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- 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
- 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
- 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 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can innovation and creativity be managed? Where do View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
new book, Leading Change, Kotter, one of the world's foremost experts on leadership, examines the efforts of more than one hundred companies as they attempt to make themselves stronger competitors. He identifies the most common mistakes... 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
- 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
- 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 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
pressure kills creativity, and others say that they do their most creative work when they are under serious time constraints. But our data indicates that the relationship is more nuanced. In the workplaces we studied, there were two... 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
- Profile
Ann Chao
In her previous HBS profile, Ann Chao, MBA 2013, said she hoped to be one of those people who "can bridge the gap between creativity and business." She didn’t waste time. "After graduation," Ann says, "I didn’t... 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 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
of thinking about complex choices. They suggest that the decision-maker start by probing his or her objectives (including interests, fears, and aspirations) and use these reflections to help generate creative alternatives for evaluation.... View Details
- 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
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
actually hinder the most important part of problem-solving: actually solving the problem. Research by Ethan Bernstein and colleagues. The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs (34,436) David Yoffie and Michael Cusumano find 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
- 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
- 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
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
among lenders, investors, suppliers, employees, and so on. Recently this perspective has again been confirmed by Amar Bhidé's systematic study of the "bootstrap" entrepreneur. Schumpeter himself associated entrepreneurship with innovation. Schumpeter defined... View Details