Creativity - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

of discovery and creative progress rapidly accelerated in the wake of professionalization. In an open society, moreover, there will always be room for "rogue" entrepreneurs to challenge the existing order, as practitioners of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Sep 2003
News

Larry Murphy

development advisor. He believes that sheer size, coupled with some ill-advised mergers, have hurt creativity and bottom-line performance at big-name media and entertainment companies. “I wouldn’t be surprised,” Murphy says, “to see the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by August 21 $1,850 Certificate Design Thinking and Innovation Srikant Datar Leverage design thinking principles and creative problem-solving tools to... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

buying growth. It was also a big contributor to the dot-com crash: an excess of capital chasing a scarce number of creative ideas and scarce expertise. Today's scarce resource is the information, knowledge, and expertise that are embedded... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

ideas into primary categories, and then use those overarching principals to inform our actual designs. This process helped us be creative in a controlled way and led us to great solutions. 5. Remember, your team is everything. For any new... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

competence, and free up resources, which can be used to combine data bits in creative ways to add value. Relatively bulletproof operational reliability will be a key part of the price of success. Back-office or server farms, help desks,... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

colleagues or bosses why I regularly took time to meet with him. On this particular morning I was telling Howard about my friend Michelle, whose boss had unexpectedly announced her retirement. Michelle is an extraordinarily creative and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

to encourage employees to interact in both formal and informal ways, he argues, managers can move employees away from the kind of dry learning that stymies growth and creativity and toward the kind of co-created knowledge that allows... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

multiplier, meaning that the top sellers are 6X more productive than their peers. Sales is like other creative occupations where the stardom phenomenon is well documented. In areas like software programming, the arts, sports, and others,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Career Support - Business & Environment

from their own experience in the field. BEI i-lab Expert Resources - Climate Experts In partnership with BEI, Harvard i-lab offers the opportunity to meet with Climate Experts in a variety of industries. Expert Resources include serial entrepreneurs, venture... View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

needs of their target customers. "WIZZIT essentially took a banking service like the one we have here—depositing salaries in the bank that we draw down to make payments—and decided that this is what the poor wanted, too," Rangan says. "Of course the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

to help predict the future, it may be a good idea to refer to it. But in most cases, the decision maker is posed with a unique challenge." Vanitha Rangganathan, arguing for the role of intuition in the creative process, commented... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Africa Business Conference at HBS: Reimagining the Road Ahead

support of my family and friends throughout the Conference planning process. Thank you for encouraging my dreams by creatively brainstorming with me, sponsoring the Conference in-kind, buying tickets on the first day of sales, and... View Details

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably scale and attract venture capital. $1,850 Certificate Design Thinking and Innovation Srikant Datar Leverage design thinking principles and creative problem-solving tools to develop... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

creative decisions that really matter, while the repeatable actions are done by a sophisticated machine.” Theuerkauf came to HBS with a good understanding of the problem. He and Stockmann formulated the Syrup solution after meeting in... View Details

Keywords: April White

June 2022 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg

In May 2022, streaming entertainment company Netflix lost customers for the first time in more than 10 years. Once a first mover in the streaming landscape, Netflix was facing competition from Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, and others. A key component of... View Details

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28 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

solving critical challenges.” Katjana Kammin (MBA 2023) further highlighted the need for more students to focus on impact investing: “Especially in emerging markets, entrepreneurs face critical challenges that require patient capital and View Details

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

Sezer, and Michael I. Norton Garcia-Rada says companies could find creative ways to leverage the research results, for example by figuring out how they can foster relationship rituals in consumers. "Most companies that sell products and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

keep the team progressing toward their goal, but to properly address all concerns raised along the way. Use the “clean sheet of paper” exercise to think creatively about company processes Another best practice is to perform the clean... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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