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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
profits and losses, tracking pricing, assessing standardized procedures, and improving technology. Henry Varnum Poor, author of A History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States (1860), editor of the View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51619 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment By: Edelman, Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
teaches Business, Government, and the International Economy in the MBA Program, cites several periods in history when excess capacity has been blamed for economic upheaval. Emmons says that "accurate business forecasting is never really... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 29 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
- February 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Regulating Radio in the Age of Broadcasting
By: David Moss, Marc Campasano and Colin Donovan
When the Titanic tragically sank on April 15, 1912, potentially life-saving help was delayed as a result of failures in radio communication. In part as a result, Congress moved swiftly to regulate radio, passing the Radio Act of 1912 four months later. Although at... View Details
Keywords: Radio; Regulation; Communication Technology; Government Legislation; History; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
Moss, David, Marc Campasano, and Colin Donovan. "Regulating Radio in the Age of Broadcasting." Harvard Business School Case 716-043, February 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture , 1884–1929 . “Businesses, especially manufacturing and communications industries at the forefront of both labor activism and welfare capitalism, responded... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
of Business, Fordham University. Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2014 Award for Academic Excellence and Alternative Investment Research from the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association. Josh Lerner : Received the Excellence in Refereeing Award, View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
invented. Now, the average American adult is inundated with digital messages each day. With all this correspondence, capturing a busy reader’s attention is more challenging than ever. Faculty Books How the Harvard Business School Changed... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic View Details
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
fairer, while many European and American women prefer a dark tan. “This is an issue that manifests in many different societies,” Deshpandé says. “Although this case study originated in India, the issues it deals with are universal issues... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
reluctance has hit Black Americans particularly hard since they have seen historically higher arrest rates, often fueled by racial discrimination, research shows. But it might be a good time to rethink those hiring practices and the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check
practice.) It’s not just Berman’s own history and hope for the future success of children that motivates him—he notes that there is real science behind his belief. In 2000, for example, researchers found that 120 hours of chess... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon