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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge, moved to a barn in Weston, then a building on Dartmouth Street in Boston's Back Bay convenient to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Boston Public... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
pressures. It can be a brutal situation." Indeed, as the Wall Street Journal's front page proclaimed last fall in the wake of the downturn in Asia, overcapacity has become "a dire and obvious problem for countries around the world."... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
billion. A 2015 Wall Street Journal exposé, which became the bestseller “Bad Blood,” led to several criminal and civil probes, and sanctions imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Theranos dissolved in 2018. Prosecutors must... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
does it take to find a reliable vaccine? What can you tell ... Could you just help me understand what does it take? Frazier: Well, first of all, it takes a lot of time. I think the record for the fastest vaccine ever brought to market was... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
think those people also run a tremendous risk of being left behind. Goldman has a big market share in Internet stocks, and we have tried our best to understand them, but some of this defies rational analysis! We're using valuation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
prevailed through the difficulties of finding capital, and through the difficulties of her own very limited social position. In a market in which there weren't many realms where women could play, she found a way. "She lived on a... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Ginia Bellefante, “Is the Era of Instant Groceries Already Over?” The New York Times, July 24, 2022. Chip Cutter, “The Back-to-Work Puzzle,” The Wall Street Journal, July... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
auto market in the 1950s. The industry leader, unbothered by competition and looming threats, began to coast on its former glory, however, and bypass such areas as consumer preferences and industry innovation. By February 2009, GM's View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
get intimidated, which served me well throughout my career in Fortune 500 companies, startups, and now as an entrepreneur. That case was the fork in the road of my career, and I have been in marketing ever since. It gave me confidence to... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist much more effectively than they could before. Those publications integrate macroeconomics with what we know about business and markets, often in the very same articles. Without... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
secret,” she says. “I’ve spent the last 15 years in Africa really trying to not only unlock the agricultural and food potential on the continent, but also to enable our enterprises to scale.” Sahel Consulting provides strategy consulting support, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
large corporations, such as Apple and Google, are careful to retain their underdog roots in their brand biographies." A forthcoming article coauthored by Keinan for the Journal of Consumer Research, "The Underdog Effect: The View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
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Ellen Desmarais | About
its 600 employees worldwide. Ellen is responsible for the HBP Education market group, which serves over 3,800 academic and edtech programs globally, and has oversight of enterprise product, technology, finance, human resources, risk, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
their dismay they learned that because Pompe afflicts so few people — less than one in 40,000 — no treatment had yet been developed. Determined to change that, Crowley quit his job as a marketing executive for Bristol-Myers Squibb,... View Details
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
railroads represented a highest percentage of listed stocks and bonds issued on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock market grew from a few shares in the 1830s to hundreds of thousands in 1850 to millions by the mid-1860s. Investors... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Vietnam is to incorrectly assess market size," says Hoa, citing an example of one U.S.-based manufacturer that came to Vietnam in the early 1990s. "They saw the city streets crowded with motorbikes and made... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
At a time when health care providers have gone all in on telemedicine, Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, surprised Wall Street in late July when it announced it would acquire 1Life Healthcare Inc., which runs the... View Details