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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
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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

January 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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Learning Resources: Driven by Purpose

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Heather Poco

In January 2023, CEO Rick Woldenberg must make several strategic decisions for his family-owned toy company Learning Resources. View Details

Keywords: Change; Change Management; Ownership; Family Ownership; Leadership; Decisions; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Chicago; Illinois

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October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
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Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

impact on the organizations they lead. Hunting the High-Impact Leader From Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter By Gautam Mukunda In the middle of May 1860, delegates to the Republican National Convention met in Chicago to choose the... View Details

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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Art of Photographic Advertising: The 1934 National Alliance of Art and Industry Exhibition The photographs in this collection were part of an exhibition that displayed in Rockefeller Center, New York City and The Lakeside Press Studios in View Details

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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

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
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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
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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

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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library

“From Imbibition to Exhibition: A Reconstruction of a New Photographic Process,” Journal of the Franklin Institute 263, no. 2 (February 1957), 122. back to text See Peter Buse, The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography (Chicago: University of View Details

01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game

the best overall showing. Chicago and Stanford each disappeared from the top five in at least one ranking. And the London Business School showed up only once in the top five — as No. 1. Two questions leap from this jumble. How can four... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24

Publication:In Innovation Policy and the Economy. Vol. 11, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. NBER Book Series. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Abstract In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2024
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Alumni Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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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

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
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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

18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

management, and telemedicine. This note also contains a glossary of key terms and acronyms in this space as well as exhibits detailing unit economics, market dynamics, and key players. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/814033-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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