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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
of the French pointillist painter, and it’s easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
would be stadium seating, but that's about it. It's remarkable. And not in a good way." Lopez, it seems, is just getting warmed up. "Can you imagine driving the same car in 2010 that you drove in 1977, with the same features? There's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“Economic development became my passion. I never really imagined going to business school — I visited HBS almost on a lark. But after walking around the campus and talking to students who were interested in development issues and in... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
core size of 34%, and architecture flow through of 64%. These findings suggest that the method could be effective in uncovering the hidden structure of an enterprise application architecture. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45024 Inequality... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the harder one becomes to imagine (and, perhaps, the easier one becomes to start). A third and final lesson is that when a crisis strikes complacent investors it causes much more disruption than when it strikes battle-scarred ones. For... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
utility. The federal debt could be at $20 trillion, the top income tax rate at 45%, and the S&P 500 at 418. Ferguson, a professor at Harvard University and Harvard Business School, imagines that to be the worst-case scenario. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
spirit-ual advances might overtake the forces of materialism. Throughout the 1930s, Bulletin articles dealt gamely with a dark side of business barely imaginable to most of the magazine's current readership - bank runs, depression, New... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
voyage to the Molloy Deep in the Arctic (currently believed to be 5,669 meters deep), where Vescovo would attempt to complete his quest in August 2019. Vescovo himself was already imagining the conclusion of a successful expedition: The... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
musician and composer Leonard Bernstein, with Spielberg and Martin Scorsese as producers. The only wrinkle? One week earlier another Bernstein project was announced, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Singer says he hasn’t read the script, but View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
center and its wealthy suburbs. Brightmoor looks the way outsiders have come to imagine Detroit: both empty and overrun, with heartbreaking glimmers of hope. Even residential streets that appear predominantly abandoned have at least one... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
business, Unity in Glass Europe. (photo by Darrin Vanselow/Getty) When you’re young, you don’t imagine the tradeoffs that professional success might entail. You just think, “I’m going to get in there, and kick butt, and my boss is going... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
effects, we use experimental methods to demonstrate that participants who imagined shopping with their own bags are more likely to spontaneously consider purchasing chips or dessert items and indicate relatively higher willingness to pay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
for many of us in the Black community. We are roughly 70 years away from the barbarity of white supremacy that led to Jesse Thornton being lynched in 1940 because he forgot to call a police officer “Mister.” Imagine the savagery that... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
I isolated and didn’t see anyone in person for 37 days. I never imagined I would experience that, and it was one of my happiest times. I’ve traveled a lot for years as a distraction to not feel things, and the pandemic was a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
it’s a radio show. Imagine different people tuning in at different moments. So you have to continue to remind people what it is that they’re even watching. Otherwise, you’ll lose their interest because they’ll be like what the hell is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
imagine a project of similar scale, scope, import, and diversity of stakeholders, whose goal is so ephemeral - a fleeting celebration of human achievement and brotherhood. "There's no blueprint, and every Games is different, " says... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
excites me. I love emerging markets.” Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) The Bridgespan Group www.bridgespangroup.org “The idea may have seemed irrational at the time, but I couldn't imagine not doing it,” recalls Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) of his decision... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
be sensible. But we're not doing it. There are many other things. We're not using enough of the technology we have to improve healthcare. We have a national service program in the United States that does so much good, but it's tiny. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details