FIELD 2 - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Request the Data - Leadership

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Request Data in Excel Spreadsheet Before we release the Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century database to you, we must receive this form. The database you will receive includes additional data View Details

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Events - Business History

recent book. This is an in-person event. Lunch will be served. Feb 10 10 Feb 2025 Business History Seminar "Oceans of Desire: A Preliminary Hodology of Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa, and Tobacco" Scott Reynolds Nelson (University of Georgia), 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Dec View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

Walker’s (MBA 1995) experience with anger management therapy transformed his life and career Higher Returns Author and CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) on how conscious consumers are redefining the economy Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) in the Hot Seat: Episode View Details

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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits The China house was ultimately a go-between, an economic mediator spanning both geographic and cultural distance. — Stephen Lockwood, Augustine Heard and Company , 1858-1862 2 Doing Business with China:... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

with almost $1 billion in venture capital, provided 2 billion bicycle rides, soaked up the majority of the bike manufacturing capacity in all of China, and then, in July of 2017, hit pause. The proximate reason for halting their purchase... View Details

20 Oct 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

cases per day, each 10-60 pages in length. Not only do you have to read the case, but you also need to prepare answers for discussion group questions. In parallel, you will be working on your consulting project in an emerging market (as part of View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Equation Accounting Principles and Rules Formal Definitions of Accounting Terms Featured Exercise Demonstrate how different transactions impact the accounting equation 8.5 hrs Module 2 Recording Transactions Understand where financial... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

margins of academic discourses and their own institutions. There was a constant struggle to define the borders of the field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

return, and payback period 3 hrs 2 weeks Exam The CORe final exam is a three-hour, multiple-choice, closed book assessment created by HBS faculty and delivered via the HBS Online course platform. The exam is offered to participants after... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

School Tonasket, WA MA Sabra Brown Boston Latin Academy Boston, MA Subjects: U.S. History 2 (1877-Present); AP US History MA Sonya Brown Boston Arts Academy Boston, MA NC Will Brown Millbrook High School Raleigh, NC Subjects: American... View Details

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Delimiters - Research Computing Services

When we export this data to a text file, it would appear as: Line 1: Column_1 DELIMITER Column_2 DELIMITER Column_3 Line 2: 25 DELIMITER Harvard Way DELIMITER Boston, MA Often, the comma is used as the field delimiter. In this example,... View Details

15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

with Stanford University Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor Sinan Aral of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and two LinkedIn employees and recent Stanford and MIT Ph.D. graduates Karthik Rajkumar and Guillaume Saint-Jacques, involved more than 20 million... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 21

analyzing the relevant processes. Part 2 discusses strategic choices, what research tells us about selling effectiveness, and how to translate a strategy into customer-selection and sales-call criteria. Part 3 focuses on core sales... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Recently, I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast where Dr. Andrew Huberman interviewed Dr. David Buss, a founding member in the field of evolutionary psychology and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

too often, when graduates of these programs enter the workforce, they find themselves unequipped to meet the challenges for innovation of 21st century health care. December 2014 Article No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on... View Details

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

points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Policy 37, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 231–258. With Scur, Daniela, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos, and Nicholas Bloom. The Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Communication Patterns , Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9,... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Rounding the Bend

which collects used garments in Europe. “And as long as that’s the case, we have a problem.” It’s one of several, perhaps. The World Economic Forum estimates that the $1.5 trillion apparel industry is responsible for a 2 percent share of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Explore the idea of value drivers 5 hrs Module 2 Adding Value Through Complements Understand the difference between complements and substitutes and discover the power of complements as a competitive advantage. Highlights Pricing... View Details

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

invention and creativity within the culture of a small, science-based research and manufacturing company. He argued that the industrial process should be "dedicated to the discernment of deep human needs." 2 His philosophical insights... View Details

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