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Site Credits - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Printing: Ram Printing, Inc. Lenders to the Exhibition: Cambridge University Press Denver Public Library, Western History Collection Getty Images Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division National Museum of American History,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean’s Award
Achievement program with ninth graders at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Matthew J. Turner (second from left), for his involvement in a broad range of activities, including his section, the Entrepreneurship Club, the African-American... View Details
- Portrait Project
Max Hodges
I helped teach dance to Cambridge public-school fifth-graders. Dance was the language I shared with these eleven-year-olds when we had little other common ground. Through the arts, they learned self-expression and self-confidence. The... View Details
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EconLit | Baker Library
dissertations, and working papers from the Cambridge University Press' Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. EconLit is produced by the American Economic Association. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote access available... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Closing the Opportunity Gap
and education, followed by six months of apprenticeship at major area companies. “Our model is based on high support and high expectations,” Chertavian told the Boston Herald (September 7, 2004). Chertavian, who runs the four-year-old program full-time, is excited... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Harvard’s Future in Allston
years, more land than the original Cambridge campus. Officials hope to begin limited development in Allston within the next several years. “We have, in our Allston properties, a historic opportunity to build our long-term academic... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)
By: Ruth Wageman and Teresa M. Amabile
When J. Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and team effectiveness. In both... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry; Cambridge
Wageman, Ruth, and Teresa M. Amabile. "J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-009, July 2013.
- September 2008
- Case
Pfizer Inc: Building an Innovation Center
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
The case describes Pfizer's efforts to build and run an innovation center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the center goes through different periods of leadership and strategic models, its relationship with the corporation and other research sites is explored. The case... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry; Cambridge
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Pfizer Inc: Building an Innovation Center." Harvard Business School Case 609-037, September 2008.
- December 2006 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc.
By: Robert F. Higgins and Virginia Fuller
In May 2005, Steve Bollinger was about to become president and chief operating officer of Pervasis Therapeutics, a small cell therapy start-up in Cambridge, Mass. If proven successful, Pervasis' product, Vascugel, could change the way vascular disease is treated and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Health Industry; Cambridge
Higgins, Robert F., and Virginia Fuller. "Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 807-026, December 2006. (Revised August 2008.)
- August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A)
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In 2002, Professor Nicholas Negroponte, a successful venture capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; Cambridge
Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A). Harvard Business School Case 508-024, August 2007. (Revised September 2008.)
- May 2006 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Codon Devices
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
In December 2005, 40-year-old John Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Intellectual Property; Governing and Advisory Boards; Genetics; Competitive Advantage; Science-Based Business; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Cambridge
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and David Kiron. "Codon Devices." Harvard Business School Case 806-198, May 2006. (Revised June 2006.)
- September 1999 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Strategic Deal Making at Millennium Pharmaceuticals
A small start-up in 1993, Millennium Pharmaceuticals was a name-brand biotechnology company by the end of 1998, with a market capitalization of $1.4 billion. The Cambridge-based company's growth strategy had relied heavily on building alliances for early-stage drug... View Details
Keywords: Alliances; Negotiation Deal; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Cambridge
Watkins, Michael D., and Sarah Matthews. "Strategic Deal Making at Millennium Pharmaceuticals." Harvard Business School Case 800-032, September 1999. (Revised September 2005.)
- February 1998 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
Winthrop Park Development
By: William J. Poorvu and Elizabeth McLoughlin
Describes a real estate development project in Cambridge, MA and evaluates the market, financial, and design issues in this $20 million mixed-use property. View Details
Poorvu, William J., and Elizabeth McLoughlin. "Winthrop Park Development." Harvard Business School Case 898-194, February 1998. (Revised May 2007.)
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A Separate Campus - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
were dispersed in classrooms around the Cambridge campus. HBS Professor Emeritus George Bates, who had been a 1925 graduate, remembered, “You had to hurry and you didn’t often stop to talk to people. We had one classroom on the top of the... View Details
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Entrepreneurship | MBA
develop and grow, including one-to-one advising, office hours with industry experts, workshops, and an incubator program. Harvard Innovation Labs HBS Alumni and Student Ventures Boston & Cambridge Students can take advantage of... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
co-worker; with 150, it can do better than a family member; and with 300, better than a spouse. But then came the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, when that firm got 250,000 Facebook users to voluntarily give them access to their personal data... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the river from the Anderson Bridge, would supply a foundation to carry the pipes and also allow easy access to and maintain a connection with the Cambridge campus. Work crews laid pipes in trenches dug out along View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
Row On
Thousands of rowers descend on Cambridge for the Head of the Charles Regatta; this year, the event took place October 23 and 24 after a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic. For a trio of 70-something men, the return was a bittersweet... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
Hunt was born in 1908 and raised on Staten Island, New York. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1930, completed the first year at Columbia Law School, and then studied economics for a term at King's College, View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, a post he held until just recently when his People’s Action Party suffered an election defeat in early May. After Yeo had completed his undergraduate studies in engineering at Cambridge... View Details