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Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Times’s 1934 review explained that this concerned “publicity of any image of any object, or symbol of any idea that is desired for any reason of business or politics.” 5 The idea of the photographer-as-reporter had assumed special significance in the 1930s in the View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
long-term nonfinancial performance. We use a novel dataset compiled by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and find that firms setting more difficult targets complete a higher percentage of such targets. We also find that this effect is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
average firm in his state cut back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to their working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" "It was an enormous surprise, at least to us, to learn...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential
numbers all day?’” Anderson recalls. She switched her focus to social entrepreneurship, working as an associate and then a project manager at New Profit, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit, venture philanthropy...
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- 12 Apr 2018
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Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get
look for projects – on the job or outside of it – that show a candidate’s ability to work on cross-disciplinary teams that require collaboration among people with different points of view.” The challenge is...
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- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
as much from failure as it does from success. Innovators learn from failure: Understanding what doesn't work may be at least as important as understanding what does, provided these failures are revealed early in a View Details
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by Wendy Guild
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Rohan Kekre
from consuming research to producing it. I have learned that I am most productive when I focus on one or two projects at a time and solicit feedback from others more frequently than I instinctively would...but I wouldn't have learned...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
with these messages? When I graduated from college, I went to live in a Mexican-American barrio for two years in southern New Mexico. An intern in the National Teacher Corps, I taught sixth grade and joined community projects to help...
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- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
leaders who managed to navigate their organizations through unpredictable social, political, and regulatory environments. To help fill this gap, Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project is building a rich library of...
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by Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2022
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Turning Point: Dream Weaver
career. That became clearer when I got to HBS. I learned that, in addition to being inspired by media, I liked to work on projects that had a beginning, middle, and end, which fit perfectly with the world of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
schools and Aspire Public Schools in California). NLNS is well on its way to its goal of training two thousand new leaders to serve some one million urban children. Burns became interested in education when she volunteered to tutor children at Chicago’s Cabrini-Green...
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- 26 Oct 2020
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A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
of the building and the MSO, describe how transformative this project has been for the region, and talk about the sustainability of the organization,” says Hung, who also serves on the board of the MSO. “He’s a tremendous leader and he’s...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
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Rediscovering America
way to make the world a better place. For instance, its World Community Grid project came about when IBM had a breakthrough in grid computing, which involves tying many computers together to boost computing power. The company took that...
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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
IFC started, more than 300 students have conducted volunteer work in the area (with small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and local towns), garnering unforgettable lessons in crisis leadership, entrepreneurship, and economic revival....
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- 04 Mar 2022
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Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy
Tell us a little about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Before applying to HBS, I was working at NextEra Energy, which is a large renewable energy company. I started on the renewable development team after I...
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- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
"actual." "People at the top of the hierarchy generally have a more positive view of an organization than the people in the middle and on the frontlines," Paine says. "The top of the organization doesn't really know what the frontlines are...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2003
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A Fast Start on Your New Job
technology) to get a new business, product or project off the ground. In a turnaround, the new leader takes on a unit or group that is recognized to be in trouble and works to get it back on track. Both...
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by Martha Lagace
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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting
organization that would capitalize on the current energy and passion around issues of racism in the US and make long-term change. The team transformed the Anti-Racism Fund GoFundMe project into a nonprofit organization, ARF, and then set...
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- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
Center at the University of Michigan. I could help the company with their surveys, and at the same time they wanted to understand the experiences of the first women that were entering the salesforce. I got to talk to a lot of people, doing data View Details
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by Robin J. Ely
- 01 Oct 1997
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Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Nations Operation in Somalia and was stationed in Mogadishu. A year after graduation, she accepted a six-month position as director of enterprise development in Tanzania with an international nongovernmental organization called TechnoServe. At TechnoServe, Lu View Details