Northeastern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

said. Mele wondered about the implications for public policy if we can no longer think of the US population as a single public. The nation’s founding documents make an explicit assumption that there is a “public” (“We the people,” states... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

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

United States in 1938 and came to work at Polaroid, had received a patent for an "Apparatus Employing Polarizing Light for the Production of Stereoscopic Images." The Vectograph consisted of an image for the... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

development in the United States following her graduation from HBS. She fell in love with what was then Czechoslovakia during a visit to Central Europe and moved to Prague in 1991. "I worked in economic... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2008
News

A Binary Formula

scientific knowledge into commercial applications. For HBS participants, an overriding goal was to gain a better understanding of how the School might best contribute to this effort. “To maintain a leadership position globally, the United... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

governments on the cost savings her program can provide. She says Reset is working to scale up toward a cost structure that is more affordable than prison {which in some states can cost more than $100,000 per year per inmate), with... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2003
News

Rural Renewal

products account for 1 to 2 percent of total food sales in the United States. Reade’s business is mostly wholesale, selling to one organic distributor, two local health-food stores, and two restaurants. “The community of organic farmers... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Crop Production; Agriculture

17 Mar 2011
News

Make or Break for the USA?

Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Manufacturing

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Mar 2016
First Look

March 29, 2016

institution’s patient portal. Conclusions. As healthcare costs continue to rise in the United States and around the world, a value-based approach with explicit, transparently reported patient outcomes will... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

after the fall of Saddam Hussein. After the United Nations headquarters was bombed in Baghdad, most UN officials and nongovernmental organization (NGO) workers fled the country. That left the US military tasked to build schools and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

must be like to be a celebrity. I wrote a case study on Maria Sharapova, and her agent allowed me to shadow her for a day and a half. I saw her receive an award and give a speech at the United Nations, interact with sponsors, attend a... View Details

Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

digital turnaround was Justin Smith, a young, up-and-coming media professional with the ability to forge new alliances between editorial content and technology. “That recruitment was hard,” he recalls. The two met for dinner in 2007 at the Carlyle, a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

10 Mar 2011
News

Philanthropy’s Dilemma

of their money to philanthropic causes. To date, 57 billionaires, including several HBS grads, have joined the campaign, committing upwards of $125 billion to charitable causes. Here’s the rub. It’s hard to spend all that hard-earned money wisely. In fact,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

opinion on their side, and they had friends in high places. In October, Go-Jek’s Makarim accompanied Indonesian President Joko Widodo on his first state visit to the United States. One of the stops was in... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

Think of Maytag and Lloyd's Bank; both companies have prospered by focusing on their home markets of the United States and Great Britain, respectively. Telefónica de España, a midsize telecommunications... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

21 Mar 2019
News

Helping Veterans Build Careers

designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in... View Details