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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
hues from which to choose. The New York Times enthused: “The feeling for line and color has extended to the most common of everyday tools. . . . The enormously useful fountain-pen until recently was content...
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
currencies now. Daniel Dietzel CEO of Aphrodite at Aphrodite Gain the skills and knowledge needed to grow your business internationally and more effectively manage global teams. The course has given me the confidence to know that my...
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- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
experience for me. In college I studied computer science, and those classes usually don’t have much participation—just a lecture and individual exercises to complete. All of my previous schooling was in Israel, so I was used to a learning...
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- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist
Francisco. She hopes that sharing her story will encourage everyone (regardless of background or prior experience) to make full use of the resources at HBS to explore and develop their interest in venture capital and entrepreneurship, as...
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- 23 Mar 2022
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Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
them to deliver play-based exercises and quizzes to parents and children several times a week. Parents upload photos and videos of the results, and teachers respond with gamified feedback like smiley face–based report cards. “We work with...
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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
With more people working remotely right now, many of us have experienced a videoconference interrupted by barking dogs or hungry kids demanding snacks, punctuated, perhaps, by cabinet doors slamming and ice makers grinding in the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
as they are currently rather than as they were when they were younger. Third, because families generally fear conflict, they avoid certain conversations (that may be useful or necessary in a negotiation) for fear it will touch on a...
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by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
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Dean Nitin Nohria | About
Dean Nitin Nohria 2010–2020 As dean, Nitin Nohria established five strategic priorities to guide the School: innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration with the University. Highlights from his time...
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- 29 Oct 2020
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Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations involved in the Ebola relief effort. I realized my long-term response needed to help prevent communities in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa from falling deeper into poverty every...
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- 14 Jun 2022
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Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association
and Hillel to bringing back alumni for speaking and networking opportunities to connecting with prospective students alongside the admissions team, we recognize the strengthening effect that interactions with the broader Jewish community can have on View Details
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts to revive high value-added...
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- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
as family, leisure, community, or even time for yourself and your tennis game. The advice is too simple and logical, he complained, and there is a "wonderful stress" on perfection and having it all. In his talk, titled...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
epidemic of business scandals would be to speak of a widespread failure among CEOs and other senior executives (along with board members, auditors, financial analysts, and others) to uphold their professional obligations. To speak of the...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
humanity,” it boldly and accurately captures that the challenge ahead of us is not just about carbon emissions, but for the future of our businesses, our economy, our people and our planet. Now is the time...
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
crystals, called herapathite, were too small and expensive to create a useful material. Land's breakthrough came in 1928 when he discovered that with a magnetic field he could align microscopic crystals suspended with a lacquer solution...
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- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
How "sleepy" or "awake" are you when it comes to your stock portfolio? If you're like most people, you probably don't spend a great deal of time monitoring your investments. So when another company View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself
BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running...
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- 07 Jun 2021
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The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant
admission to a school like Harvard was a pursuit far above my head, something I had seen on television but not so much in my neighborhood. I have always envisioned myself as a leader in the business world, with hopes of not just leading an organization, but View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
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Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
type of person in the first place. As Richard Fairbanks, CEO of Capital One, is fond of saying, "At most companies, people spend 2 percent of their time recruiting and 75 percent managing their...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has hit many companies hard—some to the point of considering bankruptcy—Antill’s research findings may help business leaders make important decisions to avoid the high price of liquidation and choose a...
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by Rachel Layne