Bill Fischer has been hunting for ideas for a long time, in a variety of places.

FORBES: Understanding The Engine Of Innovation: 'The Idea Hunter'

Management at Boston College and coauthor, with Bill Fischer, of The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen (Jossey-Bass), written with journalist William Bole.

FORBES: When 450,000 People Can't be Wrong

Andy Boynton is Dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and coauthor, with Bill Fischer, of The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen (Jossey-Bass), written with William Bole.

FORBES: Racking Up Ideas, on the Cliff

Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier Has Changed the Way Big Companies Transform (Wiley, 2013) by Bill Fischer, Umberto Lago and Fang Liu, explains how CEO Zhang Ruimin moved the Haier Group from the Traditional Economy to the Creative Economy.

FORBES: The Creative Economy: Can Industrial Giants Reinvent Themselves?

Andy Boynton is Dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and coauthor, with Bill Fischer, of The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen(Jossey-Bass), written with journalist William Bole.

FORBES: How to Neutralize Hierarchy: Take a Tip From Sitcom Writers

At Goldman he rose to the level of Managing Director and co-invented the tool for pricing options on Treasury bonds with Goldman colleagues Bill Toy and the late Fischer Black, of Black-Scholes formula fame.

FORBES: A Review of Emanuel Derman's New Book: Models.Behaving.Badly.