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- 2018
- Working Paper
What Is Your Problem? The Importance of ‘Problem Storming’ for Crossing Knowledge Boundaries
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf
In this study, I focus on the emergent processes and practices enacted when using crowdsourcing to solve R&D problems that experts are challenged with. While the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on the online process, this study looks at the full process that takes...
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- 19 Jun 2013
- News
How Institutional Theorists Can Help Solve Big Business Problems
- 08 Dec 2016
- News
A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning
- 18 Apr 2014
- News
Helping developing countries learn how to solve their problems
Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), director of the Global Strategy Advisory of Citi, sees her role as showing developing countries solutions to their problems. (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Apr 1995
- Conference Presentation
Exploratory Analysis of the Creative Process in Problem Solving
By: J. Ruscio, Teresa M. Amabile and D. Whitney
- 08 Jun 2012
- News
Shared Value: How Corporations Profit from Solving Social Problems
- 2021
- Book
We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems
By: Mitchell Weiss
The huge public challenges we face are daunting. At the same time, many of us have come to accept the notion that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges—it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Not so. Entrepreneurial savvy in government is growing,...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Government Administration;
Government and Politics;
Technological Innovation;
Problems and Challenges;
Innovation Leadership;
Public Administration Industry;
Technology Industry
Weiss, Mitchell. We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- September 13, 2023
- Article
The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker
By: Nitin Nohria
Chief executives are responsible for guiding corporations, so the role inevitably requires making many decisions. But people overestimate the level of personal involvement CEOs have in this process. Instead of making decisions, CEOs tend to shape decisions, by...
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Keywords:
Problem Solving;
Delegation;
Leadership Style;
Decision Making;
Time Management;
Power and Influence
Nohria, Nitin. "The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 13, 2023).
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 18 Jan 2021
- News
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
- 2009
- Working Paper
Opening Up or Shutting Down? The Effects of Multiple Identities on Problem Solving
Across three studies, I investigate the distinct effects of multiple identity conflict and enhancement within people on two crucial aspects of resolving problems with others: integrative behavior and openness. The results of two studies support the hypotheses that...
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- 10 Dec 2012
- News
How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Solve the World's Problems
- 2018
- Chapter
An Integrated Model of Dynamic Problem Solving within Organizational Constraints
By: Johnathan R. Cromwell, Teresa M. Amabile and Jean-François Harvey
Book Abstract: Rapid technological change, global competition, and economic uncertainty have all contributed to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a...
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Cromwell, Johnathan R., Teresa M. Amabile, and Jean-François Harvey. "An Integrated Model of Dynamic Problem Solving within Organizational Constraints." In Individual Creativity in the Workplace, edited by Roni Reiter-Palmon, Victoria Kennel, and James C. Kaufman. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2018.
- 2002
- Article
Managing Routine Exceptions: A Model of Nurse Problem Solving Behavior
By: A. L. Tucker and Amy C. Edmondson
- January 16, 2020
- Article
How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems
By: Mark R. Kramer, Marc W. Pfitzer and Helge Mahne
The corporate social conscience will soon be on full display in Davos, Switzerland, where global leaders from business, government, and civil society will assemble on January 21 for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be...
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Keywords:
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Global Range;
Partners and Partnerships;
Strategy
Kramer, Mark R., Marc W. Pfitzer, and Helge Mahne. "How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (January 16, 2020).
- 10 Dec 2012
- News
How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Solve the World’s Problems
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems
- November 25, 2016
- Article
How to Tell If Machine Learning Can Solve Your Business Problem
By: Anastassia Fedyk
Fedyk, Anastassia. "How to Tell If Machine Learning Can Solve Your Business Problem." Harvard Business Review (website) (November 25, 2016).