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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer

University, where he helped to develop a business program by instituting a marketing department, advising business and marketing clubs, and organizing the school's Small... View Details

07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

companies. They also boast a rising labor force that’s among the strongest in the country, while the workforces of other states are dwindling. Health care in the area is strong, highlighted by the Mayo Clinic, and the education system is... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

rates is the highest priority in higher education. A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing. Analyses by labor economists, as well as a survey commissioned by the Pew Research... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

Alfred N. Steele

Arriving at Pepsi after defecting from an alienating position at Coca-Cola, Steele immediately began a highly involved rehabilitation process at the battered soft drink maker. Steele installed a more autonomous management structure, View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

Critics have denounced this proposal as yet another government intrusion into the market and a futile attempt to "pick winners." What these critics ignore is that the US government has a long history of investing in research... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

Fair Competition

American Institute for the History of Pharmacy]. In the paper I explore how pharmacist trade associations coordinated a state-wide movement in California to control retail marketing and pricing. Prior to the... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Ask the Expert: On the Fly

free-market competition. While market liberalization internationally is still evolving, the consumer benefits of the competitive marketplace are pretty compelling. Putting any one carrier in charge of the infrastructure that forms the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

their nations' labor force, or that some countries have infant mortality rates more than ten times our own. Indeed, access to a computer, well enough access to sanitation or a telephone, can be very limited around the world. The lists go... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

It draws from previous work by Urde (an associate professor at the Lund University School of Economics and Management in Lund, Sweden), John Balmer (a marketing professor at Brunel University in London) and Greyser. In 2007, the three... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2014
News

Roads to Recovery

sector, government, labor associations, and civic advocacy groups. The impact of this national summit on its participants was perhaps best described by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who declared midway through the event that "the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

both organizations and employees benefit by emphasizing newcomers' authentic best selves. Paper: http://www.francescagino.com/publications.html First-Party Content and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Hagiu, Andrei, and Daniel... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

also accounts reasonably well for the large gyration in stock prices over this period. Finally, the endogenous adoption mechanism plays a significant role in amplifying other shocks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-134.pdf Farsighted Stability... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

valuable and transformative." Also last September, Acxiom unveiled its beta Audience Operating System, which allows marketers to connect traditionally disconnected data across all channels — online, offline, and mobile — and which Howe... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

future laws and reforms in the financial arena. One thing is clear: Despite severe criticism, the act and the institutions it created have survived almost intact since enactment. But so have condemnations. It's a puzzle, say the authors,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

Profile

Kathleen Hebert

dealerships throughout Canada." As an undergraduate student in Kingston, Ontario, Kathleen "focused on marketing while developing my understanding of business fundamentals." She spent one summer as a View Details

09 Feb 2011
News

Still Shining through Florida's Clouds

Developer David Lucas (MBA '71) has won a reputation as a generous philanthropist. Along with homeowners, developers in Florida’s Gulf Coast real-estate market have been hit hard by the recession. David Lucas (MBA ’71) has been riding out... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of... View Details

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