War On Terror - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

replacing one toxic worker, which is almost double the figure a company gains from hiring a “superstar.” A superstar in the top 1 percent of performers adds $5,303 in increased performance to a company’s profit, Minor’s paper Toxic... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

23, 2013 UNESCO, “Progress of Literacy in Various Countries, a Preliminary Statistical Study of Available Census Data since 1900,” (1953), accessed April 22, 2013 UNESCO “World Illiteracy at Mid-Century,” (1957), accessed April 21, 2013 UNESCO, Compendium of statistics... View Details

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

HBS is a big place. We think it’s one of the great advantages of our program (lots of students = lots of alums = a big global network for you to access). We receive a lot of questions about our size, like “with a first year class of 930... View Details

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

1965 41 By 1943, Edwin Land began to turn his thoughts to the post-war production efforts of Polaroid. The corporation had significantly expanded its research and engineering division for military activities and would need to focus on a... View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

less than a day for the war effort Atomic bomb ENIAC computer Penicillin used extensively to treat soldiers' infections Synthetic rubberx Influence: High 50 1950 s 19 Television sales expand dramatically Transistors used in portable... View Details

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the washtub, marrying at the age of 14... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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Outdoor Spaces | About

have served their country in times of war and peace. The granite wall is intended to inspire us to reflect on the enduring contributions of veterans and others who have dedicated their lives to service, and... View Details

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

administered over its trade began to diminish. After the end of the First Opium War in 1842 and subsequent Treaty of Nanking, additional ports were open including the newly formed British colony of hong Kong. By 1843, the Canton trade... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Chandler observed. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918. A 1940 graduate of Harvard College, Chandler returned to Harvard after service as a Navy officer in World View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

Moss thinks; his own opinions are hidden behind a scholarly calm and the quiet joy he takes at playing devil’s advocate. This is a question of what the historical record—here, the case, filled with exhibits on View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

power has on the psychology of those in power: It makes them overconfident and susceptible to hubris, and it makes them more self-centered and insensitive to others,” Battilana says. And if a CEO can’t or won’t cultivate humility and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

young boy for dismantling a phonograph, from then on "nothing or nobody could stop me from carrying through the execution of an experiment." 6 As a child, he was drawn to the beauty and utility of chemistry and optics. Kaleidoscopes and... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate through... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

Working Paper

The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa

By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

We examine the long-run consequences of a neglected aspect of colonization, the artificial drawing of borders during the Scramble for Africa and uncover the following empirical regularities. First, apart from the land mass and water area, no other pre-colonial trait... View Details

Keywords: Africa; Conflict; Development; Ethnicity; War; Development Economics; Geography; Africa

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

at the firm, served as a director of a number of its portfolio companies, and became one of the leading women in the US venture capital field. A steady stream of individuals who trained at HBS entered the Quartermaster Corps, and Doriot... View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

worked with Vectographs during the war effort, signed off on an experiment conducted by researcher Eudoxia Muller in which she transferred a negative onto a positive image. 53 View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

Great Depression, when foreclosures on residential properties soared alongside farm foreclosures. Scholars still know relatively little about the American real estate industry before World War II. The U.S.... View Details

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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Depression to the war years to the post-war boom, photography served as a persuasive tool in PR campaigns focused on promoting goodwill and a favorable attitude about policies concerning the corporation’s... View Details

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