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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
thriving economic engine for blacks. With a vision of economic self-sufficiency, she established a newspaper in 1902, chartered the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1903, becoming the first woman bank president in the United States, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
daughter, and it faced the bracing, debilitating winds besetting the entire magazine and newspaper industry. Linda Johnson Rice now had to decide what to do with the company’s publications and brands. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
there was a question about whether that would be a detriment - people might think that I was buying the election. The local newspaper took a poll and asked, "Are you offended by Herb Kohl spending his own money to run for office?"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
found the environment here not as welcoming as it might be." When the issue was explored with the students, administrators discovered that many of these feelings of exclusion were prompted by the absence of foreign-language newspapers in... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
preference to quality over quantity and designing smaller, more consistent bundles may be beneficial. In general terms, the same probably applies to other industries where digital channels could lead to an unbundling of products, such as book or View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
How can the layoff process be conducted better in the future?" To that end, Sucher has posted a listing on the HBS Working Knowledge Research Exchange, inviting managers to get in touch with her directly to share their tales from the field. Former View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
broadcasting station. Ibaraki prefecture had only one broadcasting station, including TV and radio, so that studio had a monopoly on the airwaves. So we bought a station from Asahi Shimbun newspaper company and turned it around, making it... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lessons or definitive answers. But somewhere in the two-day span we spend talking with villagers, sharing their food, and sleeping in their homes, perceptions shift. It’s one thing to read a newspaper article about the impact of... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
newspaper sales, with little foundation in what's really important to know about a school. Q: What do you do in your spare time, if you have any? A: Sailing is an early passion that I continue to enjoy. When I have the opportunity to... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
separates the viewer from the tropical images and colorful Caribbean scenes suspended in the background. A moving meditation on belonging and the challenge of reconnecting with one’s roots, this work expresses the artist’s feelings of living between two places. As... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
stories. With the proliferation of books and newspapers in the late eighteenth-century, and then perhaps even more markedly in our own time with the explosion in bytes, stories, which were an essential mode of communication for many... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
distinguished advertising work in North American newspapers and magazines. The awards focused on numerous elements including effective campaigns, innovative marketing research, 29 and, as Bok wrote, the attainment of “a higher standard of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
easy to feel secure about your character. We all know it is wrong, for example, to lie, cheat, steal, or break the law. Yet I trust you have learned — through courses like LCA and through scenarios like the scandals you read about in the daily View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
efficiency engineers — how would we spend our leisure? The problem has bothered social scientists/statesmen, ministers, newspaper editors, and reformers, even though we are not yet even in sight of Utopia. It is supposed, at least by... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
of upgrades in freemium companies, and the six questions that new business enterprises should explore when considering the freemium model. The article mentions how four companies including NYTimes.com newspaper and Dropbox cloud storage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
Indian art as a legitimate category of fine art. Newspapers and magazines (both general interest magazines as well as dedicated art publications) in India and abroad began to write not only about the auctions, but also about the art... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
downturns. Q: What particular entrepreneurial activities seem to be making the best of the bad economic situation and seemed poised for future success? A: I can think of several. But you don't have to look very far; just read the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details