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- 05 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales
of Black and Hispanic residents, a metric they think could be important since listings in these neighborhoods tend to feature fewer photos with lower aesthetic quality and more often are handled by smaller firms. Location, location,... View Details
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Photography and Print Advertising - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920–1940 . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, p. 150. Elspeth Brown notes that “pictorialism’s aesthetic ideals were not inherently antithetical to commercial... View Details
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Profiles - MBA
it takes years or even decades for innovation to cross from the labs to the offices. I look forward to using the Tech Fellows Program as an opportunity to learn how to accelerate commercialization of science." Tech areas of interest Biotechnology, View Details
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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “Industry at its best,” Edwin H. Land believed, “is the intersection of science and art.” 1 A scientist and inventor, entrepreneur and CEO, View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
Aesthetics to Budding Business LeadersPauline Brown, a former top executive with French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, teaches a course called The Business of Aesthetics. Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion... View Details
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
like aesthetics from products that shape consumer-brand interactions. Finally, let me share a book that has touched my soul—The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. This is a science-fiction masterpiece exploring humanity's quest for... View Details
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
Johnston Gate, the grille was intended to be both aesthetically pleasing and practical. Anyone entering the building would see much of the library’s collections through the grille. In a closed-stack library, as Baker was at the time,... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
Portraiture is a method of qualitative research that blurs the boundaries of aesthetics and empiricism in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human experience and organizational life. Portraitists seek to record... View Details
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
much like core emotions, each deep metaphor may take many different forms. For example, balance may involve social, psychological, physical, and aesthetic themes. The small number of deep metaphors, each with many variations, and often... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
investigation was scientific and technical, "the aesthetic purpose is to make available a new medium of expression to the numerous individuals who have an artistic interest in the world around them." 59 In their early test photos, the... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
you working on next? Rob Austin: My work focuses on the role of aesthetics in business competitiveness, and I'm continuing to play around with the case as a literary form. I'm working on a project right now, for example, where we are... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
commutes. Dlodlo plans to set rents below market rate; yet the building, with its modern design and elegant aesthetic touches (the façade will evoke the patterns of traditional West African fabrics), will be one where Dlodlo would happily... View Details
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Laetitia Tiani Vessah
earnings. Her secret power is finding cool job opportunities across a range of industries & company stages. Her mission is to help you secure your bag! Work Experience: Procter & Gamble. Kapor Startup Fellow (pre-MBA internship), WSC & Company (fellowship), and View Details
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Surgical Procedures: by selected patient characteristics and procedure categories
Health Care Surveys for more statistics, e.g., National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery. For more specific types of surgery, search for related organizations/associations/society. e.g., The American Society for Aesthetic... View Details
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “I have long aspired to make our Company a noble prototype of industry: penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization
preferences (with the beauty industry as an example). According to panelists, globalization has a homogenizing effect on diverse national cultures. Its pressures cause societies to become more alike, converging in business approaches, political and economic systems,... View Details
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Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Chapter Images The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Message: Confidence in Corporate America Business is essentially our civilization, for it is the essential characteristic of our times. Henry Luce, 1929 The View Details
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Polaroid Corporation Collection | Baker Library
focus the formative years and trajectory of the company and the career of Edwin H. Land. A scientist and inventor, entrepreneur and CEO, aesthete and humanist, he argued that the industrial process should be “dedicated to the discernment... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details