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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Kumar Mahadeva

Cognizant provides application outsourcing services and 24/7 software project management for a small but intensely loyal client base of large U.S. and European companies. Widely praised in the business press for its innovation and growth,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Jul 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

really attracted to its mission to help children grow smarter, stronger, and kinder – especially the kinder part in this current age.” Although she hasn’t discussed specific projects yet, Mizuho will serve as Director of Strategy for... View Details

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

to change them.” Blame it on the alcohol Schlesinger’s student coauthors worked with Tam Le as part of the HBS Neighborhood Business Partnership, a field-based second-year course led by Schlesinger and Senior Lecturer Kristin Mugford. (The case was the end product of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

rapidly, and there was so much attention and pressure from the boom cycle. When all of that slows down, it washes out a lot of the projects that in one way or another weren’t sustainable. That means there has been lost value—there have... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

lot of institutional inertia that makes it hard to actually to do that,” Nagle says. “This is one more piece of evidence that we should be encouraging that on a person level as well as a project level.” In business, where innovating... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

Keywords: by Nuno Gil & Carliss Y. Baldwin

01 Dec 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel

10 Dec 2009
Working Paper Summaries

State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury & Tarun Khanna

Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation

Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

and restricted and unrestricted current use giving, was $158 million, compared with $151 million in the prior year. Cash giving to the endowment increased to $81 million from $77 million in fiscal 2022. Cash giving for capital projects... View Details

01 Dec 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS FIELD Program?

participating in FIELD? When applying to school, FIELD was something that sounded exciting, but I did not really know what to expect. After having gone through the process, I can say that I have met some of my best friends through the process, worked on some View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

to HBS came with the caveat that he add another year of work experience to the two already listed on his résumé and complete some of the quantitative courses his transcript lacked. He spent the year in Omaha, working as a project manager... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

The other is free. Through Project Hope, they seek out people who are suffering from this disease, in Africa or China, for example, and provide the therapy. This approach is in stark contrast to some of the big pharmaceutical companies... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Forum - U.S. Competitiveness

Forum Started 18 Nov 2014 What Employers Must Do To Find Workers Forum started by Joseph B. Fuller Economists and commentators have long debated the existence of a “skills gap” and its purported causes. The Harvard Business School’s View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

years after graduation,” explains Perlow. The following year, she led 17 students in an independent study project that asked hundreds of alumni to consider what they wished they’d known while at HBS and what they’ve learned since then.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

History at HBS, have been compiling an oral history project called Creating Emerging Markets, 130 video interviews of iconic business leaders from emerging markets discussing their careers and organizations in an unstructured format.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

to our course content. Are there opportunities for team building? Many of our courses include team discussions and projects to foster social learning and community-building. The courses that include team and partner-based activities are:... View Details

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

million, of secure web servers on the internet and allowed numerous data breaches, including the theft of 4.5 million medical records from a large hospital chain. In response to Heartbleed, the Linux Foundation established CII, a project... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

to better understand and improve their water consumption. “Americans are comfortable with water conservation, but we will also need to get much more comfortable with the idea of wastewater reuse. Many cities are already doing it,” says Littlefield. “Los Angeles has a... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

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