American presidency - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2014
News

Keeping Education in Check

practice.) It’s not just Berman’s own history and hope for the future success of children that motivates him—he notes that there is real science behind his belief. In 2000, for example, researchers found that 120 hours of chess instruction for African View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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

marketing as vice president for special markets. Click on photos above to learn more Between 1915 and 1930 approximately 12 African Americans attended HBS. They forged successful careers in insurance, real... View Details

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Harvard Business School

joined American Express as a marketing vice president in the travel-related services division. Before his retirement in 1993, he was promoted to senior vice president for... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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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

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Events - Private Capital Project

Lerner (Co-head of HBS Private Capital Project) Venture Capital and Crypto-Currency Investing June 5, 2024, “Venture Capital and Crypto-Currency Investing” with Avichal Garg (Managing Partner, Electric Capital), Scott Duke Kominers (Sarofim-Rock Professor, HBS ), and... View Details

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

including The American Railroad Journal (established in 1832); the New York Times (1851); The Stockholder: Monitor of Finance and Industry (1862); The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (1865); and the Wall Street Journal (1889).... View Details

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

renewables and storage while at HBS? Getting involved with clubs is one of the best ways to meet people outside of your section and connect with people in any industry. I served as a leader for the Microfinance Club and was also involved with the Christian Fellowship... View Details

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

filters that would reduce glare. The following year, Land-Wheelwright Laboratories entered a contract with the American Optical Company, a major manufacturer, to produce sunglasses, marketed as Polaroid Day Glasses—another critical... View Details

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We test the hypothesis that black... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

meeting surges in capacity and to explain how they derived that estimate. Transparency as a solution often fails because of a lack of enforcement or overly complex regulations. For example, when President Biden issued an executive order... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

Publications August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Accounting for Crises By: Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We provide one of the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which... 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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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

that remain in realizing its full potential. Slides Empire of Ideas: Will China Threaten American Leadership in Universities? Professor William C. Kirby + More Info – Less Info Today, American institutions... View Details

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

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

01 Aug 1998
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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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