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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

sense of having as their common purpose learning new things and applying that knowledge for public welfare. . . . Each individual will be a member of a group small enough so that he feels a full participant in the purpose and activity of... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

Corning 2007 Named Chairman, Corning 2007 Corning markets Gorilla Glass 2013 Fast Company names Corning one of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated As CEO of Corning Incorporated, Wendell Weeks... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

to, in some cases anyway, components of integrated blended offerings. It made sense to think of it all as a unified whole rather than two separate lines of business. Luis Viceira (LV) (Senior Associate Dean, HBS online and Executive Education): We all agree that these... View Details

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues

guests, participants addressed both the positive and the negative factors that business encounters in a state best known by the nickname inscribed on its license plates: "Vacationland." "The whole discussion was predicated on a very... View Details

Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker

01 Feb 1998
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universal participation later on," notes Austin. "Over 60 percent of the recent graduates in the 25Ð 29 age group are involved with nonprofits; toward the other end of the career - ages 55 and above - almost 90 percent are involved, and... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

04 Dec 2014
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Hacking Health Care

new era,” he says. Sirois credits former professors Jeffrey F. Rayport (Managing in Cyberspace) and Howard H. Stevenson (Entrepreneurial Finance) with jump-starting his thinking. “It was like an epiphany,” he says. “There were lessons on learning how to leverage the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

skepticism, are beginning to overdose. The bust likes to think of itself as a radical departure from the boom, but it has in common with it one big thing: a mob mentality.” Likewise, the economist Charles Kindleberger, in his seminal 1978 book on the history of View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

13 Nov 2006
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Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

describe it, has worked well for certain things in the industry, but not so well for others. What are some of the attributes of the anatomy and how has it contributed to performance shortfall? A: Let's take one: the market for know-how. I... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

22 Aug 2011
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Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

strength. Through a 10-day field experiment involving over 500 high-powered computer programmers, the researchers sought to determine just how employees would respond to working in environments somewhat customized to how they like to work. They divided the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Jun 2001
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When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

Internet and of the international scope of Intel Capital's reach, currently encompassing more than 175 companies outside the United States. With stock markets floundering and many venture capitalists sitting... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library

Brothers pursued an aggressive strategy of borrowing from the capital market at low rates and investing in mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and other speculative securities (including commercial MBSs, high yield debt, and leveraged loans)... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

Organized in conjunction with the Centennial, the event drew nearly ninety faculty and practitioners from around the world. A conversation with Khurana follows. What was your goal in organizing this event? We wanted to lay a foundation, to take View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Jul 2005
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Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

you’re not able to invest there.” Moonfare’s story offers insights for any company seeking new growth opportunities as its target market matures. While PE returns have outpaced stock View Details

27 Aug 2019
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Meet the PRIDE Club

Miami, Florida. Prior to HBS, she worked in digital and multicultural marketing across the consumer products and media industries. She will be transitioning to e-commerce management after HBS. When she's not immersed in the case method... View Details

04 Feb 2015
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Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

Summing Up How Transferable is the Google "School of Management"? Responses to this month's column suggest a great deal of respect for what Google's management has been able to achieve, both in terms of a strategy for bringing high-tech services to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

contribution is positively associated with proxies for quality of accruals and governance. Next, we investigate the implications of accruals' predictive value for accrual-based market anomalies. We find that portfolios formed on View Details