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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

medium. Among the popular subjects were pensive portraits of Land and playful snapshots of Polaroid colleagues. The team ventured outside the laboratory as well into the surrounding neighborhoods where they captured views of everyday life... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

but not nearly as dramatic as a computer produced in 2000, which runs 10 million times faster than a 1960s' computer. Carr's graph on information technology stands as a subject lesson for Darrell Huff's well-known book How to Lie with... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

"When, for instance, a professor asked how a manager in a case should deal with the issue of a defective product, I had absolutely no clue. The only way I got through the program was to prioritize and really try to shine in the subjects I... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

Earn by: completing any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 5 Modules, 30-35 Hours Download full syllabus Introduction Lenses on the World Adopt a... View Details

09 Jan 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte

at HBS. You have 2-4 years to think about it during your deferral; it is low risk. Also, this is the best time to take your GMAT/GRE. Most people I knew applied to business school while working, which led to a lot more stress than I went through applying to the 2+2... View Details

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Frist Faculty Commons | About

Corporation, and today it is the leading provider of health-care services in the United States. HCA was the subject of a 2012 HBS case study. Thomas F. Frist Jr. is director of the Patricia C. and Thomas F. Frist Jr. Foundation, which... View Details

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

Dimensions of leadership The subject of leadership permits opposite conclusions to be drawn from the same observations and data... 24 May 2021 HBS Working Knowledge Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource? 29 May 2020 Center for... View Details

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

can be found to reduce bounded ethicality, most ethics "education" is missing a large part of the problem. In fact, one study found that ethicists who teach the subject are less likely to return library books associated with... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
Teaching Note

Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree

Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details

Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America

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15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

age where it was possible to allow data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a short span the pendulum swung from big data being a big deal to becoming a big hype. As is usually the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

06 Dec 2017
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Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

it has acquired Whole Foods, the market value of US big name retailers selling foods immediately drops 10 to 20 percent. The exchange of information and news, fake or fact, among large segments of the world’s population is controlled by Facebook. We naturally “Google”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

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Sexual Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct | About

committed to maintaining a safe and healthy educational and work environment in which no member of the University community is, on the basis of sex, including sexual orientation or gender identity, excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

meaningful change and challenge the status quo. "HBS Online courses are excellent for anyone who wishes to learn more about a particular subject area or further develop their career." Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. [19] Power suppliers are also subject to risks and opportunities from regulations that address climate change, such as those imposed in Europe and New England that... View Details

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

performance," and reaches conclusions that might give pause to many who chase stars. Their subjects are top investment analysts (as identified annually by Institutional Investor magazine) and the organizations that develop and hire... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

a lifeline and to rely more heavily on the advisor's judgments. That's not necessarily a bad thing—in fact, it's reassuring to think that people who are unsure of their own judgment might reach out to a knowledgeable advisor. Unfortunately, Brooks also learned that her... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

21 Aug 2019
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What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

subject to subject, a measure they called “topic entropy.” The second machine-learning technique also looked at words, but this time divided them by positive or negative valence, or how much the speaker vacillated between positive and... View Details