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- 12 Feb 2020
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Culture Shift at Big Blue
Getty Images Getty Images With the news of President and CEO Ginni Rometty’s retirement and the elevation of Arvind Krishna to replace her as chief executive, IBM simultaneously announced that Jim Whitehurst... View Details
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
A Culture of Innovation Photo: Edwin Land from “The Purpose of the Company,” employee handbook, 1945. Polaroid Corporation Administrative Records, b. I.384, f. 30. Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid, embraced two central concepts for his... View Details
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Introduction - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
They were the work of artists such as Margaret Bourke-White, Lewis Hine, and others, who produced highly stylized images meant to instill confidence in corporate America. Created in the years between the... View Details
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The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Chapter Images The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Message: Confidence in Corporate America Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility... View Details
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
postdoctoral fellow under Woodward. Working in a Harvard laboratory, the two succeeded in developing a synthetic form of the compound, which the military relied on to treat malaria. During the war, Polaroid made a foray into still photography with the production of a... View Details
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Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research, Harvard Business School, 1933 The thousands of images Ayres and Davenport received revealed that behind the product lay a corporate system driven by power, efficiency,... View Details
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Executive Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “The magic of image making is that the spectacularly thin layers — almost merely layers of concepts — evoke in... View Details
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
Adams, who was known for the technical and artistic quality of his images and for his masterful printing. Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, test photographs by Ansel Adams, January 1954, © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Polaroid View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Apr 2017
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Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) wants to change just about everything at GE, from its image as a slow-moving corporate behemoth, to the focus of its core businesses, to the location of its View Details
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Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Chapter Images The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Message: Confidence in Corporate America Business is essentially our civilization, for it is the essential characteristic of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
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The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
concerned investors, activists, and customers. The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires large publicly-listed companies in Europe to annually disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, starting in... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2010
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How Green Was My (Silicon) Valley
DOERR AND ADVISEE: From bits and bytes to batteries and biofuels. Saul Loeb/Afp/Getty Images “A boyish billionaire in glasses,” John Doerr (MBA ’76) began to shift his focus from bits and bytes to batteries and biofuels about four years... View Details
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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
the Boston Globe , and J. T. Sullivan, automotive editor and writer for the Boston Globe , solicited more than 2,000 photographs from automobile manufacturers. Companies provided images of plants, manufacturing activities, assembly lines,... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
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The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
restaurants, not to tell cities where to go to inspect, but it could be used for that purpose,” says Luca. Similarly, Google searches in different geographies could give policymakers key insight into what their citizens care about. Finally, private View Details
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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
gelatin silver print images taken by Margaret Bourke-White captures industrial settings during the early 19th century. Included are pictures of American factories, mines, foundries, and glassworks. Bourke-White was able to depict... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:... View Details
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Industrial Life Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
work of acclaimed Machine Age photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Lewis Hine, and others, who produced highly stylized images meant to instill confidence in corporate America. Researchers will find... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Baker Library Photo Exhibit
Bourke-White and Lewis Hine, were meant to instill confidence in corporate America. Photos in the exhibit are drawn from more than 2,100 photographs from 115 businesses that were gathered in the 1930s. The intent was to supplement HBS... View Details
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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library
Director’s Foreword Laura Linard Senior Director, Baker Library Special Collections and Archives September 2024 In 2006, the Polaroid Corporation generously donated its extensive corporate archives to Baker... View Details