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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

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01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

share that enthusiasm with a group that is also unlikely to fit the traditional insurance mold: people in their 20s, 30s, and even 40s. Terry, who worked in product management at Liberty Mutual for a dozen... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

24 Jan 2011
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Terror at the Taj

world's collective conscience. “Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees.” A new multimedia case by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé offers a flip side to the nightmarish scenes that unfolded in real time on... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations

25 Oct 2013
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Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

Keywords: by Richard L. Nolan; Education

30 Oct 2019
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How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. And, to top it off, you have little power or other resources to work with. This book shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

(JMR) , 2016) with Raghuram Iyengar and Martin Schleicher. Ayelet Israeli : Received the 2021 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching in recognition of outstanding work in the transition to online and hybrid teaching and learning. Ayelet... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

26 Jul 2022
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Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

restaurants. Their work has three major takeaways (no pun intended): First, online reviews are more revealing when it comes to issues that consumers directly experience—the presence of pests and food-handling practices—than... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

07 May 2007
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Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

If capitalism was the most influential single economic and social force of the 20th century (and continuing today), there is no better guide to understanding its power and complexity than famed economist Joseph Schumpeter, says Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Review of Economic Studies . Marco E. Tabellini : Recipient of the 2020 Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Authority Grant in the Future of Work program for “The Labor Market and Political Effects of Automation” with Sydnee... View Details

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

fund manager specializing in retail and believes he’s pretty good at that game too. He still thinks of his career success as a job—a fun job, to be sure—but work nonetheless. His real passion, he finds, is... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services

management systems. For this reason, it is important to follow these comprehensive step-by-step instructions, see https://www.stata.com/blog/wrds/Stata_WRDS.pdf . When setting up the connection, please keep a few things to keep in mind:... View Details

04 Jan 2022
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Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

place there I predict that the metaverse will soon be used to achieve business ends. It will be interesting to see what unforeseen applications arise in management for this fascinating new entertainment medium.” Do you agree? What do you... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Nov 2014
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CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

Working Papers Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization Authors: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Abstract Argentina privatized most public utilities during the 1990s but... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
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Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past

By: Rafael Di Tella, Vincent Pons, Sarah Mehta and David Lane

Over the past several decades, rapid growth in Chinese investment and trade has created for Africa a new development partner. China represents an alternative to U.S. and European nations whose past imperialism, resource avarice, and economic dictates—through the... View Details

Keywords: Copper; Imperialism; IMF; World Bank; ODA; Debt Relief; Growth and Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; History; Development Economics; China; Zambia; Africa

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Unraveling the Process of Creative Destruction: Complementary Assets and Incumbent Survival in the Typesetter Industry

By: M. Tripsas

When radical technological change transforms an industry established firms sometimes fail drastically and are displaced by new entrants, yet other times survive and prosper. Drawing upon an unusually rich data set that covers the technological and competitive... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Transformation; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; History; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Processes; Competency and Skills; Assets; Perspective; Disruptive Innovation