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- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
the question is as important as the answer," Thomke says. When Apple Buys Your Company In teaching a case study about Apple, Thomke asks a thought-provoking question to conclude the discussion: Imagine that Apple takes over your company.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
tools, and six small-group rooms. "The level use of experimental research at HBS has grown beyond what anyone imagined when we first built the CLER lab," says Director of Research Computing Chase Harrison. "We're constantly evaluating how... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
Imagine a retail chain that offers customers not only the lowest prices but also personalized customer service. Employees receive above-average wages and 20 times more training than the average American retailer. Sounds like a recipe for... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
fun because it's really hard work, they still have a deep level of attachment to their work. And you see that repeatedly with Irving. It's obvious that he just can't imagine himself doing anything else. That's a hallmark of outstandingly... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
store buyers. She was a determined, talented saleswoman, whose methods and commercial imagination can be illustrated by the case of Saks Fifth Avenue. That store's buyer for cosmetics in the late 1940s, Robert Fiske, was not initially... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
began to take shape, one rooted in the awareness that you can't manage creativity—you can only manage for creativity. A number of themes emerged: The leader's job is not to be the source of ideas but to encourage and champion ideas. Leaders must tap the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
the team’s poor play, was that McCarthy had not followed the rest of the league in using modern, imaginative offensive plays to sow confusion and gain advantages over opposing defenses. Highly effective managers also have the ability to... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
Things some businesses will disappear, but new ones will appear." Dennis Hopwood said that "Capitalism periodically destroys and reconfigures previous economic orders through 'creative destruction' The tide goes out and the tide comes in." Others... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
schools-of-experience point of view. This can be done in three steps. First, imagine yourself at Pandesic on day one, when the executives were agreeing to start this disruptive venture. With only foresight and no hindsight allowed, what... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headline “Mom? Dad? I’m home!” “You can imagine the ribbing I took from my classmates,” says Andrus, who still cringes when he tells the story even though he now has little to be embarrassed about. That’s because last year he was named... 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
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and CEO, Xora, Mountain View, California; founder and chairman, Deathwise, San Francisco, California Mentors come into our lives in unexpected ways. As a young technology professional, I naively imagined that I could find some female... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Harvard Business School Case 709-007 Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faced a daunting task that he never imagined he would have to face when he was elected two years ago. Australia at that time was poised to enter its 17th year of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
regulate one's mood in line with the social context, on congruity. Two experiments find that when low self-monitors imagine a context that differs in valence from their mood, they feel more distinctive from the environment while high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
and advance our goal of establishing HBS as the leading business school in the health-care sector. I also would like to find new ways of interacting with our colleagues throughout the University. There’s more than you might imagine going... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
different approaches. A practical piece of advice is thus to be proactive and elicit workers’ preferences and explore different approaches now. The return to the office may not be as simple as we imagined at the beginning of the pandemic.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
talking about. Imagine that you are looking to replace the fence around your backyard, as my wife and I were a couple of years ago. What do you do? You talk to several fence contractors, and you get bids from a few who you think would do... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
digital tools to help you in ways we cannot imagine today. But as much as the world is now focused on generative AI as a technology that holds promise to revolutionize the way we work, let’s never forget the role that leaders will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
walking into a little place, knowing a few people, and sitting at the same table. Michael Kaufman: Just the idea that we can gather in a restaurant would be the most important thing to me. My wife is as a physician, and she can’t imagine... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
float DeWitt a loan for $3.5 million, which he used to buy the team in 1961. It’s hard to imagine better circumstances for absorbing the many financial, legal, and political details that go into the successful management of a professional... View Details