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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

the following subject line: IMPORTANT: Project directory on the Research Grid is 99/100% full Please first see if you are able to archive any data using the instructions here . If you are unable to clear a significant amount of space,... View Details

08 Mar 2018
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HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

of black alumni; an academic symposium in March 2018; a Baker Library exhibit focused on the history of African Americans at HBS and a permanent HBS African American archive at Baker Library; a documentary film featuring prominent... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar

chance to be an agent of empowerment in this process. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. For more information or to find... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

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Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library

at his desk, February 21, 1966. HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Faculty and Staff. Harvard Business School. olvwork390680 Curriculum description. Radcliffe College Management Training Program Catalogue, 1947-1948. Harvard-Radcliffe... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

Wedgwood's archives in Staffordshire, Koehn had hundreds of pages of information on the company's founder, on mid-eighteenth-century popular British culture, and on customer loyalty. At Wedgwood, she found the first examples of money-back... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City

an effort to connect with a broader audience of alumni, conference plenary sessions were livecast on the Internet and have been archived on the HBS Web site. Those who missed the conference can directly access the sessions on the Web at... View Details

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

persuaded the Polish State Archives to allow them to index his family’s ancestral town. “Four months later, I went to Poland with a printout of our entire database of 40,000 record entries. The reaction of the archives’ director was one... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

tackles one of the most difficult questions in the startup world: How can you tell if a new business will succeed? The Year’s 10 Most Popular Articles from Our Archives What Is Management’s Role in Innovation? (31,511 visits in 2015) It's... View Details

25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

it was achieved. These results clarify our understanding of the correspondence bias using evidence from both archival studies and experiments with experienced professionals. We discuss implications for both admissions and personnel... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

sunglass lenses, camera filters, and desk lamps. Clarence Kennedy in studio, ca. 1930s. Polaroid Corporation Corporate Archives Records, b. IX.39, f. 5. Among the early creative consultants to Polaroid was art historian Clarence Kennedy.... View Details

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

28-29. 12 McCown, 4-5. 13 William Draper, III, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurs video archive transcript, December 2010, 2, accessed October 3, 2014. http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/pdf/bill.draper.pdf . 14 Gupta, ed., First Venture... View Details

22 Feb 2018
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My First Job

just, like, I said, my whole career. So when I interview people for jobs with my company, I always ask them about their first job and what they learned. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It... View Details

16 May 2018
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How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

Prisoners were housed in old stone barracks and newly constructed huts made of corrugated iron. The researchers examined the corporate archives of three German multinationals that employed the largest number of people interned in India... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

02 Jul 2010
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Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

capitalists anymore profit is just another archival number to be doubted." One argument for measures other than profit as "direct" goals is the complexity of the corporation and the difficulty of drawing a direct line... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Mar 2008
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The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

literature and a community of scholars, has a narrow and a broad definition. The narrower definition includes researchers such as myself who do primary archival research on the history of business, who belong to the societies, and who... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly different patterns of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Several key themes emerged and are discussed in this article. Many of the reasons for failure point to specific process changes that can be used to improve recruitment and prevent failure. Business Archives and Overcoming Survivor Bias... View Details