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

negative. Part of the brilliance of Land's process lay in rethinking the use of the unexposed crystals. In his instant photography process, a hypo solution carried the silver from the dissolved grains and deposited it on the receiving sheet to form a positive print.... View Details

11 Oct 2006
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How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

recognize that there is an optimal dependency ratio range beyond which increasingly urgent action is needed to stabilize social costs and attract investment." Several interesting actions were suggested. Many involved the way in which... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2008
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THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

basically disengage from the work. Unfortunately, downsizing will remain a fact of life, which means that leaders need to focus on the things that get hit. Communication and collaboration decline significantly. So too does people’s sense of freedom and autonomy.... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

increase the productivity of our land and raw materials, what’s ahead of us is a fourth industrial revolution—a “resource revolution” that creates more alignment, stability and resiliency in our world. Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006) Managing... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

lower investment returns. Adjustments can be made in succeeding years, keeping in mind the long-term payout goals of balancing budgetary stability with the preservation of the endowment's purchasing power. Each year the Harvard... View Details

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

technology is launched externally for small businesses. After a corporate-wide restructuring, Bracaglia moved to Alphabet’s life science firm, Verily, where he worked on Liftware, a counterweighted spoon that maintains stability – a... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

may feel that they haven’t been able to provide the guidance that team members need to manage their work during the crisis. Some leaders have been too hands-off, leaving team members lost. Others have micromanaged in an attempt to maintain View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

policies, and for the overall legitimacy and stability of democratic regimes. In the United States, for instance, minorities are much less likely to vote than whites and young people are much less likely to vote than seniors. The trend of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

wasn’t secured by September 30, the remaining $180 million would disappear, giving Harmon and Enan just weeks to change more than a few hearts and minds. (Arguments used for denying and delaying the remaining funding often centered around the Egyptian government’s lack... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

balancing budget stability with preserving the endowment’s purchasing power. The Harvard Corporation approves the final amount each year. Funds within the HBS endowment and those of the other Harvard schools are managed by Harvard... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

American technology and know-how, governments' movement to be more fiscally conservative - make for a lot of stability and opportunity.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “There's great opportunity. Look at China; with more than a... View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information and safeguard the stability... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Crises Professor Robin Greenwood No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Over the past decade, researchers at Harvard Business School, through the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, have made tremendous... View Details

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Mastering Balance: How to Meet and Beat a Stronger Opponent

By: David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak

Keywords: Balance and Stability

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2022
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Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization

By: Rawi Abdelal

Every order is a bargain with disappointments and trade-offs. Thus is every order an unstable equilibrium. The first era of globalization, circa 1870–1914, created both international prosperity and domestic instability. That instability was fully realized during the... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Policy; Economic Systems; Balance and Stability; Europe; European Union; United States

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January 2023 (Revised November 2023)
Technical Note

Ethical Analysis: Honesty and Self-Interest

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Christopher Diak

Information asymmetry is pervasive in business and can often confer great advantage. This note distinguishes forms of deceptive behavior in the face of information asymmetry and aims to help students analyze their impermissibility. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Analysis; Balance and Stability

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