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Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Emerita; Co-chair, Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative Video Recording Why Women Won 4:00–5:00 p.m. EST Speaker: Claudia Goldin , Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences... View Details

December 2009 (Revised April 2012)
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Neoprene

By: Tom Nicholas and Felipe Tamega Fernandes

In 1931, during one of the worst economic crises in U.S. history, Du Pont announced the discovery of an innovative rubber synthetic product—neoprene. Yet at the time of the announcement, Du Pont did not have any neoprene to sell. Manufacturing facilities were still... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Business History; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Chemical Industry; United States

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Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details

Keywords: e-commerce industry; education industry; health care; information; internet; legal services

14 Feb 2019
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Entrepreneurial Journeys of the 2018-19 Blavatnik Fellows

18 Apr 2013
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Professors Discuss Meaning of Presidential Leadership

11 Sep 2013
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Gautam Mukunda on Syria and Presidential Leadership in Times of Crisis

30 May 2013
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Harvard Business School Celebrates 103rd Commencement

15 Apr 2020
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Creating a Fearless Organization With Amy Edmondson

11 Jan 2017
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How do we solve the crisis in cancer communication?

Shirley Huang

Shirley Huang is a doctoral student at the Technology & Operations Managmenet Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests include data-driven decision making and human AI collaboration. Shirley graduated from Cornell University with a dual... View Details

06 Mar 2021
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How to Upgrade Judges with Machine Learning

Jan W. Rivkin

Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation

12 Nov 2018
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Precision Medicine Has Transformed Cancer Treatment. Here’s How to Move It Beyond Oncology

2023
Working Paper

Money, Time, and Grant Design

By: Kyle Myers and Wei Yang Tham

The design of research grants has been hypothesized to be a useful tool for influencing researchers and their science. We test this by conducting two thought experiments in a nationally representative survey of academic researchers. First, we offer participants a... View Details

Keywords: Research; Power and Influence; Money

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John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media

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Business Economics - Doctoral

harness it toward practical applications. Your coursework culminates in a written exam administered jointly by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and HBS at the end of your second year on two special fields of study. In... View Details

10 Jul 2023
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

generally refers to spiritual dryness, or profound loneliness and doubt. The best social science indicates that across the globe, our communities are becoming lonelier and less fulfilled. John of the Cross teaches how to find deep meaning... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Aug 2009
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A Decision-Making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future

Keywords: by Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman

2002
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Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Marc Ventresca

This book brings together emerging perspectives from organization theory and management, environmental sociology, international regime studies, and the social studies of science and technology to provide a starting point for discipline-based studies of environmental... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Regulation

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