Cambridge Camping Association - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

to shift performance to a high level. The Trek: Adventure and Enlightenment on a Climb to the Summit of Kala Patthar, above Mount Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas by David Schachne (MBA 1990) (Relevant Corporation LLC) Schachne tells... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

Production Board. From 1958 to 1962, Fox was director of research for the U.S. Commission on Money and Credit, which conducted a major study of the nation's monetary system. He was also a cofounder of the Cambridge Research Institute.... View Details

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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Mind in Action . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. Dobbin, Frank. Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Dunlavy, Colleen A. "Organizing... View Details

08 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Staying Connected to the Harvard Veterans Community After HBS

during an on-campus visit before I applied, and I also connected with HBS's Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) through their club web page. Through the page, I was able to speak directly with AFAA Veterans for admissions advice and... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Decline by Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills Cambridge University Press This book reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

self-expression, it is also a carefully and thoughtfully organized pop up city of 70,000 people with a $36 million budget. Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) is the woman who controls that budget, serving as Burning Man's treasure. And in this episode of Skydeck, Raiser talks... View Details

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing Gleason’s name and image pop up... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

01 Oct 1998
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Tech Trekker

In the middle of her second year at HBS, Ilene Lang sat in the MBA Program Office trying to convince an administrator to let her take a documentary film course at MIT for credit. As she made her pitch, then Associate Dean of Student... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

15 Apr 2015
Blog Post

Subverting Career Trajectories

As part of our "HBS Takeaways" series we’re interviewing some of our second year students before they embark on the next chapter of their lives. Clay Wiske attended Columbia University and the University of Cambridge before... View Details

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

patients, and 12% of total Medicare spending are associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49218 Stock Price Synchronicity and Material... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: EF Education First

opportunity to travel the world while helping others do the same. How long has your organization been recruiting at Harvard Business School and what roles do you hire for? Harvard Business School graduates have been instrumental in the success of EF’s North American... View Details

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Publishing Platform) An autobiographical story of a boy whose life was radically changed in the prison camps on Java during World War II. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, a violent Indonesia revolution forced the evacuation of all... View Details

18 Jul 2014
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Team Players

HBS. He lost, and Blumkin, who was struggling to see a career path out of sales, headed for Cambridge to find out how the case study method might change her game plan. "For a young woman who had grown up in a remote village in Vermont's... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Datar greets incoming MBA students at the Dean's Welcome in Klarman Hall. Professor Matthew Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program and Jana Kierstead, Executive Director, MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

1917). Full text available as a networked resource. Wassam, Clarence Wycliffe. The Salary Loan Business in New York City (New York, 1908). Full text available as a networked resource. Credit Men's National Association (U.S.) Retail et... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

College. She is a member of the Academy of Management, has served on numerous editorial boards of academic journals, and is a past associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly . Lakshmi Ramarajan Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C.... View Details

21 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 21

customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly-traded firms, we show that firms are significantly more likely to trade with countries that have a strong resident population near their firm headquarters. We use the formation of World... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

incumbents must ensure that they do not become self-complacent but instead look to renew themselves through corporate entrepreneurship (sometimes also called intrapreneurship). Many books and articles document the overall importance of corporate entrepreneurship and... View Details