Creative Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Unlocked, discover an everyday approach to increasing joy and momentum in life. Upgrade your process with neuroscience-informed tools, get unstuck on long-term projects, find expressions that naturally spur delight, explore the narrative... View Details

06 Sep 2016
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The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards

to interview the men. Shaking up the board selection process has unintended consequences, too— including the joy from the male board member who tells us he can’t believe there are so many qualified female candidates. There is also the... View Details

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 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

feeling of things are about to be over. So let's be very present and immediate in the moment. Around dusk, people start preparing for the burn. That means they put on some warm clothes, and usually a lot of lit up clothing. And they gather with their camps to make the... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

trenches. “The creative work is always challenging and fun, but I had become frustrated by how onerous, expensive, and slow it was to do a good job of checking the availability of new names and brands,” she says. “The whole View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

Assistant Professor Monica C. Higgins and Professor Nitin Nohria explores how language enables perfect strangers to initiate a process that may lead to business collaboration. In their 1996 working paper, "How Language Works: Interaction... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

just steaming around in circles." Even as Liz Claiborne circled, AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, the world's largest airline, was in the process of laying off several hundred managers, technical specialists, and clerical... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

rulemaking they have this formal process by which people can submit proposals as to how they ought to do things. And Pac Bell said, fine, go ahead. If you guys think you have some ideas about it, do it. Because we could see that there... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

between the software giant and its closest challenger, IBM, while younger alumni put Microsoft well ahead of Big Blue.) It was IBM that first gave business "the ability to process information that has transformed the world," one... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

11 Jul 2013
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The Good Writer

one-hour world,” recalls Dick, who was then invited to write for Lost in its first two seasons, work that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award as well as an Emmy for best drama. “You’re a nomad, a kind of creative Bedouin,” says... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff

she has to educate, Sender has to mesh two geographically and culturally distinct companies into one functional unit. The merger process began in June 2012, when LAN, Chile's largest airline, and TAM announced a merger, with the resulting... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

theme is sort of a callback to mechanization, which is digitization. So now suddenly we have the tools to completely change our world again from mechanical processes to digital processes. So those are the five what I would call dominant... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

buying from, selling to, and competing with enterprises and customers from around the world. What all four had in common was that they worked to extend the reach of markets, and hence of competition, into places that Schumpeterian View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

direct conversations with these very high-level CEOs.” The CEOs are not “presenting their PR pitch deck on the virtues of their company,” says Rick Williams (PMD 33, 1977), a former club president. “They’re engaging in a lively and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

brain is structured to lie to you. There is a process called homeostasis, or the tendency toward equilibrium. You can’t stay out of equilibrium for long, but you’re going to try to get back out of it again by chasing success [which... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

where new ideas and unexpected strategies are the secret weapons that can lift one company over another. “Digital media is entirely about talented and creative people working in a hyper-col-laborative fashion to produce compelling... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

that can't tell you exactly how much our customers have on deposit. We have 35-year-old systems for maintaining records on tape files. Our collection process and compliance examinations are months or years behind, largely due to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

church history, need updating to be more creditable. The Hilco Story: Discovering a Diamond in Our Own Backyard by Art Hilsinger (MBA 1952) Independently published Hilsinger offers a candid, clear-eyed look at the process of building a... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

build a community of engaged partners who share a common passion and are eager to provide the resources needed to change the world—not just money, but also time, talents, personal networks, creative thinking, and public support. A... View Details

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