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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
toward the war effort included the production of quinine. Natural quinine was derived from the bark of tropical tree in Java, but this source was cut off by the Japanese occupation. Polaroid sponsored the work of MIT graduate Dr. Robert... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
makers or B2B service businesses, which is a growing segment. “Decisions we make over the next several years will influence large parts of our financial services systems.” Only a relatively tiny number of US small businesses are the high-growth ones View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
diversification to long-term investors do not recede when the source of increased global return correlations is correlated discount rates. Empirically, we document a secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock returns... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
interactive online demonstration enables first-hand exploration of the parameter space (www.mpmlab.org/groups), and available source code (supplementary materials) provides a guide to implementing psychological agent-based models.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
men applied to join the venture; another source put the number of candidates at five thousand. Bridges Adams, an acquaintance who directed an acting company, remembered a conversation in which Shackleton explained his views on hiring. The... View Details
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
from these sources also helps fund need-based fellowships for talented students whose financial circumstances might otherwise dissuade them from pursuing an HBS degree. In fiscal 2025, the School has... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
bridge and an express railway link to the central business district, represent a $20.1-billion investment. Two-thirds of the funds are coming from government, Lam noted, while the remainder is being sourced... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
and has held top posts at Time Warner, the Penguin Group, and the Walt Disney Company. As reported in Variety, “(t)he Fund will contribute on a sustained, long-term basis to organizations on the front lines of the fight for equity,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
he began to share his insights more widely with family, friends, and students. In this groundbreaking book, Christensen puts forth a series of questions: How can I be sure that I'll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that my personal relationships become... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
staff, and graduate students affiliated with Harvard Medical School are already world class and at the top of the medical research game, with approximately $1.4 billion in annual funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
systems built by our forbearers and work toward a more just future. Marketing Alternative Investments: A Comprehensive Guide to Fundraising and Investor Relations for Private Equity and Hedge Funds By Hemali Dassani (MBA 1999) and Nandu... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
and vertical mergers. Our model highlights a collective action problem: what is good for an individual firm is often not good for the cluster. We speculate that this conflict may be a source of strategic tension in platform firms.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
This paper presents a model that can reconcile these apparently contradictory perspectives. We show that if the source of long-term advantage is modeled as a stock of capability that accumulates gradually over time, a firm's proclivity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
be able to coordinate their actions when messages' arrivals at their destinations are sufficiently correlated events. Correlation serves to fill in information gaps that arise when players are uncertain of the source of message failure,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
sourcing decisions. This paper examines how the scheduling of inspections risks introducing bias that erodes inspection quality by altering inspector stringency. In particular, we theorize that inspection results are affected by (a) the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
get businesses to understand the kind of corrosive effects that this is having on our entire economy" While competition between the two parties looks fiercer than ever, in reality, the study suggests, both Democrats and Republicans benefit from having the other as... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
technical, financial, and administrative resources to these innovative clinicians and facilitates the development of the ideas so they eventually become medical practice. While successful on many dimensions, Parrish is faced with the dilemma of stable, long-term View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
seen evidence that renewable energy sources will get cheap enough, fast enough to slow global carbon emissions, particularly those from coal-fired power plants in China and India. "The Chinese and Indians are going to clean up their local... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Starved for capital in an environment where all the usual money sources had dried up, many major commercial property owners took their companies public in the form of real estate investment trusts (REITs), heretofore a little-used option.... View Details