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22 Aug 2020
News

Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business

notes. “People have switched into mascara and into eyeshadows and to brow styling,” she says. “The questions we get now are ‘How do I make my eyes stand out for Zoom?’” Beck, a 2019 HBS Alumni Achievement Winner, also noted the value of... View Details

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Liberalism, 1945–1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Galambos, Louis, and Barbara Barrow Spence. The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880–1940: A... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

that people from all over the country were moving to Memphis to help build this company.” But Bobo’s excitement had no real outlet. “We scour the planet to find athletic talent at an early age,” he says, “but we wait too long to cultivate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

Summing Up Can creativity and innovation be managed? Judging from responses to questions posed by practitioner panelists at a recent colloquium on "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future" at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

businesses to contemplate having a purpose the way individuals might do so. Aiming for a higher ideal elevates our thinking and expands our ambition that View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

01 Jun 2014
News

FIELD 2 in Accra

important information." Learning by Doing Introduced in 2011, FIELD 2 is a transformative experience in learning that sends all 900-plus first-year MBA students across the... View Details

Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Information

04 Sep 2019
News

Action Plan: A New ’Cue

marketing strategies and consumer activations around those three pillars, like ‘Back of the House Sessions,’ where we have musicians come in and record.” Be flexible. “On the restaurant side, we have three... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2014
News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

our business works very well in a particular kind of medium-sized city. And in those cities, we can invest in the... View Details

2010
Working Paper

A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

A model is developed that rationalizes contracts that give depositors the right to obtain funds on demand even when depositors intend to use these funds for consumption in the future. This is explained by depositor overoptimism regarding their own ability to collect... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Financial Services Industry

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Morgan and other established banks that had a hold on heavy industries like steel and railroads were reluctant to invest in riskier emerging fields such as retail—leaving an... View Details

31 Aug 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks & Patrick Kalaher

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

business education. Washington served as principal of Tuskegee University, which provided vocational training in agriculture and industry, from its founding in 1881. 2 Du Bois... View Details

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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

as they were called. The volumes were successfully marketed to colleges and business schools around the country. 7 As early as 1923, more than 100 other colleges and universities used casebooks produced by... View Details

28 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Kicking Off Alumni in Climate Networking Series in Boston

business and the environment. Email bei@hbs.edu to learn more about upcoming events. This summer the Alumni in Climate Networking Series kicked off at Schwartz Pavilion on July 12th. This was View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School... View Details

30 Aug 2021
News

How to Buy A Little Happiness, No Matter How Much Money You Have

01 Apr 2001
News

Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters

member), and developed into a business plan from which Montage emerged shortly after graduation in 1997. Although other View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Information

January 2014
Case

Anglo American: Implementing a 'Social Way' for Global Mining

By: Christopher Marquis, David Plumb, Tom Blathwayt and Zoe Yang

The mining giant Anglo American attempts to differentiate itself through its social performance, yet public expectations are still growing. Maintaining a "social license" to operate was increasingly challenging and critical to business success.

The case... View Details

Keywords: Global Mining; Localization; Socioeconomic Issues; Procurement; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain Management; Globalization; Reputation; Emerging Markets; Mining Industry; South Africa