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Map & Directions | About

Map & Directions View on Google Maps Find a Building on Google Maps Directions by Car From Logan Airport: Follow signs for I-90 West (Massachusetts Turnpike/Ted Williams Tunnel). Take I-90 West to exit #20 for Brighton/Cambridge. See... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

inspired New England's high-tech boom and the spread of companies that began to populate Route 128 surrounding Boston and Cambridge. A number of ARD employees also went on to start their own venture capital firms: William Elfers (HBS MBA... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2020
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What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

William M. Allen, Boeing’s chief executive at the time, was asked to meet with us because Vertol, a helicopter company acquired by Boeing, was far behind schedule with the vitally needed Chinook helicopter.... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Books

and geopolitical change and uncertainty; compete on a global scale; and operate in a socially responsible and accountable manner. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth by Regina M. Abrami, View Details
  • 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

on the most important (and expensive) asset of any business: its people. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter, Bishop View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
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Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

the football team and a member of the varsity track squad. After earning his AM (1933) and Ph.D. (1934) in economics from Harvard, he taught economics at Williams College from 1935 to 1949. In 1948, Fox took a one-year leave of absence... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
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Patrick Moreton

discrimination and product bundling. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at the School from 1991 to 1993, writing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Jun 2003
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South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

Partners Program in Northern California, as an essential source of expertise to get their groups up and running. Ana Maria Camargo (MBA ’93) of Boston’s Community Action Partners, Judy Benardete (MBA ’95) of the HBS Social Enterprise Alumni Association, and Melissa... View Details
Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 1996
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New Releases

Engines of Innovation edited by Richard S. Rosenbloom and William J. Spencer (HBS Press) In past decades, industrial laboratories such as AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were wellsprings of powerful new... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2011
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Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

officials, and local organizations in a number of US cities to disseminate ideas and galvanize action at the regional level. Watch for announcements of upcoming events in early 2012. "Improving competitiveness is often seen as the job of the government," said Porter,... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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Site Credits - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits Site Credits Curator: Melissa Banta EXHIBITION ADVISORS: Faculty and Colleagues from Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University: William C. Kirby, T. View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Special Collections, Harvard Law School These ten volumes of manuscript material, compiled at the request of James M. Landis, document the conception and passage of the National Securities Exchange Act of 1934. They include previous bills... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016

instance. The essay also features the leading proponents of this program, especially Charles Hook of ARMCO, and reasons for its eventual decline. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50915 Wesley... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
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New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Trust Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Alisa Yu, Justin M. Berg, and Julian Zlatev “People often respond to others’ emotions using verbal acknowledgment (e.g., “You seem upset”). Yet, little is known about the... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2014
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China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

strong history of commercial development. Pictured is the Bund in Shanghai, the city's financial district along the Huangpu River, in 1899. "After people read this book, they should not be negative on China—we're not negative on China," says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Philadelphia printers conduct first successful strike for increased wages 1787 United States Constitution adopted 1790 William Pollard is issued the first patent for a machine that roves and spins cotton 1794 Eli Whitney patents gin that... View Details
  • June 2021
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Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU

By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
Investor-driven "short-termism" is said to harm EU public firms' ability to invest for the long term, prompting calls for the EU to better insulate managers from shareholder pressure. But the evidence offered—rising levels of repurchases and dividends—is incomplete and... View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; EU; Payout Policy; Innovation; Investment; Corporate Governance; Investment Return; Acquisition; European Union
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  • April 2, 2020
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Buyback Critics Are Not Letting the COVID-19 Crisis Go to Waste

By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles CY Wang
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Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?

By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The charge? These firms prefer to distribute cash generated from their... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Investment; Stocks; Business and Shareholder Relations; Equality and Inequality; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Far as the Eye Can See: A History of Seeing by Susan M. Denham (MBA 1993) The History Press From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans have repeatedly invented new ways to see their... View Details