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- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
In 2021, US Foods faced a problem that has become all too familiar: As thousands of Americans re-evaluated their work lives in the middle of the pandemic, the company—one of the largest food service distributors in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
its own path to success. Rather than betting on a single product, Burton stitched together one market after another—first snowboards, then boots, outerwear, and accessories, adding new customers along the way. For companies like Burton,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
develop, and integrate smart minds governs how prosperous you will be.” Studies on whether immigrants to the United States take jobs away from Americans or constitute a drain on social welfare are mixed, says Kerr, with some research... View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
the country was producing only 10 percent of the world's watches. Yet Switzerland has reemerged as the global leader of watch exports (by export value), due to a newfound market demand for old-style mechanical watches. This curious... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
argues Mikołaj Piskorski, one of the world's leading experts on the business of social media. In A Social Strategy, he provides the most convincing answer yet, one backed by original research, data, and case studies from companies such as Nike and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
John, the charismatic chief marketing officer of Netflix (once described by Buzzfeed as the “coolest” person to ever go onstage at an Apple event). Research shows being true to who you are leads to greater professional performance and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Best Paper Prize in Asset Management from the Midwest Finance Association for "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" with Umang Khetan, Jane Li, and Ioana Neamtu. Ishita Sen : Winner of the 2025 Western... View Details
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
should government strategy matter to business people? It seems many executives, particularly Americans, believe government is incompetent. Richard Vietor: Business people care in several ways—macroeconomic, microeconomic, and foreign investment. An View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture , 1884–1929 . “Businesses, especially manufacturing and communications industries at the forefront of both labor activism and welfare capitalism, responded... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
notice and take action, according to the research, published September in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The study could provide an incentive of its own for businesses looking to attract and retain talent amid a brisk labor View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
save a marriage but one of trying to save their lives. Fighting to Belong: History of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders By Amy Chu (MBA 1999), Alexander Chang and Louie Chin Third State Books For many View Details
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
could develop only to a point.” 11 When color began to be added to the products themselves, advances in color printing and reproduction followed. Starting in the 1920s American consumers went from a commercial world of white towels and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
Kennedy’s youthful vigor overshadowed Richard Nixon’s flat pallor on American screens. Debates help candidates reach millions of voters in a single event, so candidates often prepare rigorously, hoping to gain an edge with undecided... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
shop” for employers and potential employees to find each other, even when labor markets are tight. But as hiring grows, tighter linkages between educational institutions and industry can yield better economic outcomes for workers and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011). Abstract Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
filters that would reduce glare. The following year, Land-Wheelwright Laboratories entered a contract with the American Optical Company, a major manufacturer, to produce sunglasses, marketed as Polaroid Day... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally, despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace