Design thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

says Norton. "I haven't prevented you from gaining weight or removed all of the French fries from the world." At the same time, the strategy uses people's biased thinking against them. For example, behavioral economics has shown that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

16 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

what courses I wanted to take my first year. Actually, I kind of liked it that way. It's an opinionated, "liberal arts" view of a classically trained manager's toolkit. There are implications for founders all through the RC. The FIELD course has View Details

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

forms of innovation: process innovations ... innovations in the way we think ... innovations in organization structure ... and so on." These comments pose the question of whether too many elements, many of them counter to human... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

great privilege and pleasure.” Gandhi: “I think when you’re doing things as an entrepreneur and activist, you can often feel solo in your journey or that you are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with... View Details

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

beings working together under various incentive structures and schemes. As a result, incentive and organization design is probably the most important factors in determining whether a business is ultimately successful. And getting that... View Details

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

Experience Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999), because "most practitioners have taken the concept of one-to-one marketing and bastardized it into CRM. They're using CRM tools to design better processes for a nonexistent... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

becoming a doctor, but by designing the tools they rely on. Early in my career, I worked on advanced cardiovascular devices that were highly technical tools that allowed patients to avoid open-heart surgery through minimally invasive... View Details

20 Dec 2019
News

The 19 Musts of 2019

Americans.’” —Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986), coauthor (with Nicholas D. Kristof) of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, forthcoming in January MUST READ Start at the End: How to Build Products that Create Change by Matt Wallaert “I love this book because Wallaert’s... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2011
News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

to what will replace Fannie and Freddie. The administration has outlined three options designed to frame the congressional debate expected to unfold over the months ahead: (1)privatization of the mortgage market, (2) new private,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

operations took somewhat of a back seat. There were just too many new things to think about and explore, and everybody's attention was focused on "breakthrough improvements," so the mandate for operations became "just keep... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Reinventing Work and Life by Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991) (Palgrave MacMillan) Rossetti introduces women to a new way of thinking about the events that shape their adult lives—like marriage, job loss, or empty nests—and offers a step-by-step... View Details

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

When Apple introduced the iPod, it had a simple but compelling tag line for music fans: "1,000 thousand songs in your pocket." The company sold 300 million of them. On the eve of debuting its digital payment system, Apple Pay, two Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

12 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

the best music and dance of Bollywood and infuse it with an interval training–based cardio workout to create a fitness program that is both physically and mentally invigorating for our class participants. We have designed a unique... View Details

Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment

28 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Apr 2021
News

Real Talk

led to more honest and open communication—became the foundation for Equitas Advisory Group, an evidence-based consultancy designed to help businesses and organizations reimagine and achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.... View Details

26 Oct 2020
News

A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

the London event, while Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi moderated for the Singapore event. The conversation addressed questions like, “Can a system designed to generate profit really make a difference against the massive social and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

and wrote down as many innovative ideas as they could think of, with the average person coming up with 4.5 new ideas. These ideas were then anonymously scored by other participants and Indian consumers on a variety of measures, including... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

In a large circular classroom called The Hives, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is roaming the floors this week as he oversees the second running of Strategic Brew, a computerized business simulation designed for first-year MBA students at... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage

03 Apr 2013
What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

felt that the lines are not finely drawn. As she put it: "Men and women are variations on a theme, not opposites . It is possible, and I think likely, that the male-dominated business world selects as leaders women who demonstrate... View Details