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- 11 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion
In early May, I embarked on a journey to Seoul, South Korea, accompanied by 70 fellow Harvard Business School classmates. Our purpose? To culminate our first-year studies through the FIELD Global Immersion program. Throughout this transformative experience, I... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
mineralize CO2 and essentially turn it into rock. Usually, they are found deep under the ocean, but in Oman and a few other places in the world they have been pushed up to the surface. The friend who sent me that article was setting up a... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
as glare. Land found that placing one polarizing filter over another at a right angle halted all light vibrations. Moving the second filter back and forth created variable vibrations of light. In 1929, with Donald L. Brown, a patent... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
existing solutions, proceeds to dissemination of founding stories that can shift with a change in logics, and culminates in rejection of the labels that audiences try to apply to their activities and products. By contrast, unsuccessful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Questions By: Brooks, Alison Wood, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
beyond a few photos on the course website, but several gadget aficionado blogs found the photos and linked to them. The buzz went viral, eventually garnering Clocky a photo on the front page of the L.A. Times, a mention in Jay Leno's... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
current career plans in any way? This summer, I interned at CDC Group, the oldest impact investor in Africa and South Asia, and at EquaLife Capital, an East African investment fund. I found the role of value creation in investing to be... View Details
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
IPO and WRH's Dilemma Show Hide Details Concepts Introduction Three Types of Innovation Some Finer Details About Disruption WR Hambrecht and the Google IPO Applying Innovation and Disruption to You Featured Exercises Team Discussion:... View Details
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
Economics; Steven J. Davis of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business; and Lightcast Chief Economist Bledi Taska. Crunching the ‘WHAM’ algorithm To parse where and how people are working remotely, the researchers teamed with... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
their way up the mountain. After the two days testing, and constant interactive feedback, the design team returned to headquarters and immediately debriefed and extracted key learnings. Prototypes were quickly developed and sent to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
M. Perkins, and Mark Weick Publication: Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 24, no. 2 (spring 2012) Abstract Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second‐largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Russia to build a textile business. "Half the workers in this country are employed in small businesses. We need to make sure they have the tools to grow their companies, create stable jobs, and move our economy forward." Mills serves as the 23rd administrator of the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
content, psychometric validity, and relationships to outcomes of interest. Data extraction. We identified relevant articles using the search terms team, teamwork, work groups, or collaboration, in combination with survey or questionnaire. Principal findings. We View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
annual salary offer of $115,000 is unfair on its own. They might be perfectly happy with that salary if it weren't for the information that it's below average." And it's not just a matter of money. In several studies of social comparison in the workplace, Larkin has... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Tethys Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview The Tethys Mos aic Morgan Hall, Harvard Business School Founded in 300 BCE, the Syrian city Antioch-on-the-Orontes (in modern Turkey) was a major center and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics. The data that Bancel saw that evening were shocking. The numbers suggested Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat diseases—one that promised to change the medical world, resulting in cures for... View Details
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
and content on DocSend’s platform, which is used daily by organizations across a variety of sales contexts. The result is empirical data and a good starting point for examining core aspects of any content marketing initiative. The authors View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
hand-labeled six different types of questions: introductory, mirror, full-switch, partial-switch, follow-up, and rhetorical questions. Forty-four percent of the questions—more than any other type—were follow-ups. Based on the hand-labeled question types, the research... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student
planning and operations roles at Blue Apron, Peloton, and Burrow. Ash is also an investment partner at The MBA Fund, an early-stage fund that backs student and alumni founders from Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania. I have View Details
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Howard E. Cox | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Cox, HBS 1969, started his career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the summer of 1968 and continued there through 1971. Part of a small team assigned to help extricate the United States from the war in Vietnam, Howard realized... View Details