Idea Generation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
News

Flying High

idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details

Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2009
News

Ready for Launch

law for “38 seconds” before starting two other tech companies. Michelle Zatlyn (MBA ’09): Saskatchewan native with experience in product marketing and product management. The pair hatched the idea for what would become CloudFlare during... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas that have transformed industries... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

little effect on the restaurant or movie industry. Their contentment left society slightly better off. It is generally wonderful when parties are able to trade off interests to create value. In fact, one of the most important... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

01 Jun 2022
News

What We’re Reading

learn; it is something to live. And our greatest joy is lived in deep, loving, and generous relationships with others.” —Isabelle Colin-Hau (MBA 2004) is an impact-education funder who invests in change-makers, as well as solutions and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Educating Leaders - 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

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

leverage their backgrounds to build their businesses and generate funding. “Harley’s business is one that really no one else would have started because it’s his past experience that created this. Tech startups are so concentrated in a... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

12 Nov 2019
News

Seismic Shift

diversity at the executive and board levels, and changing the conversation by going beyond simply filling a pipeline with diverse applicants. Instead, Culture Shift is creating an ecosystem of people who have the power to make real change. ** Tyson Clark (MBA 2009),... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

climate change, alternative uses for farmland, and a transition to the next generation of family ownership of the business. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-067... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

Summing Up What Will Capitalism Require of Us in the Future? If one were to sum up the ideas in response to this month's column, it could be: Capitalism as we know it is here to stay; the question is about its long-term impact on our way... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

model for how doctors and their patients decide whether to adopt new medical technology. A key insight of that model Schwartzstein developed is “similarity-based extrapolation”—the notion that people take away more information from data that looks like them. The model... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

01 Sep 2017
News

Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable

US elections. David Perpich (MBA 2007) oversaw the development of that groundbreaking paywall and has led the company in the development of successful new digital products such as NYT Cooking. Now we ask Perpich—named president and View Details

Keywords: April White; New York Times; newspapers; Google; Wirecutter; social media; Facebook; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

28 Apr 2016
Blog Post

3 Concerns I Had about HBS

general managers and leaders, not functional specialists. I am convinced that, like all things in life, my career will take me unexpected places. Selecting a very specific type of training is tempting, but rests on a fallacy: that my... View Details

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Africa - Global Activities 2021

in economic theory, development policy, and general management to become a more effective development professional.” While thrilled to be accepted into the HBS/HKS joint-degree program, Raji had to confront the challenges of financing... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni

criteria (region, neighborhood, and general availability) and of those applicants, one or two must be willing to volunteer as a facilitator for the group. Every effort will be made to place all interested and eligible applicants. What is... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Closing the 'Network Gap'

and Schrier’s successful volunteer effort evolved into a vision for a sustainable for-profit, social-impact company during HBS Startup Bootcamp in the winter of 2021. “We started with an idea for a solution, but we hadn’t had the... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

of ground forces—the personal selling and get-out-the-vote strategy," Chung says. "The idea was not to change people's minds who didn't like him, but to get people who liked him to go out and vote for him. It was a 'we need you'... View Details