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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

while the SX-70 group made the final push to complete the design of a camera that would make the complex process of one-step photography possible and the act of taking the picture amazingly simple. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x... View Details

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

at baseline (18%, 28%, and 33%, respectively, p0.05 for interaction between race or job type and intervention). Mean calories per beverage decreased similarly over the study period for all racial groups and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An Evening with Dean Datar" events... View Details

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined Criteria. Without crisp, clear goals,... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

the bias belted tire, claiming that it conferred significant performance improvements and launched an advertising campaign questioning the benefits of radials. Firestone, Uniroyal and General Tire quickly followed Goodyear's lead and introduced their own belted bias... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

and password. Educational Information such as student identification number, courses taken and currently registered for, course progress, and course grade. Employment Information such as your job title and employer. Transactional... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Working the Street

Stripped to the waist in a clinic examining room, Mike, a burly white guy in his late 30s, is an illustrated man. His arms, chest, and neck are a tattooed maze of letters, numbers, and designs signaling his allegiance to the Aryan Nation... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

tools or using LSF job arrays . Requesting multiple CPUs on the HBSGrid When using parallel processing on shared compute systems, you need to indicate to the scheduler, the system software that manages workloads, that you wish to use... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

outcry from users, legislators, and the general public, to force the company to do a better job of protecting private information. In an initial response, Facebook informed its blog readers that it had suspended the consultancy from the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

Consumer bankruptcies usually climb alongside unemployment rates as filers seek to discharge debt and get a fresh start, write the authors of the new working paper Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis. “Historically, the number one cause of consumer bankruptcy filings is... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

understood her point of view. On campus I felt like I was in an environment that was intentionally designed to cater to and embrace people who looked like me. When I was there my skin color didn't matter and frankly, I didn't feel like I... View Details

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

for developing job descriptions and scoring candidates. Rethink your product development prioritization process. Make sure sales best practices are being disseminated systematically within the go-to-market organization. Fire unprofitable... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

own. Such a formula, he believes, has enabled his company to eliminate the "boarding-school issues" that take up 20% to 30% of managers' time—and that many formal change programs are designed to address. Often described as... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

global and a series of regional B Climate Collectives designed to support businesses to share what they are learning on topics such as how to move to a regenerative business model. How might you explore ways to reimagine your business... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

completion of the course. 5-6 hrs Module 1 Designing the Tech Startup Business Model Evaluate the quality of startup business models and understand the importance of aligning models’ different components. Highlights Daniel Choi, Plastiq... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

launched, Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) and the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). What is their focus, and what do you hope to accomplish through them? For many decades, business has been... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

risk not only doing too much themselves but also losing these valuable employees, who can become frustrated that they aren't being challenged to build their skills and careers at the company. If You Had To Design Your Company Today With A... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

the faster, smoother, more responsive, cross-functional process design that characterized Michael Hammer’s and James Champy’s pathbreaking work in the early 1990s. However, one could also make the argument that middle managers have the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

FabioFilzi Key aspects of corporate sponsorship programs, while designed to advance women’s careers, may end up widening the gender gap rather than narrowing it, according to new experimental research. “We’re not trying to say that... View Details