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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

rendition. Instant photography put users in command of an art form in which they could create, compose, and share images instantaneously. "By making it possible for the photographer to observe his work and... View Details

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step View Details

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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Polaroid Camera Demo, ca. 1950s EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life View Details

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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library

vast archive. In 2016, the exhibition At the Intersection of Science and Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation—The Formative Years , celebrated the opening of much of the collection to researchers . The exhibition traced Polaroid from its entrepreneurial... View Details

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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant View Details

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Polaroid, McLean and Smith advised the company on the potential, design specifications, and monetary value of Edwin Land's new instant photography system that would be commercially released in 1948. Their... View Details

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From Concept to Product | Baker Library

photography that year, Land acknowledged the considerable expenses involved in the commercial launch of the new medium and his hopes for company earnings to pass the break-even point. (1) Eudoxia Muller, one of the early researchers with... View Details

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Research Resources | Baker Library

1905–2000 (Series III) Records of Polaroid scientists documenting the manufacture of innovative products during World War II and the creation and development of instant black-and-white and color photography. Photographs and Correspondence... View Details

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing... View Details

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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step... View Details

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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

to produce polarized materials, Land was counting on a new initiative to reenergize and propel the company’s growth in peacetime. 8 Land conceived of instant photography in 1943. While on vacation with his... View Details

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Artist Support | Baker Library

cultural significance of instant photography among Morse, Adams, Kennedy, and Land came full circle in 1973 when Polaroid opened the Clarence Kennedy Gallery to house and exhibit the Polaroid Collection. The... View Details

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Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library

and missed her when she was gone.” 7 Within Polaroid’s interdisciplinary and innovation-focused culture, Morse was able to reflect deeply on technical and aesthetic solutions to the advancement of instant View Details

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

Edwin H. Land, b. V.33, f. 19. Test photographs taken by Polaroid employees capture the close quarters and camaraderie of the company’s Cambridge laboratory, where early experiments in instant photography... View Details

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

Digital Exhibits All Exhibits From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969 Explores the extraordinary career of Meroë Morse—a key contributor to the development of instant photography,... View Details

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Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

importantly, mindset. Photography firms like Nikon, Canon, or Kodak, coming into this new arena, think about it very differently than Sony or another consumer electronics firm or HP or Intel as computer industry firms. So given the biases... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

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