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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
1965 41 By 1943, Edwin Land began to turn his thoughts to the post-war production efforts of Polaroid. The corporation had significantly expanded its research and engineering division for military activities and would need to focus on a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
Permanente; and to his decision to follow his passions. "Make sure you do what satisfies you," he advises. "If it's just for the money, it won't work." A graduate of the Air Force Academy who grew up in a military family, Jones developed... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
government officials. “My observation was that senior military people have, in the course of their careers, received significant additional training in management and leadership,” Cox says. But the State Department, he noted, had few... View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
companies to compete. The reality is much different in developing economies, where the rule of law might be poorly enforced, social anarchy flourishes, or the military runs the government. So, it is quite remarkable when entrepreneurs in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Rio de Janeiro 1969 Earns BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering 1974 Earns PhD, Economics, University of Chicago 1974 Named... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
studying and raising Ren. But, as Kaz deeply thought about my life and encouraged me to continue to pursue my career, I was able to come here at HBS. Kamal, Class of 2021, & Ashley Wheeler Ashley and I met during our freshman year at West Point. We were both... View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
easily shared more broadly. Limit the power of gatekeepers. Look to Antarctica, not the Amazon. Both ecosystems are of vital importance to the global community. In the case of Antarctica, a 1961 agreement known as the Antarctic Treaty System made the continent... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
pick up our hero, Jim Barton, at a latter point in his career, as he's offered the opportunity to lead the transformation of a struggling medium-sized military aircraft company into a successful twenty-first-century commercial airplane... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
his father, a military man, telling him that his job is like being the captain of a ship. "I think that's the way everyone else felt, too," says Kang. "A sense of loyalty to the hotel, a sense of responsibility to the... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
insurance conglomerate. He left a legacy of openness to new technologies, a commitment to employee training, and a collaborative style of leadership that had transformed the company. His success at USAA followed an equally impressive and lengthy View Details
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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About
of alcohol at any given event to accommodate one (1) drink per hour for each guest. State law requires all guests to show valid photo identification before being served (a driver’s license, valid passport, or military ID). In the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
officers—some of the military’s most senior leaders—sometimes assume that great officers leave the military for the private sector because they want to make more money. In reality, some of those officers move on because their needs have... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Low 40 1940 s 19 Military spending explodes Graduated income tax, Victory Tax adopted to fund war effort Rationing Influence: Medium-Low 50 1950 s 19 Military spending shifts to nuclear deterrents Small... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
balance—the ability to embrace both the divergence that may characterize early discussions and the unity needed for effective implementation. Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire and a renowned military leader, understood... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
odds were not already against us, my decision to join the military put a strain on the time we could spend together and challenged our relationship. This past July we welcomed our first child, more than 13 years after we started flirting... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Blog Post
The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS
compassionate, selfless students and faculty. Giving birth at the beginning of my EC (second) year while my husband, a military officer, was stationed 3,000 miles away from me was not part of my plan. But after years of struggling with... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
who became a close friend. Together with another friend, we led the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Student Association (GLBSA) during our second year, which was a tight-knit group of about 15 members. We objected to President Larry Summers’s decision to allow View Details
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Judges - Alumni
as an Infantry Platoon Leader in the US Army in North Iraq from 2008 - 2009, and is a graduate of several military schools, West Point, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ben is also a volunteer or board member with: Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
not being able to do things that are important to you,” he says, citing the fact that his family could not return to tend to his ailing grandmother as one example. In 2000, however, after the military government was replaced with a... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
in other spheres that are vital to the interests of society (such as law and government, military affairs, health, and religion, to consider the classic examples), modern societies have responded by creating the institutions that we know... View Details