatbots Help People Act More Human | Working Knowledge

with more empathy and thoroughness—uniquely human service strengths with the potential to positively impact revenue and profitability by making for happier customers. You should not use AI as a one-size-fits-all solution in your business, even when you are View Details

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Xue (Ken) Yuan

combine textbook knowledge with real-life experience. The way they command the classroom, facilitate discussions, ask questions – they get us to think about things we wouldn’t have considered otherwise.” For Xue, the entire school... View Details

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Whitney Wilson

you’re called because you have a background in the industry, or live near the location of the case. There’s a huge level of preparation.” “The composition of the sections creates the right mix of experiences,” Whitney adds. “How an engineer View Details

06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

Digital Initiative, was how to develop the skills and insight to become a leader in the digital age. Today’s MBA Program has multiple electives designed to help students conceive, lead, and execute digital innovation initiatives and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details

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Mallika Ahluwalia

were looking after four or five kids. Yet there was a lack of sustainability – it was month-to-month without a long-term solution." Integrated at the intersection Mallika's U.N. experience "started me thinking about the joint... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Ink

to create value.” Remixes can include M&As, partnerships, alliances, cross-industry joint ventures, and consortia, but whatever the form, Gomes-Casseres argues that success requires the same three things: The total value created must be more than the sum of its parts;... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

offering designed to help senior executives in India, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, elevate their leadership skills and drive success in this competitive market. Since then, some 300 business leaders have participated... View Details

27 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie

llSource: iStock Think that probably inappropriate Snapchat selfie is safe from leaking into your professional life because it disappears? Think again. Features on some communication apps like Snapchat and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog

meant to help inform you about others’ experiences and what they learned from them – and in turn to help you think more deeply about what you want out of your life and how you want to best equip yourself for what lies ahead. The course... View Details

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

recently wrote a book about it: Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, to be published April 21. Although facilities managers might think they’re saving a few dollars on electricity and air filters,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

creative leadership very close-up. The business researcher in me was looking for parallels with intimate creative collaboration in general. If you think about it, there aren't too many human collaboration experiences more extreme than a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

strategy is an aligned combination of set-up moves that occur away from the table, deal design moves, and tactics at the table, all designed to overcome the barriers you've identified. The best response to a... View Details

03 Aug 2020
News

A Clean Start

other chemicals) from carbon dioxide. His goal was to demonstrate—through research, discovery, and good business—a new way forward in reducing CO2 emissions. The first step was to lay out the photosynthesis process in black and white on a whiteboard. Brix then began to... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

developed an influential body of work about justice, starting from the premise that ignorance might just be bliss. His theories were designed to consider a monumental, if esoteric, question: If you were in charge of the world and had to... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

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