Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving | Srikant M. Datar

​About The Session:

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How do you adjust your problem-solving approach to find more creative solutions? How do you win support for novel ideas and communicate their value to others? How do you manage and guide teams through the innovation process? Organizations worldwide struggle with these questions. The most successful ones embrace a process based on empathy and reflection, not only in how they observe users but also in how they interact and create a supportive but rigorous culture.

In this webinar, Dean Srikant Datar discusses how to overcome cognitive fixedness—the state of mind that prevents us from noticing exciting opportunities—and how to build a sustainable innovation culture that supports creative, long-term planning.
Innovation is satisfying and exciting work, but it is also demanding.

Great innovation leaders turn failure into a learning opportunity. Yet, they also rigorously evaluate which failures require celebration and learning—and which require a new approach

​About The Speaker:

​Srikant M. Datar is the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School, where he has served on the faculty since 1996. Before joining the HBS faculty he held appointments at both Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University. Datar studies cost management and management control, strategy implementation, governance, and, more recently, management education, design thinking, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has taught MBA and executive education classes in design thinking, innovation, big data, and strategy implementation, and HBS Online soon will release his course on design thinking. His work has appeared in journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Management Science. He is a co-author of Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (Prentice-Hall) and of Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press).

​Note for Participants:

1. Certificate of Participation will be sent via email to attendees based on details provided in the webinar registration form.
2. Only attendees who will attend the whole Webinar on Zoom will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Participation.