Creativity - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

of their risk level, creating more loyal customers for the longer term. The Knot Worldwide is providing financial assistance to its vendors (like caterers, flower companies, and apparel brands) to help them get through hard times. Netflix set up a $100 million fund to... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Matthias Academy Downey, CA TN Zach Flowers Chattanooga High Center for Creative Arts Chattanooga, TN WI Matt Flynn Beloit Memorial High School Beloit, WI Subjects: Civics, Government, History TX Jason Foglesong Caprock High School... View Details

Blog

Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

evolving challenges, they need candor, speed, and creativity to make progress. They need employees to bring their full selves—with all their skills, knowledge, and insights—to the challenges ahead. Second, most work is not performed by... View Details

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

principles and creative problem-solving tools to develop innovative solutions to your most challenging business problems. 7 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by September 18 $1,850 Certificate Negotiation Mastery Professor Michael Wheeler Master... View Details

2012
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Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson

We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry

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Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who... View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

disciplines most often found in business schools. We have proposed that innovation in organizations be conceived of as a process of co-design: creative abrasion, creative agility, and integrated problem... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

design thinking principles and creative problem-solving tools to develop innovative solutions to your most challenging business problems. 7 weeks 6-8 hours per week 7 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a... View Details

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

a hedge against potential product liability claims but also as a marketing edge. Finally, eBay has used litigation in creative ways to protect the information on its sites from firms like Bidder's Edge that sought to aggregate it with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

righteous perspective. Dan Morrell: We'll be right back. Hey, it's Dan. Are you interested in practical business education with real world examples? Check out Harvard Business School Online's new podcast, The Parlor Room. Each episode, host and HBS Online View Details

2010
Book

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

By: Youngme Moon

Every few years a book-through a combination of the author's unique voice, storytelling ability, spirit, and insight-simply breaks the mold. Youngme Moon's DIFFERENT is that kind of book, a book for "people who don't read business books...," a book that feels like an... View Details

Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Creativity; Competition

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18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

and execute on their own independent projects. First, they need to autonomy to work creatively in areas of their own interest, for instance by intentionally allocating them free time on their own or in teams at a hackathon. Second, they... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

specific service requirements. ONTV Jonathan Oakes Nathan Freitas Business Track Runner-Up ONTV brings sustainable creativity to people around the world through the delivery of media distribution and commercialization technologies. Social... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

Collections to show how previous generations devised creative ways of lending and borrowing long before credit cards. The exhibit also shows how the credit industry evolved over time. Though credit is not new, it is newly visible.... View Details

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

industries like biotech, you can test things along the way to see if they are feasible, but for creative ideas like a film, you can’t experiment. You have huge uncertainty and you have to think about how to manage that risk.” One way that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

invention and creativity within the culture of a small, science-based research and manufacturing company. He argued that the industrial process should be "dedicated to the discernment of deep human needs." 2 His philosophical insights... View Details

09 Jun 2022
HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

from HBS in 1992, and wrote the case study with HBS researchers Olivia Hull and Amy Klopfenstein. With a combination of savvy planning and creative thinking, US Foods managed to weather staff shortages while simultaneously growing its... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

more than a decade old, with some notable successes—a new mission in 2004, a reorganization in 2007—but with unresolved problems. Fahey says his leisurely pace of change was deliberate, that creative people take longer to accept change.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

or, in other words, to exploit and explore. To achieve your goals, consider leveraging cross-functional teams, employing creative exercises, adjusting expectations and deliverables, supporting an agile enterprise and generating customer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

principally relies on employers to select skilled immigrants through programs like the H-1B visa. “There are many pros and cons for each route, with the employer-based approach allowing firms to find candidates they really want and also screen on softer information... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

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