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Global Activities 2020
China and Myanmar. 50 % Cases published in FY20 that were globally oriented 33 % MBA students in the Classes of 2021 and 2022 who are international, representing 81 countries 15 HBS global research centers and offices operating worldwide... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
crystals, called herapathite, were too small and expensive to create a useful material. Land's breakthrough came in 1928 when he discovered that with a magnetic field he could align microscopic crystals suspended with a lacquer solution in a way that View Details
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Dilan Gomih
Although trading was “an incredible experience that forced me to be detail oriented and whet my appetite for risk," Dilan felt called to leadership. Reflecting upon her work experience—in trading, media, and wellness instruction—she... View Details
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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Social Progress Imperative aims to advance global human wellbeing by combining national social performance and capacity indicators with solutions- oriented outreach. AllWorld Network AllWorld Network makes visible the scalable growth... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
they're clearly oriented toward maintaining the status quo. They're suspicious of new ideas. Sometimes the organization has a culture where new ideas are evaluated harshly, and people see that. It speaks much louder than any corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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Tom Adeyemi
section mates sharing their personal experiences during a Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) case on a senior executive who was debating whether to reveal her sexual orientation at work. The vulnerability that people showed in... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
sustained growth while pursuing a strong export orientation provided the empirical backdrop for this approach. Government policy to achieve export-led growth is then essentially about findings ways to increase the ability to sell... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
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Sexual Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct | About
committed to maintaining a safe and healthy educational and work environment in which no member of the University community is, on the basis of sex, including sexual orientation or gender identity, excluded from participation in, denied... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
Florida legislature, after several weeks of heated public controversy, passed and sent to Governor Ron DeSantis a Parental Rights in Education bill stating: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
ripples to others. Companies with the strongest stakeholder and partner orientations are best able to survive and transcend crises, because they can plan together, gain local knowledge from each other, and draw on good will to get back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Family Business Club
to network and connect with people of similar backgrounds, and have the opportunity to learn from distinguished professors and guests at our action oriented workshops and speaker series. Students also get to interact with classmates who... View Details
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
stars, Groysberg says the evidence "strongly suggests the wisdom of hiring from firms with similar orientations and lesser or equivalent quality" that are less "resource-rich" than one's own, with every effort made to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
service had increased access to resources (land) for generations. I slowly came to see that if I didn’t accept the role, I would regret it. I took the offer and was ultimately placed in Denver to work with the Submerged Resources team. Our cohort of interns had a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
intellectual domination of American business education by economics during the past three decades—make managers anything but disinterested experts oriented toward the needs of society that we take to be part of the essence of... View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
writes in Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929–1945 . “ Fortune built on the increasingly populist orientation of the art world as it promoted an integration of culture and capitalism that would... View Details
- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
also respected the strengths and culture of the company; not all Non-Family Outsiders do. In fact, some have disdain for the values and fundamental orientations of family companies—and these leaders usually fail, rather spectacularly.... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
individual and functional biases at work. These kinds of problems require more than IT implementation or optimization algorithms. In some cases, ever-present bias must be fought with bias; behavioral problems need behavioral solutions. From our observations there seems... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
percent were people of color. “This is the by-product I’m most excited about and proud of,” Tuchman says in the case. “I know firsthand that women and people of color have less access and fewer connections.” Meanwhile, Lipsey tackled systemic change directly in her... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
willing to do the necessary self-examination are still in the minority, Beer says. “Organizational transformations around the world would be more rapid and cost effective if executives were willing to create the context for effective management training by starting... View Details