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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

humanity in the products he invented and in the endeavors of those who created them. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY... View Details
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

progress." 68 Many students from his Manufacturing course went on to assist Doriot during the war, work by his side at ARD, help found INSEAD, hold positions in top corporations, and start the second generation of venture capital firms.... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

had built specialized in managing digital risk and uncovering digital evidence and had grown very rapidly. With the firm's CFO, they believed that the firm could grow from $58 million to $72 million, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

response to the introduction of the Land Camera in 1948, provided HBS faculty an ongoing wealth of topics to study and analyze. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

venture capital is inextricably linked to Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the industry. During his 40-year tenure at Harvard Business School, the charismatic professor taught business and leadership in his celebrated View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
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Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter

that Hubscher knew she wouldn’t touch. “The product itself hasn’t changed,” she says. “A pen or a pencil remains a pen or a pencil.” She was also committed to Caran d’Ache’s artisanal approach to production. Crafting a single pencil requires up to 35 steps, with a... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • November 2017
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iRobot: Moving Beyond the Roomba

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
The makers of the Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner, connected the latest version of their product to the Internet. This new feature opened up a wealth of new opportunities and challenges for the company. View Details
Keywords: Irobot; Smart Home; Connected Home; Roomba; Vacuum; Mapping; Internet Of Things; Connected Products; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

presents the instructive dilemma faced by Fujifilm as its core film business vanishes in the wake of advances made in digital technology. “Fuji experienced the same situation that buggy whip manufacturers... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 26 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

excelled at analog photography but hasn't been able to make the leap to digital cameras. Boeing, a longtime leader in commercial aircraft, has experienced difficulties in its defense-contracting businesses and has recently stumbled in the... View Details
Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

more: http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631215066_chunk_g978063121506624 Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check

Illustration by Neil Webb Illustration by Neil Webb Josh Hoffman-Senn (MBA 2019) and fellow cofounder of LS, Jimmy Pemberton, launched their initial digital toolkit in 2021, after seeing fellow musicians search out supplemental income... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

cultural landscape after the Civil War. By the 1860s, the railroad industry had created a national network for the manufacture and distribution of industrial and consumer goods and, with it, the need for eye-catching, widespread... View Details
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step... View Details
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

(CD) and the compact disk-read only memory (CD-ROM) and, again with Philips, the digital videodisk (DVD). By the 1990s Philips's functional capabilities were unable to meet the Japanese competition. Its technical capabilities had been... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

operating in manufacturing and electronics. The increasing impact of digital technologies on all of its business units had prompted CEO Joe Kaeser and his team to put View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2015
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Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

the company's success over its 20-year existence. But Sunil Gupta, an expert on marketing and digital technology who wrote a recent case on Amazon, sees deeper motives behind the company creating its own Christmas in July. "I think... View Details
Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Tractor Company Photographs The Caterpillar Tractor Company, one of the world's leading manufacturers of tractors, was formed in 1925. From early on the company mounted extensive marketing campaigns advertising their products for farming,... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

1900 to 1904. Collection Guide Waltham Watch Company Records, 1854–1941 . Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School. The Waltham Watch Company, known as American Watch Company from 1859 to 1885 and American Waltham Watch Company from 1885 to 1906,... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

Quelch and Rodriguez wrote a case in May about Philips, which started in 1891 as a light bulb manufacturer in the Netherlands and, more recently, has become a major manufacturer of medical devices and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace