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Skydeck - Alumni

on how conscious consumers are redefining the economy Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) in the Hot Seat: Episode 2 Case studies in crisis management and what it takes to motivate the next generation of talent Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) in the Hot Seat:... View Details

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Events - Business History

of Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa, and Tobacco" Scott Reynolds Nelson (University of Georgia), 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Dec 2 02 Dec 2024 Business History Seminar Seth Rockman, (Brown University) “Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery"... 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

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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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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

instrument that will both disrupt traditional business models and potentially preserve them. The early works of William Abernathy on roadblocks to innovation and Richard Rosenbloom on technology and information transfers in the 1960's and 1970's started the Technology... View Details

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

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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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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

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

like time value of money, terminal value, net present value, internal rate of 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... 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

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

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

transactions impact the accounting equation 8.5 hrs Module 2 Recording Transactions Understand where financial statement information originates. Highlights Journal Entries Building a Trial Balance Show Hide Details Concepts Journal... 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

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

01 Dec 2023
News

Rounding the Bend

Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details

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

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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

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

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Marijk C. van der Wende Abstract— Recent geopolitical events, such as Brexit and the retreat from multilateral trade and cooperation by the USA, have created waves of uncertainty, especially in the field of higher education, regarding... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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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

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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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