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A Polaroid Timeline 1932–1977 | Baker Library

becomes a consultant. Polaroid net sales: $141,959. Net profit: $8,677. 1940 Harvard Business School Harvard View Details

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

education, or economic development, finds Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Anke Becker in a recent working paper called “On the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

11 Jul 2012
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The Future of Boards

distinct from the CEO. Raymond Gilmartin, Merck's former chairman, president, and CEO, makes the case for a lead director who acts as a liaison to the CEO but is the equal of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

21 Jul 2014
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Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

Era of Climate Change, a five-part WBUR series in collaboration with Harvard Business School and Boston University... View Details

22 Mar 2013
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Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

thinking. But people aren't mind readers," Conant told a roomful of CEOs during the second Higher-Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held at View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

03 Oct 2005
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The Box Office Power of Stars

We all understand at some level that stars in the worlds of film, sports, and even business create results. If you want big box office for Pirates View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

16 Jan 2012
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Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

opportunity cost of their time. Yet by law, such meetings are not allowed to convey material information. "There seems to be a disconnect," says Eugene F. Soltes, an assistant professor in the Accounting... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

12 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

suggests new research based on an international competition to design a NASA robot. "When experts have a been-there-done-that mindset, potential breakthroughs may hit the discard pile before companies can... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

Dwight B. Crane

Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance. He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

The Joy of Work

Unit, and faculty chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS. For the past several years, Amabile, who holds a Ph.D. in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

year to see if he could help make improvements to the system. Instead, he began to lose faith in it. In 2000, he spent a reported $23.4 million in support of a statewide View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Feb 2016
News

Online dating? Swipe left

18 Jan 2018
News

The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

Working closely together, we've got some great talent. I think that's what gives us confidence. But there are always moments you go, God, I hope this works. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

25 Jul 2013
News

An Engine of Education Innovation

the principles of enterprise to education. "It was an extraordinary opportunity: They agreed to let a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur develop a course on education reform... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools

Christina M. Wallace

A self-described “human Venn diagram” Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: arts; venture capital industry; consumer products; service industry; internet

25 Oct 2020
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The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

Cream-Skimming?, was written by Marco Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

25 Apr 2018
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success

and the resultant lack of minority role models, is what prompted Rice to develop MLT while still a student at HBS. He realized just how close he had come to missing the... View Details

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

31 Aug 2016
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One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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