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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

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

including The American Railroad Journal (established in 1832); the New York Times (1851); The Stockholder: Monitor of Finance and Industry (1862); The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (1865); and the Wall Street View Details

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

three-color printing processes. In general, color printing was more complicated and expensive than black and white, and its results less reliable and “realistic.” Trade journals essentially considered black and white “preferable to lurid... View Details

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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

profits and losses, tracking pricing, assessing standardized procedures, and improving technology. Henry Varnum Poor, author of A History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States (1860), editor of the American Railroad Journal... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class. Marco E. Tabellini : Recipient of the 2020 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Journal of the European Economic Association . Marco E. Tabellini :... View Details

17 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

billion. A 2015 Wall Street Journal exposé, which became the bestseller “Bad Blood,” led to several criminal and civil probes, and sanctions imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Theranos dissolved in 2018. Prosecutors must... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies

28 Sep 2020
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How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in July 2020. She co-authored the study with recent doctoral graduate Michael Rosenblum and Assistant Professor Juliana Schroeder, both of the University of California, Berkeley. A... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Article databases: Which to choose?

articles may include charts/images. Includes alert service. Academic Search Premier Yes Best for interdisciplinary scholarly literature. Some articles may include charts/images Business Source Complete Yes Yes Similar to ABI/Inform; each has View Details

13 Sep 2021
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Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings that cite View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Winter 2021
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By: Michael A. Wheeler

This issue of Negotiation Journal is dedicated to the theme of artificial intelligence, technology, and negotiation. It arose from a Program on Negotiation (PON) working conference on that important topic held virtually on May 17–18. The conference was not the... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Information Technology; Negotiation; AI and Machine Learning

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

decentralized nature of building and financing homes posed obstacles to private organizations who tried to do the same. Anecdotal accounts, like this feature in the Ladies Home Journal in 1903, suggest that most home-buyers cobbled... View Details

27 Feb 2017
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Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

This is important because drivers of long-term survival remain comparatively undertheorized. There is little theory on whether mechanisms of competitive advantage are sustainable, replicable, and relevant to survival that persists over generations and centuries. Nor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
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John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures

Journal reporter Geeta Anand. An early version of the story is also told in the HBS case, “A Father’s Love: Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,” by HBS professor Richard Bohmer and Bradley Campbell (MBA ’02). Crowley gave the film “two thumbs... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the European Central Bank. She serves on the editorial boards of the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. Professor Ivashina... View Details

13 May 2022
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Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

show that this aggregation of information is not only a leading indicator of violations of rules and regulations, but it’s even a leading indicator of the whistleblower complaints themselves,” Campbell says of the study that resulted, which is forthcoming in the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

05 Aug 2015
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How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

in the August 2015 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, the paper was co-authored by a team of behavioral economists and psychologists: Jooa Julia Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University; Francesca Gino, a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

required). Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A. "Shedding Light on the Hawthorne Studies," Journal of Occupational Behavior , vol. 6, 1985. Full text available as a networked resource (valid Harvard ID required). Trahair, Richard C. S. The Humanist... View Details

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Molly Welch

cases and even the necessary transition to online learning. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A writer, either a novelist or a journalist. I loved books and was always interested in government and public policy. I thought View Details

24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Establishes Advisory Board Foundation, precursor to CityBridge Foundation 1997 Purchases National Journal 1999 Corporate Executive Board (CEB) IPO 1999 Purchases the Atlantic 2001 Advisory Board Company (ABC) IPO 2011 Helps free American... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Jay Bhandari

compilation of their favorite quotes for me to live by during school. I've journaled a few sentences every day since I started at HBS, so I'll be leaving with a compilation of my own! How have diverse perspectives in your section... View Details

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