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01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

IBM Authors: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson Publication: In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 2012... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

the eighteenth-century pottery and china manufacturer; H.J. Heinz, who started the famous food company in 1869; and Marshall Field, the late nineteenth-century Chicago retailer. Below, in Part Two, Koehn shares her thoughts on how three... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108011 PublicationsOvercoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs Author:Annamaria Lusardi, ed. Periodical:University of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2023
Supplement

Rheaply: Circularity For Every Business Supplement 2

By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani

Pitch deck explaining the later vision of the company that was presented by the CEO to potential investors. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Mission and Purpose; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago

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24 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

Data Authors:Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun Publication:Chap. 7 in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, edited by Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark J. Roberts. The University of Chicago Press, 2009 Abstract The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2021
News

Back to School

vaccinated. The situation on the ground in a Mississippi town versus a school in Chicago is going to be totally different, and Secretary Cardona is spending a lot of time traveling to get a sense of those differences. Ultimately, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 May 2021
News

Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

was another way to see some of that. Full marks to the Chicago team. They had a great concept, moderated it well, and handled all the details perfectly. I give it a 10 out of 10.” Sandy Damm (GMP 29), from the HBS Club of London, echoes... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2023
Working Paper

The Real Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Work Schedules: Evidence from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia

By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman

Effective in eight jurisdictions and banned in four, Fair Workweek Laws (FWL) aim to increase the predictability and stability of work schedules. Among other requirements, these laws penalize employers for unilaterally adjusting work schedules without providing some... View Details

Keywords: Working Conditions; Employees; Outcome or Result; Los Angeles; Chicago; Philadelphia

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19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

Foundation in Chicago did a one-hour speech. And the one-hour speech was imploring the audience in one of the prominent business clubs in Chicago to support financial reparations to the Black community. I'd... View Details

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

plants provides "a measure of informality and diversity " Reprinted with permission from Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education, by Michel Anteby, published by the University of Chicago Press.©... View Details

Keywords: Education

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

Wells & Richardson Co. advertisement, Chicago Dairy Produce 23, no.2, May 1916 Thus, winter butter is whiter than summer butter. It’s also arguably less tasty. “Because the flavor of butter was richer in the summer, there was the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

the Chicago public school system, as well as their parents to reinforce the concepts at home, and partnered with other local non-profits and organizations. “While at HBS, I am excited to learn from other social entrepreneurs about new... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

her recent appointment as director of the prestigious Univer-sity of Chicago Press. She has leveraged a Mellon Foundation grant to set up a digital printing facility and BiblioVault electronic repository that will enhance access to the... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

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Brian T. Bedol

an entrepreneur and we were all involved in his business and very proud of it,” Bedol recalled. Before he turned ten years old, Bedol would accompany his father to big trade shows in Chicago and reveled in being out on the convention... View Details

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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Photography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 110. 79. Wensberg, Land's Polaroid , 17. 80. Edwin H. Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1976, 5. 81. Buse, The Camera Does the Rest , 112. 82.... View Details

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Complex Number Calculator is demonstrated by George Stiblitz 1941 A. Philip Randolph threatens march on Washington to protest racial discrimination in defense jobs 1942 Enrico Fermi's University of Chicago team produces the first... View Details

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2007
News

Up from the Ashes

very long trips, he preferred to go by rail. He did not board his first airplane until 1937, flying from an academic meeting in Chicago to Miami for a midwinter vacation. He wrote from Miami that he half-expected the plane to crash during... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

aims to make a one-time sale and hence can be quite insistent. This is the door-to-door salesman and the canvasser. Then there is the relationship-oriented salesperson. The classic instance of this was the traveling salesman who worked for a New York or View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

16 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

charity that will sap the strengths of the profit-maximizing corporation, while journalist Martin Wolf maintains that the maximization of profit is far from universally accepted, and rightly so. Chicago Nobel laureate Gary Becker wonders... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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