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06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

business administration. STRATEGY Tip: Confront unknown unknowns in your strategic planning The term VUCA originated in the US War College to describe situations that are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. In this world,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit Augustine Heard & Co.’s formation occurred during the First Opium War (1839–1842). The conflict broke out between the United Kingdom and China in part over the transport and sale... View Details

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Colorless: American Photography and Material Culture Between the Wars . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1991, p. 6. See Stein, note 11, p. 119. “Margaret Bourke-White on Color Photography and Photo-Murals,” Commercial Photographer... View Details

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

didn't suffer while the Dr. John's team worked out the kinks. The company didn't have a huge war chest, but Osher had raised additional capital after the company's launch in order to pay for additional inventory once the product took off.... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

actually makes you better.” An idea taking root Despite the success of his firm, Brown had not been immune to brushes with bias. Growing up in a small segregated town in Florida after World War II, Brown recalled being awestruck by white... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

23 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11

get,” Nguyen says. “They need to know what the major consequences could be if a reallocation is handled poorly.” She outlined her findings in the March Journal of Accounting Research article The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

time-smart changes (for, say, teachers or health care and service workers). We need to convince business leaders that time affluence is a competitive issue. The war for talent will demand that companies take time affluence seriously. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

civilizations when we visited the 600+ year old Changdeokgung and Gyeongbokgung Palaces nestled in the middle of 20-year-old skyscrapers. South Koreans take tremendous pride in their past and it motivates them to build their country today. South Korea rapidly... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

forces (Navy) during the Vietnam War before attendingbusiness school. We were probably one of the last classes to have a high percentage of veterans. What is the most important thing you've learned about business since leaving HBS? It's... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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AASU50 - Alumni

Black Business Leaders Series (HBS Cold Call podcasts) The Road to Zero Wealth (Prosperity Now report, pdf) Racial Progress is Real, But So Is Racist Progress ( New York Times , January 21, 2017) Fighting Racism is Not Just a War of Words... View Details

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

section’s ability to bring together people who otherwise may not have ever gravitated towards each other. Where else can you find the son of a US Senator, a first generation college student from Arizona, a Canadian Olympic ping pong player, a former NFL cheerleader... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate through buildings without a pilot, streaming... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

product." 14 EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working... View Details

June 2022
Case

Mossadeq’s Gambit: The US, UK, and Iranian Oil Nationalization

By: Jeremy Friedman and Jingyu Liu

Many of the West’s political problems in the Middle East and in Iran in particular can be traced to the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh by military forces supported by the American CIA and the British MI6 in August 1953. Mossadegh, at the head of a... View Details

Keywords: Neo-imperialism; History; Conflict Management; War; Globalized Economies and Regions; Natural Resources; National Security; Government and Politics; Globalized Markets and Industries; Middle East; Iran

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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

The westward expansion of the railroad blazed the trail for transcontinental commerce in the second half of the 19th century. Entrepreneurs and capitalists like F. L. Ames, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Henry Villard increasingly invested in the... View Details

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

dreams. But these same politicians are consistently unwilling to raise taxes when required. The massive budget deficits run up during the last eight years of war (now projected at 3.8 percent of GDP in 2009) reflect a Federal government... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

the case details, by 1916, she turned her horror of the barbaric practice of lynching into a powerful campaign against it. Her efforts toward African American participation in international peace discussions after World War I attracted... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

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