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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley

will always be better if you hear from colleagues, who, as in a wide-ranging case discussion, will contribute different perspectives. And, of course, HBS training and an understanding of the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

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Commencement 2018 Address | About

particularly at a business school, we often use it as a noun—meaning a collection of people, who come together for a common purpose, to create something of value. We take this coming-together process for... View Details

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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

delivery organization. Better Accounting Transforms Health Care Delivery ACCOUNTING HORIZONS (June 2014) Robert S. Kaplan and Mary L. Witkowski The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that... View Details

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

accounts, meaning that they were written by people paid by their employers to work in these "field" sites. For instance, Melvin Dalton's seminal piece on managers' roles, titled Men Who Manage: Fusions of Feeling and Theory in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

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Alexandra Stanek

McKinsey. I found the problem-solving aspect of consulting very interesting, and tried to get assignments, unsuccessfully, in Africa. After McKinsey, I joined TechnoServe, a nonprofit that uses business as a tool to affect poverty. In the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Andrew Kinard

mind — the academic rigor is unparalleled," says Andrew. "But I found myself in contracts class last year wanting to know why the parties wanted to come to an agreement in the first place. Remedies and interpretation are important, but I also wanted to... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans

“I think it's a combination of two things,” he says. “First, people have the time, because they're stuck at home. Second, there’s a lot of economic uncertainty, and people are... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?

Sundance. + ONLINE web-only content MB: Can you talk about the economics behind Roadside? ED: Ultimately, this business is driven by the curation of a slate of films. We... View Details

13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

portfolio of programs in parallel.” In an industry where serial entrepreneurship is the norm, Cytokinetics’s approach instead requires “a strategy based on sustainability and durability” that includes... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

career in economic development. GO: Africa Fellowship Enables Graduates to Have an Impact The Global Opportunity Fellowship (GO: Africa) supplements the income of MBA graduates pursuing careers in Africa... View Details

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

perspectives, or points of view. "There's got to be a plausible tension in the case," says W. Carl Kester, chair of the M.B.A. program and Industrial Bank View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers

education." While Sherwood and her seven classmates were rightfully recognized as pioneers, they were not the first women to sit in an Aldrich classroom. From 1960 to 1965, several dozen women earned an MBA after completing a first year View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

With Y2K predictions running the gamut from glitches with home appliances to worldwide economic collapse, Y2K expert John F. Keane (MBA '54) assesses the situation as it appears with one year to go. John F. Keane is CEO and chairman View Details

10 Mar 2021
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Sister Soldier

It speaks to what they’ve worked to put in place. It’s not that it’s perfect; it’s evolving, and these women continue to work to provide security and to work for what they believe in. The big question that the book ends on is what comes next, and the Biden View Details

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

There is next to no evidence that CSR positively adds to a company's bottom line, according to Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "You... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

Levenson Keohane (MBA 2000) (McGraw-Hill) With in-depth coverage of cutting-edge social programs and philanthropic initiatives, Keohane shows how social entrepreneurship has radically transformed the... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

21 May 2020
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Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

and financial distress—a mentally toxic combination for many. In fact, almost half of adults in the United States, 45 percent, say that worry and stress related to the coronavirus and the resulting economic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

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Past Issues - Alumni

Program Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution Complete Table of Contents October 1997... View Details

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