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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

After one minute, he peeled away an 8-by-10-inch print from the negative. A sequence of photographs captured the tense moments as Land posed for his portrait, followed by his visible relief when the first public demonstration of instant... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these transformations firsthand, from roles in the private, nonprofit, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

and wealth creation. Though prohibited by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, redlining had lasting implications—as did related real estate practices such as blockbusting, which encouraged white flight by playing on fears of racial integration,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

example, key government officials can serve as mega-influencers by promoting their willingness to be immunized through traditional and digital media. Throughout the history of vaccines efforts, presidents, prime ministers, and leading health authorities have View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

14 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices in physical stores where most retail transactions occur. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of prices simultaneously collected from the websites and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

& Kapoor, 2010; Iansiti & Levien, 2004; von Hippel, 1988). Ecosystems generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their connection with an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

former MTV VJ) Sian-Pierre Regis, founder of the online publication Swagger and a frequent pop culture contributor to CNN Headline News and Men’s Journal; Michelle Goldman, a partner at the venture capital firm Ignition Partners, who sits... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

certainly controversial, but political pundits rarely ask a key question: Do they actually work? A new research paper reaches a surprising conclusion: These rules don't impact voter fraud or public confidence, nor do they dampen... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of reducing emissions 50 percent by 2030. At a Council on Foreign View Details

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MBA Program at Harvard Business School - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

courses, and to finish." 22 018, 118 HBS made a concerted effort to publicize that the school had opened its doors to women, a fact women in undergraduate studies or the workplace did not necessarily know, and that many business... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Honored as The Civic Tech Innovator of the Year in 2015 by Civic Tech Challenge and Generation Citizen. Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Named one of Boston's 50 Most Powerful... View Details

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

January to August using court records through the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) databases. PACER records bankruptcy filings within 24 hours and FJC keeps historical data.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

work it. Let's give ourselves a set time period and work really hard at how we change that. Now, that's not something I did, but being able to help identify the people who can help change public opinion, in this case, within the company... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

possibility—and I've heard more rumblings of this than I used to from people inside the sector—that there's a bit of an [investment] bubble, and people have gotten a little bit ahead of themselves on some of this stuff.” If the bankrollers or the View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52673 Harvard Business School Case 517-050 Beingmate Founded in 2002, Hangzhou, China–based Beingmate was a major producer of infant formula and related products in the high-demand Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

such, from the perspective of the trader, the market works much like any other stock exchange. Movies have an initial public offering once the project first takes shape, and traders can buy, sell, cover, and short stocks just as they can... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

many new cases arrive at the same time, companies could be much less well-served by the bankruptcy reorganization process.” What makes the current financial crisis unique is that the economic harm caused by forced shutdowns is being felt by broad swaths of the economy... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

Videos and transcripts have been used both for teaching and scholarly research purposes. Please see the CEM case collection and recent publications for examples on how this material has been used. They have also formed the basis of... View Details

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