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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

But companies shouldn't count on people succeeding despite the odds; they should shift the odds. Here are three ways to do that. Put innovation at the heart of strategy, and tout it in every message. Think of innovation strategy as a... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

space with three fellow classmates. What do you remember about your first cold call?My first cold call happened during a Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) class my first year. We were discussing the case “Erik Petersen (A),”... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

learning to come up with a communication strategy targeting different segments.” We drafted a booklet that answered a lot of challenging questions about what it means to be gay, and the administration agreed to produce 1,000 of them. They... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2015
Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White

BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy

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18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

especially for smaller tenants. Co-working space is here to stay and this is largely attributable to Neumann. Can the company ultimately be profitable? Probably, as there are other companies engaged in similar models that do make money.... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

James W. Riley has been confronted with questions of identity and alienation since he was a teenage graffiti artist navigating 1990s Los Angeles. “I’ve always had this notion of going places and being in spaces that maybe subtly said,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

strategy to engage a broad audience through telling an interesting and important story being played out in twenty-first-century organizations. Q: What makes a CIO job the most volatile, high-turnover job in business? How important is CIO... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

the profession. Journalists are asking, Whom do we serve? How do we know what people think is important? Any good reader-revenue strategy has to be built around a real understanding of the audience and what motivates people to consume... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

08 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Long Distance Relationships: What if my partner can’t join me at HBS?

Strategy team at Gympass, a fitness and well-being startup. Throughout all those years, HBS was always on my radar. I knew that to become a better leader – be it in consulting or a start-up – HBS would give me the tools to make real... View Details

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

interdisciplinary problem, and we need large networks of people both within and outside of our direct industry to address it. Paul McDonald, Senior Director, Opower Product Strategy & Marketing at Oracle Climate Rising episode: How... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

INVESTING IN BRAZIL: A gift from André Esteves (pictured here with wife Lilian) will improve an Executive Education residence hall—a space increasingly used by program participants from Brazil. This past spring, three separate donors... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

“That’s something, at least right now, that the Amazon algorithm has been unable to crack,” says Raffaelli. When the brown paper came off the windows of BookHampton at the start of the summer season in 2016, regular customers found a bright and open View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

compelling,” says Senior Lecturer John Macomber, coauthor with Joseph Allen of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. “In other words, more and more of these companies will enter the mainstream.” The need... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

to perform work they previously wouldn’t have been able to do (e.g., roti machine with space for a wheelchair). SELCO has also built partnerships with Indian banks and microfinance organizations to enable entrepreneurs and families to... View Details

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

HBS Club of Seattle and the Harvard Club of Seattle to present Leadership in Tech: Innovation, Disruption, and Opportunity at the Columbia Center in Seattle on February 8. The panel discussion featured industry experts Rathi Murthy, CTO and president of Expedia Product... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Harvard Business School

office and retail space in downtown Framingham. Two years later he oversaw a joint venture to develop a 56-unit affordable housing development in Dorchester. Richard America Jr. MBA 1965 Richard America has published on economic... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In his book Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing... View Details

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

opinion from the instructor, the traditional response from the instructor is, “What do you think?” I’ve been asking it in this space for 22 years this month. "The case method requires that instructors often pass control of the learning... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

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