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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
worked with Vectographs during the war effort, signed off on an experiment conducted by researcher Eudoxia Muller in which she transferred a negative onto a positive image. 53 One of Clarence Kennedy's students who graduated from Smith... 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
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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
- 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
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
urged prospective home-buyers to save the entire purchase price before acquiring a home. In practice, however, most home-buyers and home-builders after the Civil War got themselves a mortgage—or three or four. By the 1920s, economists... 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
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
change—business leaders have entered a new era requiring new ways of leading. Traditional management methods seem no longer sufficient to address the volume of change we are seeing. I label this VUCA 2.0. In a 1998 report designed to train officers for the twenty-first... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Chandler observed. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918. A 1940 graduate of Harvard College, Chandler returned to Harvard after service as a Navy officer in World War II, earning his Ph.D. in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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A History of Women at HBS
LIBRARY In the years after World War II, the Management Training Program emerged, with a broader curriculum that encompassed organizational and administrative training. Fieldwork was also an integral aspect of the program. By 1956, when... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
manages $3.8 billion As part of the Polish underground resistance during World War II, André Jakurski's father forged documents to help those in danger change their identities. "My parents lost everything during the war," explains the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
hospital systems in New York, Chicago, and Boston pledged to confront inequities in hiring, leadership, and patient care. ‘Embedded in the fabric of this country’ Growing up in India, Chandra says, he absorbed a rosy idea of the United States—its victories in the... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Award for Teaching Excellence. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the Inaugural Hakan Orbay Research First Prize Award in 2015 for “Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War II Internment Camps” with Umit Gurun and... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
change on the competitive landscape. Highlights Absolute Advantage - Static of Production Frontier Water and Food Show Hide Details Concepts Trade Cross Border Investment Immigration Energy and Sustainability Peace and War Featured... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
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Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
of International Management Rawi Abdelal, titled “Dignity, the Populist Backlash, and the War in Ukraine: How to Imagine the Next Global Economy.” According to the club’s president, Raj Patil (OPM 42, 2012), approximately 60 people... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
from the Strategic Management Society. David B. Yoffie : Overall winner of the 2015 Case Centre Awards and Competitions for “Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2010” with Renee Kim (HBS Case 711-462) and also winner in the Strategy and... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
unprecedented to have a large cohort of people all over the world start working remotely at the same moment. The only parallel I can think of is from World War II, when waves of women entered heavy manufacturing for the first time. This... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
resulting void at the center of the business school curriculum eventually caused business educators to take a second look at the discipline of economics. Economics, in the decades prior to World War II, had occupied a relatively weak... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
Recent humanitarian crises—the Asian tsunami, conflicts in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq—are high-profile opportunities for NGOs. Is this a time to capitalize on strengths, or just to pitch in and be seen? What pitfalls do these... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
power compliment, where you don't even think they are working in their national interest. That doesn't mean if push came to shove, they would win a military battle, but the best kind of war is one you don't have to fight." Less... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding