American presidency - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2011
News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

US economy. A hands-on leader who has met with business owners in 36 states in the two years since President Barack Obama appointed her to head the US Small Business Administration (SBA), Mills has had many poignant encounters with people... View Details

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

(fracking) promised an abundance of accessible, cheap, domestically produced natural gas, but the cost to the environment remained a point of debate. As incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama faced Republican opponent Mitt Romney in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Events - Private Capital Project

(Managing Partner, Electric Capital), Scott Duke Kominers (Sarofim-Rock Professor, HBS ), and John Wu President (Ava Labs), moderated by Professor Shai Bernstein (Marvin Bower Associate Professor, HBS) and Professor Josh Lerner (Co-head... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture... View Details

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

international franchising opportunities and a debt recapitalization. By early 2016, Sun was looking to the company’s next phase of growth while handing management of her executive team to BrightStar’s President and COO. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

able to increase the speed and sharpness of the film. They tested the process in temperatures ranging from 20 degrees F. (which required longer development) to 100 degrees F. (which required shorter development). George Ehrenfried, a photographic physicist at Polaroid,... View Details

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

from downsizing the drivers' positions? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/413061-PDF-ENG Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC Froot, Kenneth A., Lauren Cohen, and Scott WaggonerHarvard Business School Case 211-031 Kishore Karunakaran,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

and CEO, and that salaries of the executive leadership team, senior vice presidents, and directors/vice presidents would be cut by 30 percent, 20 percent, and 10 percent, respectively. In a letter to employees, Aon CEO Greg Case announced... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

Others With Truthful Statements.) And it has certainly wormed its way into the political spectrum. The research paper Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others opens with excerpts from a January 21, 1998, PBS NewsHour... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006). Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital... View Details

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

group started up an annual potluck in New York City, and 10 or 12 of us would drive down to meet 60 to 70 wonderful, accomplished gay and lesbian alums. I was co-president of the GSA my second year, and after graduating I organized 15 of the NYC annual potlucks and... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

Program by revising the need-based formula for financial aid and waiving application fees, and becoming the first academic partner to the OneTen Initiative , which aims to create 1 million jobs for Black Americans without a college degree... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic history that has its... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

length in a process meant to provide an emotional release. The resulting records, hundreds and hundreds of pages in which employees disclose personal details of their day to day lives, offer an astonishingly intimate portrait of the View Details

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

U.S. market in the late 1960s, Firestone, along with most of the major American tire manufacturers, suffered costly setbacks and lost significant market share. By 1988, Firestone had been acquired by Japanese competitor Bridgestone, and... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

Highway As cities reshape themselves and populations increase, demand for goods will rise. And if the pandemic taught us anything about supply and demand, it’s that the trucking system—once largely unnoticed—can become a real bottleneck. Cheng Lu (MBA 2010), 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

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

American economy though they did not fully understand its implications. “What does it mean that the number of mortgages on homes is increasing?” wondered census analysts in 1923. “Does it mean growing wealth or growing poverty?” 21 The... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

City, and 10 or 12 of us would drive down to meet 60 to 70 wonderful, accomplished gay and lesbian alums. I was co-president of the GSA my second year, and after graduating I organized 15 of the NYC annual potlucks and served as both View Details

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

21 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Harvard Square's Hidden History

Ave. Two metal plates embedded in the section of Massachusetts Avenue between Dunster and Holyoke Streets mark the foundation of Goffe House, a building unearthed during the construction of the Red Line MBTA subway in 1910. Harvard’s View Details

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