Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small

Barry Nalebuff,Ian Ayres

ISBN 10: 1591391539 / ISBN 13: 9781591391531

Published by Harvard Business School Press, USA, 2003

About this Item

238 pages. cocked spine, wear & tears to dj some marks, wear, foxing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
• Publisher: Harvard Business School Press, USA
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591391539
• ISBN 13: 9781591391531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business

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Synopsis

Robert F. Kennedy challenged us to "dream of things that never were and
say, Why not?"

Why Not? is a primer for fresh business thinking, for problem solving with a purpose, for bringing the world a few steps closer to the way it should be. Idealistic? Yes. Unrealistic? No.

Authors Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres have spent their careers asking questions, solving problems, and bringing fresh ideas to market-from insurance that protects against a decline in your home's value to Honest Tea, bottled iced tea that actually tastes like tea. Illustrated with examples from every aspect of life, this book offers simple techniques for generating ingenious solutions to existing problems, and for applying existing solutions to new problems.

In the spirit of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking, Why Not?will help you take the things we all see, every day, and think about them in a new way. Why not have telemarketers pay you for your time when they call? Why not sell a mortgage that automatically refinances when interest rates drop? Why not organize a "buycott" rather than a boycott? Why Not? will provoke you into finding new business opportunities using everyday ingenuity. Great ideas are waiting. Why not be the one to discover them?

About the Author

Barry Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management, and coauthor of Co-opetition and Thinking Strategically. Ian Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School.