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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

Spirituality, faith, and religion play a crucial role in many people’s lives. They undergird convictions about right and wrong, help people to persevere through great hardship, inform people’s self-understanding and meaning-making, and View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

direction. He then learned that by coating a thin sheet of plastic with microscopic crystals, he could stretch and align the crystals before the material dried. This synthetic polarizing material could be... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2015
  • News

Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job

A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service... View Details
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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

all-inclusive quality of trade catalogs, trade cards offered a more intimate presentation with which companies could announce their line of business and products. Produced in a variety of shapes and sizes, trade cards generally measured 2... View Details
  • 2010
  • Casebook

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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  • 07 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 11 Jan 2013
  • News

Can Acting in Love Help You Stay in Love?

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Tony Cragg Over the Earth 2014 | About

investigates the complex internal formal constructions and geometries that give rise to exterior forms. In Over the Earth , Cragg explores not only nature and the forces of... View Details
  • July 2015 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail

By: Das Narayandas, Joshua D. Margolis and Ryan Raffaelli
In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Organizational Behavior Modification; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Competition; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

and innovation, says Jim Heskett. What changes will allow managers to add value to the creative process? What do YOU think? What Makes a Good Leader? (25,360) Leadership comes in many shapes and sizes, and... View Details
  • 06 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

the economy at large absorb adverse economic shocks? Or does the local population decline, stuck in economic decay? The answers to those questions are vital for economists,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing
  • December 2011
  • Article

Globalization and Beauty: A Historical and Firm Perspective

By: G. Jones
This paper uses the beauty industry to explore the impact of globalization over the very long run. As the first wave of modern globalization started in the nineteenth century, there began a massive homogenization of beauty ideals around the world that has, to some... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Business Ventures; Trends; Societal Protocols; Value; Brands and Branding; Perception; Entrepreneurship; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • 04 Jan 2013
  • News

B-school curriculum is now covering legal, ethical issues too

  • 02 Aug 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

Summing Up Are we approaching a "millennial watershed" in management? The next generation of managers, comprising many "millennials," will be more adept at managing in a changing, global, and networked environment.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Bibliography - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844 . Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1997. Fairbank, John King, Ernest R. May, and Alfred D. Chandler. America’s China Trade in Historical Perspective: The... View Details

    Letian Zhang

    Letian (LT) Zhang is an assistant professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit. He teaches the Leadership course in the MBA required curriculum.

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    • 15 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Remembering Alfred Chandler

    great-grandfather, the business editor and analyst Henry Varnum Poor, to 2 recent volumes, published while he was in his 80s: Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Oct 30 2019
    • Testimonial

    Leading Change in Real Estate

    • 01 Jun 1999
    • News

    A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

    piece of jewelry shaped like one of Dennis Rodman's tattoos? If it's a higher-priced, hard-to-find product or service, chances are you'll soon be able to find it at www.buyerweb.com, the site for a new... View Details
    Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
    • 12 Jul 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

    corporate disclosures overseen by the SEC. The benefits of national comparisons are compelling and will unleash a tidal wave of improvements in quality and efficiency. An... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health