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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
scientific abilities from her father, a mathematician who worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and her artistic talents from family members who introduced her to art and music. 15 Classmates at Smith recalled Morse spending hours View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
survey of nearly 6,000 small-business owners conducted by a team of researchers in partnership with Alignable, an online business networking platform with 4.5 million members. The survey results paint a bleak picture of America’s current... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
confidant. They lived for many years in a townhouse on Beacon Hill in Boston where Doriot also enjoyed painting and writing poetry. In 1937, Doriot introduced a second year course called Manufacturing, a class he created in his own... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
have broader implications beyond baseball, says Parsons. A person concerned about being discriminated against may be less likely to take chances, sticking instead to more objectively measurable tasks, in the same way that a pitcher stops taking chances by View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
transit countries or all Chinese-owned firms. When weighing these options, we recommend policymakers leverage rich new sources of microdata, which can paint a different picture from aggregate statistics. “Businesses hoping to hedge... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
them, he would likely have perished, so fierce were the conflicts between his reason and his emotions. Drawing on all of Schumpeter's writings, including many intimate diaries and letters never before used, this biography paints the full... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
patient at a time,” he says. “I’m changing myself in the process. I’m investing in my own humanity, rather than accumulating physical assets.” Cooper believes his work as a physician has a strong interrelationship with his ongoing artistic endeavors, which currently... View Details
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
Informing consumers and restricting bad apples: that’s the dual role that occupational licensing is supposed to play. If a plumber, painting contractor, or HVAC repairer has a license it should matter to consumers wanting their services,... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
your old habits and interests, like painting or pottery, put yourself in a position where you can put the same level of effort and energy into something that's more restorative and something that you want to return to. Then, from there,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
entrepreneurial hustle, working with a friend to turn new German helmets into “war souvenirs” by painting them to look battle-worn. The rest is business lore: He never gave up on his cartoons, working relentlessly to improve them,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
compelling story or parable, I hope to capture the students’ hearts, their attention. I want to pull them into the experience by painting a picture to which they can relate. When I teach a case like “C&S Grocers,” a story about the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
holdings, we find considerable heterogeneity in investor demand for securitizations in the pre-crisis period. We argue that both investor beliefs and incentives help to explain this variation in demand. By contrast, our data paints a more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
successful brands do differently, he believes, is to target powerful ideological contradictions produced by society. Through popular culture, society paints a picture of its ideals: What is a successful person? What is the good life?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
survival of a people. It paints a theoretical and moving portrait of the antecedents of transnationalism and is a must read for students of history who care about the shaping of our modern world. Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
painted a two by two matrix, you might put Silicon Valley on the top right. Incredibly developed startup ecosystem and one of the most developed markets in the world, the US, and there's a couple other ecosystems you might put up there,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
by the end of 2014 (and a complete pullout by 2016) paint a less-than-rosy picture at best and something quite a bit darker at worst. But Khoja remains optimistic despite, or maybe because of, all he’s seen while helping build Roshan.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Home: Winter Harbor, Maine “I don’t consider myself retired,” says Bill Holden. “I’m just working in a different realm without the day-to-day performance requirements.” The author of three novels (with a fourth to come in 2005), Holden is also a self-taught artist who... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
according to the Olmsted brothers' initial landscaping plan, contrasts pleasingly with the buildings' red brick and echoes their white painted trim. White-flowered shrubs and trees such as Japanese barberry, white fringe trees, and... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
to paint a vivid and compelling picture of social life. In the extreme, Bales (1999) conservatively estimates that there are 27 million slaves in the world today, while Attaran and Sachs (2001) report that 35 million people are now... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh