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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
today. Meanwhile, from society's point of view, meanwhile, professional closure offers distinct benefits when the privilege of closure is granted in return for the commitments that true professionals make to serve the public good and to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
community. In terms of funding, we provide Spark Grants and Social Impact Fellowships. Another source is the Allston Venture Fund, which is a syndicate of venture capital firms that invest in some of the companies. Additionally, there is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Thanks to the influence of one of his physics instructors, George W. Wheelwright III, the department granted Land his own laboratory, an unusual resource for a young undergraduate. 11 At a Harvard Physics Colloquium in 1932, Land... View Details
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
federal lands were surveyed and one tenth were set aside as land grants for railroad development. After the Civil War, state government subsidies began to be replaced by more substantial federal aid. Other major infusions of capital came... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
support as well.” That includes patents that were supported by federal grants and patents that relied on previous patents or publications that the government funded, directly or indirectly. (Yao and his colleagues’ research was itself... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
reorganization, managers can steer firms into liquidations that harm junior creditors, employees, and customers. Under Section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code, judges may grant that request without creditor consent if managers present a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities | About
live streaming, or other formats. Outside Media in the Classroom Media are not permitted in the classroom without the advance permission of the Office of Marketing and Communications; exceptions are rare and generally granted only when... View Details
- Research Summary
Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies
By: Tatiana Sandino
Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
customers. Any company pursuing the subscription model by taking its customers for granted should be pursuing another model." Another view is that Internet companies will return to the subscription model given their signal lack of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Why Get an MBA?
There are pros and cons to that reality, but we can be sure it won’t change any time soon. An MBA from HBS would grant me unparalleled access and open doors for anything I want to pursue in the business world, and often beyond.... View Details
- January 15, 2019
- Article
Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?
By: Josh Baron
The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details
Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage
Baron, Josh. "Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?" Harvard Business Review (website) (January 15, 2019).
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Data Storage - Research Computing Services
to accidental deletion or corruption, please contact RCS . Requesting a Project space Project spaces can be set up with faculty sponsorship and/or approval by filling out the New Project Space Request Form . The default size is 50GB, with increases View Details
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
network connecting patients, scientists, and clinicians, and increased multidisciplinary care at 32 Centers of Excellence at US hospitals. Cure HHT has recently turned $2M in seed grants into $51M in funding from the CDC, FDA, and NIH. It... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Technical Requirements Enrollment Academics Learning Tracks Costs, Grants & Financial Aid HBS Online for Organizations Certificates Pathways to Business Overview How are HBS Online courses delivered? We offer self-paced programs (with... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
Cambridge Associates, we are helping institutional investors navigate climate risk while funding innovative and scalable market-driven solutions to climate change.” Liqian Ma HBS MBA 2011, Head of Impact Investing Research, Cambridge Associates Valerie View Details
- 10 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service
passed, she wondered if military service could be how she could serve her country—as a first generation American, she had always wanted to give back to the country that granted her family asylum when they fled Cuba in the 1959 communist... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
keep up with the demand to treat patients every day. And that’s why Partners in Health turned to the straightforward time-driven activity-based costing system to measure the cost of treating a patient, with the help of a grant from the... View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
interpersonal skills often." Grant Stanley said "rather than dismiss them I have been able to use their skills and abilities to create training materials to share their best practices." Todd Stark mused about how much we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
unemployment rate, more than 4 million unfilled jobs, and millions of employed people debating just how much they want to work in their post-pandemic lives. The unfilled jobs exist even in the face of the fact that the US has granted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.