Creative Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

brain is structured to lie to you. There is a process called homeostasis, or the tendency toward equilibrium. You can’t stay out of equilibrium for long, but you’re going to try to get back out of it again by chasing success [which... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

where new ideas and unexpected strategies are the secret weapons that can lift one company over another. “Digital media is entirely about talented and creative people working in a hyper-col-laborative fashion to produce compelling... View Details

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

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

demographics that have boosted it, will inevitably lose steam. What then? "We've seen a tremendous amount of creativity in the financial services industry, including the mutual fund sector, so I have no doubt that there will continue to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux

real, serious, sustained commitment to shoot for the pinnacle — and to defend and advance your position if you attain it.” Yet luxury’s challenge remains an ongoing enticement for Birnbaum and the other alumni interviewed for this article. “Luxury goods are in essence... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

group of small businesses and nonprofits that could benefit from MBA talent. Now in the process of hiring an executive director, the nonprofit connects service-minded MBA students from 20 schools with community organizations that need... View Details

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

the CEO, and ideally I become the COO over the course of the process if I hire the right director. And what I mean by that is the producer starts out with the original idea, puts together the whole team, so it starts out with the idea, in... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Skooter, his wife of sixty years, as she accompanied him on work-related trips to foreign countries. A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry by David H. Gaylin (MBA 1979) (Business Expert Press) At their best, the performing arts represent the height of human View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

India, Brazil, and other developing nations shook off decades of economic stagnation to achieve remarkable growth. Concurrently, world trade advanced to the point that capital and products now flow freely around the globe. All these changes powered an explosion in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

"green" and competitive. In the September-October 1995 Harvard Business Review, Porter (with coauthor Claas van der Linde) argues that by creatively and proactively attending to environmental exigencies, companies are likely not only to... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

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