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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
started planning that school, now known as Year Up. Headquartered in Boston with sites in three other cities, Year Up’s mission is to help “disconnected youth” access real career opportunities through an intense year of training in professional and practical skills in... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e., better precision of across-firm information) than to changes in information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
almost double. These results suggest a role of brokers in fostering predatory behavior and raise a red flag for regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
also taken some steps to level the playing field by making consumers more aware of the resources they have. In 2015, FINRA launched a national ad campaign to highlight its BrokerCheck service, with spots on cable that show, for example, a... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
leaders. The ECLM was followed by the School’s Campaign Celebration, where attendees joined Dean Nohria and more than 250 alumni and guests at the Natural History Museum in London to celebrate the conclusion of a successful campaign. HBSA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location decision between Tokyo, Japan, downtown San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California, regarding establishing a small unit for the purpose of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
independently operating silos and the filtering of information as it passes up through the hierarchies. Political vulnerabilities contribute to predictable surprises when a small number of individuals and organizations are able to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
rise of private equity here and abroad hasn’t gone unchallenged. The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether buyout deals involving multiple private-equity firms are anticompetitive. In Europe, critics are View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing a new economic formula based on stimulating consumer consumption. More recently, there was an anticorruption campaign that created... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
2013 elections in Kenya, the Electoral Commission sent 11 million nonpartisan text messages to registered voters in an effort to boost electoral participation. The messages had a positive effect on turnout but also decreased trust in Kenyan electoral institutions. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
example, how well consumers were able to recall a brand name after commercials have been run—but not much more. The effectiveness of marketing investments was rarely directly tied back to sales. This has completely changed with the revolution in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
result, sponsorship does not close the gender gap in competitiveness or earnings. We discuss how these insights from the laboratory could help to inform the design of sponsorship programs in the field. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to inform policymaking” Last spring, Toffel sought to change that by taking the unusual step of convening academics and government regulators in the same room for a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608080 Bidding on Martha's Vineyard (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-044 To buy a desirable Martha's Vineyard property, Robert and Sally Franklin must craft a bidding strategy View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
for tactical purposes, such as promotional campaigns. Its management team is thinking about how to incorporate that information to the budgeting (profit-planning) process. From an analytical standpoint the case looks at the surprising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
Diversity in the Workplace Harvard Business School Case 407-029 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407029 Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
to break down silos and provide a unified body of knowledge to inform public policy. Two proposed legislative agenda items from an earlier version of the group’s white paper were voted into state law last year: making the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
to complete the manuscript of Silent Spring, which documents the effects of pesticides such as DDT on the environment and the campaign of misinformation surrounding their use. “Leaders are obligated...to translate View Details