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- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
Fans of the television show Mad Men are well acquainted with the mystique of the advertising business, circa 1960s, where relationships were consummated over martinis and campaigns fashioned through the wizardry of creative director Don... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
elements are added.” Both businesses require vision and a healthy appetite for risk. Another similarity is permits, budgets, and a cast of people who come together to work on a common project for two or three years. Attracting a... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Seeing glass in a new light
Rao Mulpuri (AMP 171, 2006) wants to transform the building industry by disrupting a common product: glass. View Dynamic Glass brings smart windows to buildings, and is gaining rapid adoption in North America—the California-based company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Students Negotiate a Victory
as a team. “We trusted each other 100 percent,” Kapadia told the Harbus. “I was confident that Patrick would always say the right thing, and I think he felt that way as well.” In the end, the HBS team (representing airline management) struck a View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
was something that I think he maintained all his life, and I think that as a result that generated an environment which attracted creative and interesting people from a whole variety of disciplines, rather than just science." 39 Polaroid... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
HBS research project, and he referred me to a job in distribution, before I was able to move into production. Unfortunately, Hollywood studios have much in common with politics, and after 13 films, I was swept away as part of a regime... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
business, obtaining venture capital, managing growth, handling bankruptcy, and starting a nonprofit venture. The pieces focus on the skills and abilities one must master to fill the entrepreneurial role, from creativity and innovation to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer (Harvard Business Review Press) The best managers build a group of employees who have great inner work lives:... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Treating environmental issues as business problems sounds straightforward, but it's not easy. The following assumptions, all of which are common in business thinking, make it difficult to reframe the issues. Environmental problems are,... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- Portrait Project
Karibu Nyaggah
lenses. On one trip, I met Lilly, a six-year-old orphan, who personified life itself with her radiant smile. For the lack of school fees amounting to the price of a Big Mac, she was denied one of life's most basic opportunities — education. Lilly's story is all too... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
“the sound of dog food glopping out of a can.” (Buy a of copy of his book, MouthSounds, if you want to know more.) I’ve long enjoyed Fred’s creative ability to make me smile. I put him in a special category of entertaining HBSers,... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Manufacturing commons are "webs of technological knowhow, operational capabilities, and specialized skills" that underlie many industries, universities, and the government. Also, see Professor Jim Heskett's conversation with his readers... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest Authors:F. Gino and D. Ariely Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract Creativity is a common aspiration for individuals,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. With this graceful, authoritative biography, McCraw, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, has all but ensured that a seminal but relatively uncelebrated twentieth-century visionary... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
doubled effort within the competitive regime and increased effort by roughly half in the cooperative regime, while accounting for incentives. Our experimental approach and results indicate the importance of accounting for worker preferences in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
common in negotiations and that many negotiators prefer to palter than to lie by commission. Paltering, however, may promote conflict fueled by self-serving interpretations; palterers focus on the veracity of their statements (“I told the... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
to platform leadership change that does not rely on Schumpeterian creative destruction: platform envelopment. By leveraging common components and shared user relationships, one platform provider can move... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers
technology's impact on their business, the entire customer experience, and leading innovation within their enterprises, not simply following a course set by their IT department. "Madison Avenue meets MIT" and "Revenge of the Nerds" are View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
class; structuring asset classes and adding value-oriented or other opportunistic “tilts”; measuring and managing risks, avoiding common mistakes, and more. The Soul of a Patient: Lessons in Healing for Harvard Medical Students edited by... View Details