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

21 Sep 2023
HBS Seminar

Pinar Ozcan, Saïd Business School

2012
Working Paper

Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within the SSRN community

By: Jevin D. West, Michael C. Jensen, Ralph J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon and Carl T. Bergstrom

In this paper, we show how the Eigenfactor® score, originally designed for ranking scholarly journals, can be adapted to rank the scholarly output of authors, institutions, and countries based on author-level citation data. Using the methods described herein, we... View Details

Keywords: Body of Literature; Measurement and Metrics; Networks; Rank and Position; Research; Motivation and Incentives

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Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed

By: Michael Parzen, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng and Jessie Li

This is a case about a fictional New York beverage company called Fizzy Fusion. The business is facing supply chain and inventory management challenges with its new product, SparklingSip. Despite seeking help from a data science consulting firm, the machine learning... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Production; Risk and Uncertainty; Analytics and Data Science; Food and Beverage Industry

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08 Jan 2009
News

Harvard Professor Robert C. Merton to Receive MIT’s Muh Award

02 Nov 2010
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The Heated Debate Over Proxy Access

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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

into our lives, as well as the lives of those we love. Video Recording Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Speaker: Amy Edmondson , Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management As the push to... View Details

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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

John D. Dionne

John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details

06 Aug 2018
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Women Are More Likely to Die From a Heart Attack If Their Doctor Is Male

26 Apr 2018
HBS Seminar

Olav Sorenson, Yale University

2011
Book

Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence

Getting to Giving is based on Stevenson's many years as a donor, fundraiser and entrepreneur. The book offers practical techniques and real life stories, and brings passion and humor to the art and science of asking for money. Topics included in the book... View Details

Keywords: Fund Raising; Fundraising; Non-profit Management; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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