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Commercialization 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... 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... View Details
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Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) Course Number 1587 Professor Kash Rangan Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Twelve 2-hour Sessions in Seminar Format Four small response write ups... View Details
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Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

supplies yet small businesses had to rely on expensive and inconvenient “mom and pop” stores for these. Thus Stemberg’s Staples was born: a new kind of supermarket specializing in office supplies, where... View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

professor of accounting at Howard University, where he taught for over 30 years. There he developed the marketing program and organized the Howard University Small Business Development Center. He joined the... View Details
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Robert Reiss | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

started out as a waiter at resorts in upstate New York. He moved on after graduating from HBS to run the personalized-pencil division of a small New York company. He saw that as an opportunity to learn about running a View Details
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Michael Danzi | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Michael “Mike” Danzi, HBS 1987, started his career in the Navy, as part of an elite reconnaissance submarine crew during the final years of the Cold War. He then came to HBS to study. After graduation Mike went to work in financial services, but soon realized he wanted... View Details
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Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty Background When I first got to Harvard Business School, I joined the Social Enterprise Club , and quickly realized that these students were my compatriots. These were people who had similar... View Details
  • February 2017
  • Case

Eve Hall: The African American Investment Fund in Milwaukee

By: Steven Rogers and Alterrell Mills
The case highlights the role of minority chambers of commerce and the background of Eve Hall, a well-regarded multi-sector leader asked to revive Wisconsin's African-American chamber. This case study examines the lending options that a minority chamber of commerce... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business Plan; Change Management; Demographics; Diversity Characteristics; Ethnicity Characteristics; Race Characteristics; Investment Fund; Cost Of Capital; Banks And Banking; Micro Finance; Interest Rates; Business Or Company Management; Management Styles; Management Succession; Mission And Purpose; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Leadership Change; Business And Community Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Wealth And Poverty; Organizations; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Small Business; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Decision Choices and Conditions; Employment Industry; Public Administration Industry; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry; United States; Wisconsin
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  • 28 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School

may be dizzying for anyone, but for Mitkevicius it’s all part of the job. Mitkevicius is part of the Harvard Business School team that organizes and oversees field courses for MBA students: the MBA Program Global Experience Office, or... View Details
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Scott D. Cook | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

today offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies manage their finances. In March 2001, Scott described his remarkable entrepreneurism in a video interview at his office in the heart of Silicon Valley.... View Details
  • June 2022
  • Teaching Plan

Pacesetters

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 322-019. City Sealcoating CEO Keith Chaney had just publicly called out the Boston Chamber of Commerce for their slow progress on their supplier diversity program, Pacesetters. Established in 2018 by regional business leaders,... View Details
Keywords: Minority-owned Businesses; Procurement; Racial Wealth Gap; Diversity; Small Business; Restructuring; Contracts; Goals and Objectives; Performance Improvement; Performance Evaluation; United States; Massachusetts
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  • January 2017
  • Case

Kada Orthopedics: A Bone of Contention

By: Kevin Schulman and Matt Strickland
Kada Orthopedics is a small implantable orthopedic device manufacturer founded by industry veterans trying to sell stable-technology products to an increasingly cost-conscious healthcare market. Although they have marginally successful product in early 2016, the... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Growth And Development Strategy; Health Care; Business Startup; Growth and Development; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Business Startups; Supply and Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

According to a new Harvard Business School report from Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and co-author Katherine Gehl, a former CEO and political activist, Washington’s proverbial “swamp” isn’t a set of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

said Harvard Business School Associate Professor of Business Administration Karim R. Lakhani. "The 2016 Faculty Research Symposium also looked ahead to major collaborations between Harvard’s school of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
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Philip Hendrickson | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Full Transcript (PDF) Philip “Phil” Hendrickson graduated from HBS in 1947. After a brief stint with a manufacturing firm in Massachusetts, he joined Krueger International, a small furniture business in his... View Details
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Paul Baier | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

then Open Market, where he saw an opportunity to serve small and medium-sized industrial buyers via the Internet. In 1999 PurchasingCenter.com was born. When the technical and logistical challenges of building an online service proved... View Details
  • 2019
  • Book

Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World

By: Howard H. Stevenson, Russ Banham and Shirley Spence
Problem Solving is the culmination of four years of research conducted by a small project team from 2015 through 2018 in collaboration with HBS alumni, students, faculty, and staff. Its broad and deep knowledge base is derived from a survey of 13 MBA classes... View Details
Keywords: Harvard Business School; Alumni; Influence; Social Responsibility; Humanitarianism
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  • 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
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  • March 2014
  • Case

Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
Considers the marketing and strategic challenges faced by natural beauty brands using the case of Australian-based Jurlique, which was acquired by Pola of Japan in 2011. The case opens two years later in July 2013 when Sam McKay, the chief executive officer, on a visit... View Details
Keywords: Australia; China; Environmental Strategies; Green Business; Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; China; Australia; United States
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