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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “All that should be necessary to get a good picture, is to take a good picture, and our task is to make that possible.”... View Details

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Bridgette Slater

specific path. Coming to HBS is like... ...a prolonged summer camp. HBS is overflowing with the unbridled enthusiasm of students eager to deepen our self-awareness, explore beyond our comfort zone, and develop meaningful relationships with View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

countries and industries. In line with the model’s predictions, we find that integration and delegation covary positively, and that producers are more likely to integrate suppliers in input sectors with greater productivity variation.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008

Sugar Limited Harvard Business School Case 508-038 Until industry deregulation in 2006, Queensland Sugar ran Australia's single-desk marketing system for raw sugar exports. Since deregulation, eight of the ten Queensland sugar millers have elected to continue View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

of the industry in terms of adopting AI. Is the industry mature, with infrastructure already in place to collect data and ready to implement? Are industry stakeholders willing to adopt AI? Do they agree with you on the value of potential... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

to set up their Mission Related Investment Program. Key Themes: Knowing how much to ask for and when can sometimes be as important as the ask itself. Making large institutional changes towards MRI is challenging, though significant strides can be made with View Details

25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

from Medical Device Recalls By: Ball, George P., Jeffrey T. Macher, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—When innovations are successfully commercialized into new products, they can create value for both consumers and firms. When products... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

tuition in fiscal 2022 was $73,440, flat with fiscal 2021. Combined tuition and fees for fiscal 2022 were at the bottom of the peer business schools tracked by HBS and amounted to 14 percent of the School’s total revenues. From an... View Details

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

buy your products and why, and predict when disruption will happen. The course equipped me with new ways to think about problems, products, businesses, and just everything in life. Daniella Patrick Innovation Lab View Details

08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

the effects of ethnic ties on the aggregate volume of trade or the effects of ethnic ties on foreign direct investment (FDI) at the country level. In this paper, we add to the large and important collection of literature on the subject by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

Source: peterhowell Although many people claim we have entered the era of big data, research firms tell us that most collected information is never used. It sits uncleaned, unanalyzed, unused in databases. But when data analytics is used... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

addition, we encourage you to collaborate with your peers to find answers to any questions you may have. We appreciate your understanding that HBS Online faculty and guest experts featured in our courses are not available to communicate... View Details

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

Bean, the U.S. Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), AT&T's Bell Laboratories, the Timken Companies and General Electric's Change Acceleration Process (CAP). L.L. Bean has long relied on inquiry as a source of learning to deepen its understanding of... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands of firms. Different firms will design and produce the different components of a complex artifact (like the processor,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2023
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Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

containing a small black nugget of rare earth minerals. He is focused on decarbonizing and on-shoring the production of minerals just like this. Part of that work uses waste from mines, called mine tailings. The woman sitting next to him... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

dropped. Similar situations have transpired with the advent of digitized photography, use of radio frequencies for various handheld IT appliances, and the development of such products as elevators that call in to the service center or to... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

traditional organizations for coordinating the collective efforts of creative workers. However, it is surprising that they result in any productive output as individuals often work without direct monetary... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

"signaling incentive," include the "career concern incentive" which refers to future job offers, shares in commercial open source-based companies or future access to venture capital, and the "ego gratification incentive," focused on a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

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