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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
magazines and the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. White, a renowned photographer and educator, encouraged his students to apply artistic principles to commercial work. At the same time, the notion of the photographer as reporter gained credence, particularly... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
priority in my mind. The interest became a calling that evolved into a huge opportunity. Twelve years ago, I founded a business that develops wind farms that generate clean, renewable energy. I am active in two markets, the UK and Israel... View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Kathleen L. McGinn : Winner of the 1991 State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award. 1986 James K. Sebenius : Winner of the 1986 Harold and Margaret Sprout Prize presented by International Studies Association for... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
advantage of changes in wind direction. Knowing the economic loss from downtime for each turbine on a wind farm allowed GE to determine a better maintenance schedule for turbines, figuring out which should be fixed first, and utilizing... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
membership peaks The AFL merges with the CIO: 15 million members Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Factory automation slashes jobs Service industry outpaces growth in manufacturing Civil Rights Act Equal Pay Act Unions concentrated in big businesses Formation of... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press, 2007). Lakshmi Ramarajan : Recipient of a 2008 State Farm Doctoral Dissertation Award for “Who Am I? The Influence of Multiple Intrapersonal Identities on... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
smallholder farmers capitalized on existing infrastructure to farm rubber around the edges of established groves, creating a rubber supply parallel to that produced by the foreign direct-invested estates. This increase in supply drove... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
Avery, it is essential for organizations diving into digital not to give in to the temptation to farm out blogging and social media to outside companies. "You have to be confident that whoever is speaking on behalf of the institution... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
and a well. He was born poor in a farming family that did a little bit of everything to get by. He spent his childhood cutting grass for sheep, walking to school barefoot on a muddy road, and skillfully finding new life for worn-down... View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive flashlight batteries are the primary sources of light. CAN FARMING SAVE THE PLANET?Don Wiviott (MBA 1984) is cofounder and partner of Sustainable View Details
Franklin P. Perdue
Under Perdue’s total-control leadership style, Perdue Farms grew from a small Maryland chicken farm into the United States’ third largest chicken producer with sales of almost $1 billion in the late 1980s.... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Alexander Legge
Legge, a forceful leader, successfully defended an anti-trust suit against the company in 1923, enabling it to retain its dominant position in the farming industry. One of his major contributions was in the area of standardization,... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Air Time
the world. (photo courtesy of Rich Wilson) Good morning, from the Pacific Ocean! #VG2016 #sitesALIVE Cited “Transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a big obstacle. I figured the world didn’t need... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
Otto H. Falk
As head of Allis-Chalmers, Falk introduced a product line of earth-moving and other heavy machinery, including tractors, which used the internal combustion engine. Falk was hugely successful in leading Allis-Chalmers into the competitive market for View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A game-changer for migrant students
Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) knows how hard life can be for migrant farm workers. He went from picking fruit with this family as a youth to creating a way for migrant farm workers to further their education.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
Above: photo by John Loomis About 80 percent of Frans Kok’s (MBA 1972) cut-your-own customers make the trek to the Middleburg Christmas Tree Farm in Philomont, Virginia, during the two weeks after Thanksgiving. After bumping down the... View Details
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George J. Mecherle
Leaving the family farm in 1918 to tend to his ailing spouse, Mecherle joined an automobile insurance company and quickly discovered that farmers were charged the same auto insurance rates as non-farmers even though they were consistently... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
At the other end of the supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance... View Details