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George Westinghouse
Westinghouse helped to revolutionize the power industry with his electric company. A prolific inventor, Westinghouse figured out a way to adapt Europe’s alternating current technology to American needs,... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Dan Bricklin Classroom, Aldrich Hall 108 | About
technology entrepreneur, has been an active part of the computing industry continually since the 1970s. Upon graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bricklin worked for Digital Equipment Corporation until 1976, when he... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path Getting Unstuck offers leaders tools to manage their own careers, and help their employees move forward. In Getting Unstuck, business psychologist and Senior Fellow and Faculty Advisor... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 Aug 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters
industrial districts, business groups, business culture, business education, skills training, accounting and information systems, design, and engineering. Historical knowledge helps us to truly understand business, but the growing... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo
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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details
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Career Journey | MBA
team at HBS helps students realize their unique career visions. Whether one knows exactly what they want to do or are still exploring possibilities, CPD is there to guide each student every step of the way with personalized career tools... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
greatest success factor: disciplined leadership. The authors relate the stories of executives who have successfully broken through the barriers of growth to identify what they all have in common. They supplement these findings with decades of View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances. The playing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details
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Consumer goods: market research
Individual reports include analysis of drivers of the industry, industry risk, market data and segments, competitors and industry performance. SimplyMap Is a mapping tool for... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
economies where this shift has taken place before — such as the Asian Tigers — it was generally associated with lower growth since relying on endogenous progression of domestic demand is not as powerful as relying on an exogenous inflow... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
government's regulatory efforts to increase shareholder power at the board level following the recent financial crisis. To help answer that question, three Harvard Business School professors performed a natural experiment made possible by... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Dec 2018
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An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
different lessons from David Crane, formerly CEO of NRG, and Paul Polman of Unilever. Chan, of Citigroup, spoke of the enormous potential and necessity of greening every industry and called for taking personal responsibility--even if just... View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Peru
Data Tool to download specific indicators of interest, including indicators relating to consumer consumption, income, demographics, etc. Peru EIU Country Report (PDF) Oxford Business Group Country Reports Useful for: in-depth analysis of... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
experience with innovative products they feel good about buying. europe Our ambition is to help farmers become more profitable via a platform that gives them tools and access to information and insights about farming practices, markets,... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
A self-discovery journey
in the job search, and what begins as a list of quirky exercises in which one needs to leave skepticism aside becomes a useful tool to define priorities. The self-dialogue gradually converges to define a much more tangible set of themes... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
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HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
much speculation lately about the trend of well-heeled investors making bets on the future of print media. Yet Esty says the power of this case rests more in its richness as a teaching tool than in its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
"I wanted to work in international development," says Ballou, whose fellowship through the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise supplemented her summer income. "I also had a wonderful opportunity at the World Bank, but the IRC gave me a chance to work directly with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Digging Deep
solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna