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- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
over time and may be tempted to ape someone else's system, and so they will find it difficult to align different parts of the organization with shared priorities. As Corning, a leader in glass and materials science, has found, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
individual's behavior across different situations and over time (in the language of rational choice, character can be thought of as a stable system of preferences that informs the tradeoffs and choices an individual is likely to make in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
behind the camera.” Boston Globe , October 17, 1976. Full text available (Harvard users only) “Light Control: Polaroid filters make enemy targets easier to see.” Life 16, no. 6 (February 7, 1944). Full Text Available . Livesay, Harold C.... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Bailey notes, “I am also influenced by family members, by my mother, my children, and my grandparents. My mother was quietly creating experiences for me to make art when I was a child. She was my first art teacher and is, today, my most... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day on I focused my attention on... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
thrilling as that news is, huge challenges remain to make a meaningful dent in the transportation sector’s CO2 emissions. "I have cut the cord with gas guzzlers. I have two electric vehicles!"– Erika MyersErika Myers’ professional View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Foley. As consumers move away from the formal dining experience to more casual entertaining, Foley says that his company’s brand must preserve its aspirational quality while maintaining its relevance in people’s daily lives. “Luxury goods are so wrapped up in the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
his leadership team weighed that risk with the reward: the opportunity to prove the value of its mRNA platform, bring its first commercial vaccine to market three or four years faster than anticipated, and make history. As of August 31,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
of financial and social objectives warrants significant rethinking of organizational democracy’s merits compared both to hierarchy and to nondemocratic alternatives to hierarchy. In making this argument, we draw on some parallels with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
real-time connections with colleagues, but will prefer to maintain their at-home work lifestyle. I suggest managers put some structure in place to ensure that time in the office is optimized for face time. For example, make a team... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
solved for that as a nation.” Part of the problem, Bonaparte says, is marketing: “We have to rebrand security.” The trick is not just selling it as cool and exciting, but making that message appeal to a broader audience. “Security is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“Economic development became my passion. I never really imagined going to business school — I visited HBS almost on a lark. But after walking around the campus and talking to students who were interested in development issues and in business as a path to View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first generation of economic forecasters... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
filled, even the blare of rush-hour traffic clogging the central square of Athens out front—is the sound of Greece’s GDP on the move. It’s the ring of an economy finally looking up. “This place would have been empty in 2015,” says Dimos Arhodidis (PhDBE 1998), looking... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc parking lot, spotted with broken... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
turned 16, Moore hatched an idea: He would hike to Katahdin, 35 miles away, by himself. He planned carefully, making lists of provisions and collecting rough maps of the untracked land, which would later become the last miles of the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age. The book weaves together insights from economics, leadership studies, history, geopolitics, and national security to make a case for strategic independence and improved leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
declined. As the twenty-first century unfolded, many families found themselves caught between the rock of expanded consumption and the hard place of seemingly static incomes. And to make matters thornier, the costs of some of the most... View Details