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  • 2022
  • Article

Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas

By: Goran Calic, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis and Sébastien Hélie
While knowledge management researchers acknowledge that individuals transition from generation to implementation of ideas, these transitions are not fully understood. The current article focuses on idea elaboration – defined as the transition of an idea from an... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Innovation and Invention; Learning
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    Stuti Agarwal

    Stuti is a PhD student in Consumer Behavior at Harvard Business School. She completed her Bachelors in Economics and Psychology from Boston University in 2019 and went on to complete her MPS in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University in 2020. She... View Details
    • 29 Nov 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

    issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English translation. Baker Library at View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 09 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

    productive workers during Kelleher's tenure were motivated by a vibrant working atmosphere, good wages, profit sharing, and the knowledge that no employees had ever been laid... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Varied Experience, Team Familiarity, and Learning: The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety

    By: Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
    Prior work examining the relationship of varied experience (i.e., the concurrent completion of multiple tasks) and learning by groups finds inconsistent results. We hypothesize that team familiarity, i.e, individuals' prior shared work experience, may help explain this... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Social Psychology; Familiarity
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    • 23 May 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

    Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Unsplash/Pedro Marroquin View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

    At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 19 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

    The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"? Professor Michel Anteby, who studies how meaning is built at View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
    • 2015
    • Published Proceedings

    Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings of the Michigan Meeting, May 2015

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman, Kirsti Ashworth, Chase Dwelle, Peter Goldberg, Andrew Henderson, Louis Merlin, Yulia Muzyrya, Norma-Jean Simon, Veronica Taylor, Corinne Weisheit and Sarah Wilson
    What is the role of the academic scholar within the discussions of the global challenges that are relevant to society, such as sustainability, health care, gun control, fiscal policy, and international affairs? How do scholars engage in a world in which knowledge is... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Social Issues; Knowledge Sharing; Communication Strategy
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    • 26 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

    Digital record-keeping is slowly but inevitably replacing paper records everywhere from the pilot's cockpit to the registry of motor vehicles. But if implemented without proper consideration of how work gets done, the results can make... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Game On

    It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
    • 18 Jul 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

    non-fungible tokens. This article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. You Might Also Like: Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology
    • 04 Feb 2014
    • What Do You Think?

    Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

    people feel they can't afford." That is why, she continued, it is so important to have real friends with good memory who can be our sounding boards. "Listening to others works better if you can show empathy and put yourself in the other... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 12 Sep 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

    In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Jan 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: January 5

    graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 30 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

    their products and downplay risks, fearing that any negative sentiment might hurt demand. But research led by Ryan W. Buell, a professor in the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, and doctoral... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 15 Mar 2017
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

    This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
    • 29 Dec 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

    2014 is simple but powerful—maybe the best way to improve your work performance is to devote time to reflecting on your actions. Now is also your chance to tell Working View Details
    • 01 Nov 1999
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

    Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive success. Q: What led the two of... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 14 Mar 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

    students learn how to diagnose and properly treat patients, they also confront problems of supply management, operations design, and communications. “As you are working on clinical skills that involve interacting with patients,” Huckman... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health