Imagination - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2012
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Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage

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Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

these companies use these techniques effectively? The use of scientific advances requires the imaginative translation of scientific findings into effective practice in the marketplace.— Gerald Zaltman A: There are several companies that... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

09 Apr 2024
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Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

the day by taking a long shower, imagining work anxiety swirling down the drain with the suds. Interestingly, studies show that when anxiety creeps in, it’s not effective to tell yourself or others to calm down. Doing so often creates... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

August 2019 (Revised October 2019)
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Systems Design West

By: Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Jenn Braus (HBS 2013) was halfway through the 90-day exclusivity period for her proposed acquisition of Systems Design West (SDW). She had completed her business and accounting due diligence. Just as she was about to ask her lawyer to begin drafting the purchase... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Price; Negotiation Offer; Decision Making

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26 Apr 2023
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

just as math education changed with the entrance of the calculator, our overall approach to education must adapt to AI technology. There might even be a sub-discipline of critical thinking, not of essays or novels, but of AI models. One can even View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

05 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

feedback. They found that in every case, people rated their desire for feedback higher when they were imagining themselves as the receiver than when they were imagining themselves as the giver. In fact, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

2025
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Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau

Your guide--using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics--to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and economics of space.

Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a... View Details

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Marketing - Faculty & Research

practical commitments of their responses (Experiment 4), and report not being able to actually imagine two perspectives simultaneously when reasoning about the scenario (Experiment 5). In short, we suggest that while people may make... View Details

22 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

training data from large language models. It’s still an open question how to reliably determine how much memorization a given LLM is doing of its training set, which I think could be a standard analysis that I imagine any company is going... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

23 Jul 2001
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Sam Walton: Great From the Start

future. Let's say that Walton's store eased from its 28 percent compound annual growth rate in sales down to 18 percent. In five years, the sales of that store would be about $572,000. Five percent of that is over $28,000. Not a bad income for sitting around and... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail

14 Nov 2023
What Do You Think?

Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?

how to stimulate tithing in your church, and even gift-giving that builds client retention. Having worked with leaders of every stripe, it has always seemed to me—and it may be my imagination working overtime—that leaders of organizations... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Nov 2021
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How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

Research Network, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2805602, accessed November 5, 2016. Satya Nadella with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone (Harper... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

possibilities of the business and economics of space. Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a revolution. A wave of companies led by gutsy entrepreneurs is unlocking opportunities that fire the View Details

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

in how to use your pain to lift other people up. You just learned that Oprah Winfrey was depressed about a movie. I bet you couldn't have thought-- I bet you never would have imagined that.” Brooks: Now witness what just happened. This is... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

with more data and analytics, executives we talked to said that leaders still need to adopt holistic thinking and stay open to the unexpected. They must learn to stretch their "own imagination and creativity" to envision what the future... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

26 Sep 2023
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Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

inferences on behalf of Black and Latinx and Native American software engineers.” “I could imagine a context where people use this argument even though they don't really mean it, because they know it's the more morally licensed or... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

27 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

both sides can start to see the wisdom of the other, that’s a victory.” “If you imagine that you’ll be able to behave with brusque disregard for people and continue to grow as a company—guess what? It all could get yanked out from under... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories

14 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer

01 Aug 2012
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