Idea Generation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

work. There has almost been a whole generation of MBA students and managers who have been brought up on a false idea that manufacturing is kind of the brawn and not the brain, and that the country should... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly, our post-quarter measure is related negatively to announcement... View Details

09 Apr 2020
News

“Raise the Line”

born. Today, Osmosis features thousands of engaging animated videos that explain complex ideas in under 20 minutes and is working with more than 60 institutions, including the University of Illinois, New York University, and the... View Details

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

the model, information leading to actual harm often contains specific details that receivers can act upon, such as a sender posting where and when receivers can gather to take part in potentially troublesome activities. By contrast, View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

University, sent an email invitation to all faculty, staff, and students at the university (more than 40,000 individuals) encouraging them to participate in an ideas challenge that Harvard Medical School had launched to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Web

Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

whose jobs rely on getting ideas to market. All of a sudden, you’re not in the car business. You’re in the business of being fast. Local Motors’ 3D-printed car, the Strati, takes about 44 hours to print and has an electric engine that can... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

keep that history, and that original mission, in focus. “David recognized early on that the web was absolutely transforming the way the media business in general functioned,” says James Bennet, the Atlantic’s editor in chief and... View Details

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

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

things like shapes, lines, and colors. So if you ask Google what a dog is, Google Images will offer you billions of results. Google’s not the only one. From Microsoft and Amazon to countless buzzy Valley startups, when someone says they are involved in AI, they are... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

01 Sep 2005
News

GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard

Immelt In June, Class Day speaker Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA ’82), chairman and CEO of General Electric, sent 878 MBA graduates off into the world with a pep talk in which he cited competitiveness and creativity as keys to business success.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

tackled the identity issue when he helped General Electric revamp its marketing department, a process described in the October 2010 Harvard Business Review article Unleashing the Power of Marketing, in which Gulati and two GE marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2008
News

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

the demands of highly defined and idiosyncratic groups such as “Newly Released Ex-Cons” and “Christian Zionists.” The country may have been built on the idea of individualism, but we have come to expect that it be factored into... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Dec 2018
News

Code Breakers

the rising generation of girls to assume positions of leadership. Deborah Singer (MBA 2013) is chief marketing officer of the national nonprofit that is working to transform the idea of what a programmer... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits the exchange of anything of value that rewards or generates business reimbursable by federal health care programs. While the law prohibits drugmakers from directly covering copays and other out-of-pocket... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

corporations, which are under increasing pressure to demonstrate corporate social responsibility in addition to generating profits. She acknowledges that the idea could be a tough sell. “If I went to a... View Details