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- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
feel, color and cost, and the increased emotional element associated with more fashionable clothing, which is often purchased for special events. However, the Internet is expected to penetrate the fashion segments of the market, in part... View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Library, Harvard Business School. 38. Land quoted in Kostelanetz, "A Wide-Angle View," 52. 39. McCune, Oral history files, 142-143. 40. Edwin H. Land, "Address to Polaroid Corporation Employees," June 25, 1958, in McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible , 199. Contact... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
assignments; Requiring that a different degree of directors’ wealth be at risk through investments in company shares to ensure they have interests totally aligned with those of shareholders; Completely separating the role of CEO and board chairman. This last innovation... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
specially configured, nuclear-powered submarine, a “spook boat” that was engaged in covert operations. He found his naval service rewarding, but when his five years of active duty were up, it was time to move on. “I thought that being an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817081-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-051 Unigrains Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
managers valuable insights, but there are potential pitfalls, Luca says. They include: Failing to tie experiments with managerial decision-making. Some organizations tend to relegate testing to specialized teams without deep managerial... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
this period may mask the underperformance of the specialized bank activities. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53722 Harvard Business School Case 718-013 The Productivity Decline: Demographics,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
same time, the hedge fund return series is not reliably distinguishable from the returns of mechanical S&P 500 put-writing strategies. We show that the high excess returns to hedge funds and put-writing are consistent with an equilibrium in which a small subset of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
1980s when he and his wife, Ali Hewson, worked at an Ethiopian feeding station. He used his growing celebrity status to forge a crucial longtime relationships with Eunice Kennedy Shriver (U2 recorded a song for her Special Olympics... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
and executive management team is alike; every unhappy board and executive management team is unhappy in its own special way. In high-performing SMDOs, the board and executive management team have worked out an agreed and clear set of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
course, OLPC aspires to many more commitments to fulfill its vision of "one laptop per child." Herein, marketers find much food for thought. According to Quelch, a professor of marketing, the laptop's creation and diffusion are View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
recently joined with the private company Celera Genomics to announce the cracking of the human genetic code.) Increasing interest in such research has led to complex legal tangles. Patent attorney Brenda Herschbach Jarrell of Choate, Hall & Stewart, who View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
many overlapping career pathways to partnership, requiring further non-client service staff to support and manage expansion.” This emphasis on growth has reshaped their company culture and personnel priorities. Broadening offerings requires increasingly View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
present impressive line of films.” (3) By 1960, photographic products accounted for 97 percent of the company’s total income. (4) In 1966, Morse became director of special photographic research at Polaroid. A supportive colleague and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
Organizational Behavior Unit, Assistant Professor Tsedal Neeley researches global collaboration with special emphasis on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup challenges of working across national boundaries. While a principal... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
team, not just a top-down vision.” What was your favorite campus spot when you were a student? “The indoor track on the second floor of Shad will always have a special place in my heart for the hours I spent there with my workout buddies,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
in 2011 to the first Antares team assigned to MeraDoctor. Serving as US ambassador for negotiations on a treaty governing international telecommunications, Kramer headed the US delegation to a world conference in Dubai in 2012. Says Roslyn Braeman Payne, "One of our... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Founded in December 2010, NOW, based in Atlanta, Georgia, was serving clients in nine states. With 2013 year-to-date revenue of roughly $100,000, NOW was financed with $2.5 million of founder as well as friends and family equity. NOW's wholly owned, not-for-profit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
specializing in the burgeoning field of behavioral economics. "Standard economic theory suggests that as long as people understand the full consequences of their actions, they tend to act in their self interest," says John. "If they want... View Details