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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

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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Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Moreland, Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School Digital Photography Boston Photo Imaging Imaging Services, The Harvard College Library Susan Young A-V Production Northern Light Productions... View Details

Spring 2020
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The Future of Platforms

By: Michael A. Cusumano, David B. Yoffie and Annabelle Gawer

Platforms power the world’s most valuable companies, but it will get harder and harder to capture and monetize their disruptive potential. View Details

Keywords: Platform Businesses; Platform; Strategy; Digital Platforms

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January 2015
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The Blonde Salad

By: Anat Keinan, Kristina Maslauskaite, Sandrine Crener and Vincent Dessain

In 2014, Chiara Ferragni, a globe-trotting founder of the world's most popular fashion blog The Blonde Salad, and Riccardo Pozzoli, her co-founder and business partner, had to decide how to best monetize her blog as well as her shoe line called the "Chiara Ferragni... View Details

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The Business History of India & South Asia - Creating Emerging Markets

1990s. The conference highlighted new sources available for research, especially digital resources. At the core of the event was Harvard Business School’s Creating Emerging Markets project, which has... View Details

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

Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and... View Details

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Archival Collections - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education Faculty Accounts Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School Jobs MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE POLAROID FILMS RESEARCH LINKS Digital Archival Resources... View Details

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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Course Number 2227 Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions Final Project We talk to people to achieve success in every aspect of View Details

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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Weiss, “Real Estate History: An Overview and Research Agenda,” Business History Review 63 (1989): 241–282. Leo Grebler, David M. Blank, and Louis Winnick, Capital Formation in Residential Real Estate: Trends and Prospects (Princeton: NBER... View Details

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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus Exhibition Team Laura Linard Melissa Murphy Melissa Renn Heather Oswald Clarissa Yingling Christine Riggle Elena Ruggiero Conservation Team Debra Cuoco Candace Kang Lisa Clark Editing... View Details

December 2018 (Revised March 2021)
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Modern Automation (A): Artificial Intelligence

By: William R. Kerr and James Palano

This primer is meant to be a field guide to the late 2010s' surge in business use of "Artificial Intelligence" (AI), or enterprise software based in machine learning. First, it provides an overview of the key trends—digitization, connectivity, the continuation of... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Digitization; Connectivity; Computing; Future Of Work; Automation; AI and Machine Learning

06 Dec 2021
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3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987)

I had worked at a consulting firm where Reader’s Digest was my client, so I got to learn a lot about the business and the people prior to joining the first time. Thankfully, I was not there during either of the company’s two bankruptcies.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; publishing; digital transformation; change management; leadership; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

July 2017 (Revised July 2018)
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Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud

By: Dylan Minor and David Yoffie

Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to redesign its business model. While the firm has been growing rapidly since the merger of Odesk and eLance, the newly combined firm continues to face problems of... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Platform; Platform Businesses; Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Labor

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Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First Big View Details

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

Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge Harvard Business School Executive Education More HBS YouTube: Executive Education Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School Contact... View Details

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

Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE POLAROID... View Details

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

January 16, 1855. HC: HP-1, p. 31. Digital Accessibility Contact Baker Library Historical Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone:... View Details

August 2018 (Revised October 2020)
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Tailor Brands: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Branding

By: Jill Avery

Using proprietary artificial intelligence technology, startup Tailor Brands set out to democratize branding by allowing small businesses to create their brand identities by automatically generating logos in just minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills... View Details