Creativity - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 22

and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration Authors:E. Miron-Spektor, F. Gino, and L. Argote Publication:Enhancing Individual View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Ash created a successful cosmetics company by and for women by utilizing a direct sales force and creative motivational sales techniques. At the end of its first year, Mary Kay Cosmetics boasted $198,514 in sales and 318 salespeople. By... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

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Helen Mehreteab | MBA

Helen Mehreteab COMPUTER SCIENCE, SECONDARY IN ECONOMICS WINTHROP 2023 Cohort 4 Diversity is the engine of invention. It generates creativity that enriches the world.' -Justin Trudeau Tech areas of interest: Product Management and... View Details

2020
Working Paper

Incentive Power and Knowledge Sharing Among Employees: Evidence from the Field

By: Wei Cai, Susanna Gallani and Jee-Eun Shin

There is consensus, both in the literature and in practice, about knowledge sharing within organizations being a key determinant of success. However, organizations struggle to sustain employees’ engagement in knowledge sharing. One challenge lies in the fact that,... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Knowledge Sharing; Employee Driven Innovation; Innovation Appropriability; Contract Design; High-powered Incentives; Low-powered Incentives; Incentives; Pay-for-Performance; Rank-and-file; Employees; Knowledge Sharing; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Creativity; Performance

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A-Z List of Tools | Information Technology

A-Z List of Tools An alphabetical list Login information may be required to access some of the links in this list. 3 3Play A Adobe Creative Suite & Components Alumni Portal B Buy-to-Pay C Canvas Case Template Catering Classroom &... View Details

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

asymmetry in message strength in turn permits cutoff equilibria, where players take action after receiving a minimum number of confirmations. Good Morning Creativity: Task Reactivation During Sleep Enhances Beneficial Effect of Sleep on View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Alyza Keshavjee

deep-rooted values. Hand in hand, we will help each other. While I may not be able to eliminate civil war or eradicate corruption, Parwadah can help me devise creative solutions that are specific to her community and culture. I will be... View Details

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Cynthia Chen | MBA

from those I worked with. Professional goals: I hope to build and lead products at the forefront of AI and data, enabling machine learning to benefit society. Some long-term visions that I hope to contribute toward include steering AI models towards more ethical and... View Details

Sarah Hodges

online learning community for IT, dev and creative training. Prior to Pluralsight, she co-founded Intelligent.ly, a leadership development company that impacted thousands of emerging leaders. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

04 Apr 2012
News

The Portrait Project Turns Ten

For ten years, Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) has returned to HBS each spring to photograph graduating students. To celebrate the milestone, we turned the camera on the creative force behind the Portrait Project. Join us for a behind-the-scenes... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin staff; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog

This activity supports 4.6 million jobs. A report by the Conference Board noted that in addition to the enormous financial impact of the sector, “companies consider the arts to be important in building quality of life, stimulating View Details

27 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Claire Friedman...

resident, it was a big transition to move out west, but once I learned how to drive, it was smooth sailing. I spent some time at Warner Bros., working on strategy projects for the studio including a film partnership in China, and at FX Networks, working on the View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog

How can entertainment businesses best approach the management and marketing of creative talent? In particular, how should companies invest in and capture value from "superstars" and the teams to which they belong? How are digital... View Details

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

tackles one of the most difficult questions in the startup world: How can you tell if a new business will succeed? The Year’s 10 Most Popular Articles from Our Archives What Is Management’s Role in Innovation? (31,511 visits in 2015) It's an open question whether... View Details

08 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

hopped in lateral cycles and the upward flow of creative offensive schemes stopped at the college level, with most teams running similar, risk-averse offenses, and innovation taking root slowly.” This conservative approach to hiring seems... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

Portrait Project

Karibu Nyaggah

will combat injustice through education and the private sector. With humility, I will build bridges connecting people to their dreams. With joy, I will harness creativity to reveal Beauty. America has been the staging ground. As it turns... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies

Alumni Career Services. What follows are several samples of MacKenna’s wisdom that might be of use to those in transition. Reassure Yourself. Anxiety during job searches only creates a creative block in your mind. View Details

13 May 2002
Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

past five decades, accountants have changed from watchdogs to advocates and salespersons. Auditing has become one of a number of services, including consulting and tax advice, in which accountants "sell" creative tax avoidance... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

01 Jun 2012
News

Tickling the Ivories

in January, Kao compared the innovation models of Apple (edited, intuitive, top-down) and Google (data-driven, reactive, bottom-up), noting that they highlighted “the archetypical tension in the creative process,” the New York Times... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

case studies and analyses of major corporations, Michaelson offers an in-depth view of common techniques of restructuring and discusses how to deliver increased value. A Manager’s Guide to Creative Cost Cutting (McGraw-Hill) Techniques of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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