John H. Davis - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2005 (Revised June 2005)
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Hancock Land Company and Hancock Lumber Company (B)

By: John A. Davis and Dwight B. Crane

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Forest Products Industry; Real Estate Industry

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September 2003 (Revised November 2003)
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Raiser Organization, The

By: John A. Davis and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Jennifer and Philip Raiser, a sibling partnership who inherited a real estate management and ownership company from their father, ponder the strategic and financial challenges facing their family business. Reviews the history of the business and asks what the best... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Family Business; Growth and Development Strategy; Real Estate Industry

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The NAAI Exhibition Opens - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

began to bring attention to their work in the context of a fine-art setting. In the Rockefeller Plaza mezzanine were approximately 250 works by 50 artists, including such well-known photographers as Russell Aikins, Margaret Bourke-White, Nickolas Muray, View Details

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Bibliography - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844 . Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1997. Fairbank, John King, Ernest R. May, and Alfred D. Chandler. America’s China Trade in Historical Perspective: The Chinese and American Performance... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Groundswells

1980–1995 tenure of Dean John H. McArthur—the Class of 1959 Chapel and Shad Hall—were actually elements delayed from the original master plan. Other McArthur-era projects, such as infrastructure improvements... View Details

Keywords: George F. Baker III; Read Estate Development

June 1960
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Sitwell, Inc.

By: John H. McArthur

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01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

1978) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us by Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) (WanderLearn) Destructive Interference by Martin Skogsbeck, i.e., Martin Waldstrom (MBA 1973) (Xlibris Corp.) Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

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Additional Harvard Funding | MBA

Goldsmith Fellowship Open to students demonstrating nonprofit leadership. Forward Fellowship The Forward Fellowship is designed to support students from lower-income backgrounds who have carried significant financial burdens or obligations. View Details

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

University—from business archive to “art” collection and back again—reveals as well a deepening appreciation of photography as a significant form of cultural expression. John Paul Pennebaker. Sealed Power Piston Rings, ca. 1934.... View Details

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Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond

Initiative As one of the top research universities in the world, Harvard is committed to being a leader in sustainability. Many different schools across the university, from the T. H. Chan School of Public Health to the Graduate School of... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Merton Named University Professor

in Economic Sciences for his work on the valuation of stock options, had held the George Fisher Baker Professorship of Business Administration at HBS since 1988. The John and Natty McArthur University Professorship was established after... View Details

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. If you have resolved to exercise more, try ignoring what your peers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2002
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Books

The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck Geeks & Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders by Warren G. Bennis and Robert... View Details

September 2011
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The Wen Group

By: John A. Davis and Matthew G. Pillar

Three brothers that own and lead a second-generation family business in Hong Kong, encounter problems of nepotism and governance, and endure considerable conflict. The case asks how to resolve these family and business issues. View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Performance Effectiveness; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Conflict Management; Corporate Governance; Leadership Development; Hong Kong

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September 2000
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Atherton Clothing Company (B)

By: John A. Davis and Andrew Z. Tubman

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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August 1981 (Revised March 1986)
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PDI

By: Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld and John A. Davis

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Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising

1996. Harris, E. P. “Random Thoughts on Trade and Advertising.” Inland Printer , vol. 8 (December 1890): 202—203. Hawkins, G. H. E. Poster Advertising . Chicago: G. H. E. Hawkins, 1910. “High Art on... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs

Brightest Young Business Leaders by John Coleman (MPA/MBA ’10), Daniel Gulati (MBA ’11), and W. Oliver Segovia (MBA ’10) (Harvard Business Review Press) Recent Harvard MBAs share personal stories about assuming the mantle of leadership in... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2000
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A Trusty Board

leadership skills to work as trustees. In fact, each of the people interviewed for this article works with a board member (or several) who is an HBS graduate. Witness John McCarter's answer to how he ended up at the Field Museum: "Two... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment