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- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
a way that isn’t inauthentic. Can you describe that? A: Sure. It is natural to imagine that once any consumer touchpoint starts having an impact on people’s decisions, companies want to have an impact on that touchpoint. So with... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
nature of the process when he said, "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."8 For him, innovation was about "'combinational... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
birthday, went to Dead and Company at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Spectacular venue, probably the premier venue for performances in the world at this moment, and I can't imagine anyone ever surpassing it. Ted Teele (MBA 1989): Hi, my name is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
with board work and the writing of a new book (he has authored, coauthored, or edited eleven others). Says Stevenson, “After you lose your fastball, you shouldn’t be pitching. I’ve had a great run. I can’t imagine a better career.” Yes,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
“animal spirits,” entrepreneurial energies and imaginings that bring a business to life. They also miss out on the aspirations employees may harbor to think a bit on their own, experiment with new ways of doing the same old drill, and... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
and with no line of sight to what it is I would be doing next. And I never could have imagined going to my 10-year HBS reunion, being in a situation like that and yet having that time to not have to rush into the next thing, but to... View Details
- 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
- 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
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Past Issues - Alumni
grass-fueled power plants to carbon-negative cement, HBS alumni are working to put the “green” in green business. The Spangler Effect When its doors swung open on January 22, 2001, the Spangler Center instantly transformed life on campus. Ten years later, it’s hard to... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
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 unicorn-like... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
the American travelers. And now, I imagine you see it through new eyes again, as you've returned and sent other tourists there. Tell me about how it's evolved for you over the years? Zhang Mei: My relationship with Dali started in my... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
controlled electro-mechanical systems. He began his career building robots, including biomimetic robotic tuna fish at MIT, undersea remotely operated vehicles at Deep Sea Systems, and full-size walking dinosaurs at Walt Disney 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
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
impossible to reconcile her ambitions with her circumstances. But she discovers that adventure can enter her life in a manner she never imagined and lead her into an abyss of loneliness and marginalization, where one misstep could... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
treatments of identity in the social sciences, the concept has remained too analytically loose to be as useful a tool as the literature's early promise had suggested. We propose to solve this longstanding problem by developing the analytical rigor and methodological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
they inherently are thinking long-term. And when you imagine your business for the long-term, you naturally think of different stakeholders. So this idea that multi-stakeholder is somehow bad for business, it’s not, because if you're... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Imagination House: An Entrepreneurial Life by E. Lee Walker (MBA 1967) Texas A&M University Press When 21-year-old Michael Dell asked E. Lee Walker to be the president of his fledgling computer company, PC’s Limited, Walker, in his... 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
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School Virtual Tour This exhibition explores representations of Native Americans in the popular imagination through a selection of advertising trade cards, currency, illustrations, and sculpture from Baker Library Special... View Details