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- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
themselves (Study 2) at different income levels. Data from two national surveys revealed that while laypeople's predictions were relatively accurate at higher levels of income, they greatly overestimated the impact of income on life... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
attended virtual faculty research symposium. Innovation across the MBA Program continued in fiscal 2021, as the School delivered the first year of the new joint MS/MBA in Biotechnology: Life Sciences (a... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Businesspeople ignore this lesson at their peril—to survive, they must be entrepreneurial and think strategically. Yet in Schumpeter's view, the general prosperity produced by the "capitalist engine" far outweighs the wreckage it leaves behind. During a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
hugely personal, hugely emotional transaction. They don't want to see their family life as the stuff of markets. And they definitely don't want outsiders looking over their shoulders. And so they are highly unlikely to push for... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
inability of countries to sustain human life in geographies like India, Pakistan, the Sahel, the Middle East and Central America. She notes predictions that without decisive actions, by 2070, 30% of land masses, some 3 billion people,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
entrepreneurial path into healthcare. I wondered what would be possible if we thought about women’s health more expansively and holistically, beyond avoiding or achieving pregnancy. I entered the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
more likely to bid higher on an eBay auction when competing to buy a product? To test their hypothesis, Bos and Cuddy conducted an experiment at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, a university-wide research facility for behavioral... View Details
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
When science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dreamed of the metaverse—a term he coined in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—he envisioned a long city street that’s “always garish and brilliant, like Las Vegas freed from constraints of physics and... View Details
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
as by his words.” George E. Bates, "Polaroid Corporation," Harvard Business School Case 246-006, 1948 87 Edwin Land identified the intersection of science and art as the cornerstone of his research-based industrial enterprise, which began... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
political science and economics. Hustead returned to Alaska after graduation and in 1987 landed the top job of driller. At the same time, pressure was growing to help out at Wall Drug. “I made a deal with my brother that I’d come back by... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Revolution The Life Sciences Project at HBS Complete Table of Contents December 2002 The Campaign for Harvard Business School HBS Giving at All-Time High Think Globally, Teach Locally Bad Times for Business... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
ocean exploration. It’s an entire world that needs to be understood and is incredibly valuable to our existence. So that excites me a lot. This last year prompted me to think about the arc of life and death. I lost my eldest son in a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
2016 New York: Palgrave Macmillan Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents By: Kirby, William C., and Marijk C. van der Wende, eds. Abstract—This book highlights the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
section; some of it is in the Arts section and the weekly Science section. Business stories appear in all parts of the paper even when they are not labeled as such, including the Technology, Dining, and Real Estate sections, because... View Details
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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and steel in blast and open-hearth furnaces and foundries. The distribution of educational kits provided another vehicle for reaching elementary, junior high, and high school classes. For example, How Steel Is Made , a science kit created... View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land . Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1998. “Polaroid-Land Process Now Has Black and White.” U.S. Camera 13, no. 8 (August 1950): 42–43. Quick, Jennifer. “Designing Polaroid: Ansel Adams as Consultant.”... View Details
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 3 Modules, 25-30 Hours Download full syllabus 5-6 hrs Module 1 - 1 week The Fundamentals of Climate Change Understand climate change View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
be headquartered in England in order to achieve a lower corporate tax rate. The British government favored the merger as it would boost the high-priority life sciences sector, but little attention was paid... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
capacity to work across the public, private and nonprofit sector. They can set a big vision, rally people around it, and get things done. And they have a deep and abiding interest in helping people find their own true path.” Chelsea Banks (MBA 2017) became a middle... View Details