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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
three factors that predict neighborhood improvement. First, neighborhoods that are densely populated by college-educated adults are more likely to experience physical improvements—an observation that is compatible with the economic literature linking human View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
suggests that economic clusters—usually used to explain development in local economies—have had a much wider impact on world economics than generally recognized. Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Valeria Giacomin calls clusters “the building blocks... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
academics call transactional “friction.” As a result, decisions are made and implemented faster and at lower cost, something critical in an age where speed takes on greater and greater value. At a 2019 business conference, Brian Chesky,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
some kind of conspiratorial development that was imposed by manipulative entrepreneurs trying to make women feel a certain way. It was much more organic and part of a huge social transformation." Church And Capital One of the secrets... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
work. I also learned that spending an hour talking to your girlfriend on the company phone when the boss is trying to call in is a quick way to get seriously reprimanded. Kwinters customers had two options: a ready-made steamed dog or a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
Download Jonathan Nelson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Providence, Rhode Island 1977 Earns BS, Economics, Brown University 1977 Joins Wellman International to work in China 1983 Earns MBA 1983 Joins Narragansett View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
firms had “slack,” but not through changing investments or accruals. These incentives are driven by the prestige associated with the index rather than capital market benefits. Back-of-envelope estimates suggest that the index accounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are generally sound, and hedge funds... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
reaching into the billions. Then one evening he got a call from Noubar Afeyan, managing partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm that started Moderna, asking Bancel to swing by the... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
Finance II, students learn about the Rule of One Price, or why two people do not always pay the same. Students learn what professor Peter Tufano calls the "Matrix of Imperfections" in the capital... View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
much too slowly, often after most of the damage has been done. Jack Welch has written about the phenomenon of what he calls "jerks" or "bullies" from his own experience. At GE they were referred to as a "Type... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
business models and journalism, to support news organizations, and raise the capital to effect large-scale structural change in the industry, says Hansen Shapiro. Currently a senior research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Innovation Outside the Boundaries
Kent Thiry and Denise O’Leary (both MBA 1983) Noting the accelerated pace of change in society today, venture capital private investor Denise O’Leary (MBA 1983) calls innovation in the MBA curriculum “the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
positive print shortly after exposure of the film within the camera." 44 In a memorandum dated December 23, 1943, Frederick J. Binda, a research chemist, recounted, "On December 13, 1943, Mr. E. H. Land called me to one side and said he... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
Massachusetts. Their Cerezyme plant runs twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, and produces six kilos of product in all that time. You could fit it in a little six-pack bag. But it is sufficient to treat the 6,000 people around the world—and that's all there... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
Fridge No More, Buyk, and JOKR have either gone bankrupt or suspended operations in the US in spite of $4 billion in venture capital investment last year. This brings to mind the failed investments in fast logistics that accompanied the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture View Details