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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE POLAROID... View Details

    Leonard S. Riggio

    Riggio founded the Student Book Exchange in 1965 and turned this small book store into a leading retailer. He acquired the venerable Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York in 1971 and adopted its name for his expanding company. Through... View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • 07 Feb 2019
    • News

    New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes

    Photo via the Chicago Sun-Times / provided by Noble Photo via the Chicago Sun-Times / provided by Noble Constance Jones (MBA 2008) understands the importance of demonstrating change: As detailed in the... View Details
    • 03 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

    investments from overlapping funds, left the Berkshire team in a difficult situation. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-034 Fair Value Accounting Controversy at Noble Group... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Fall 2021
    • Article

    When to Go and How to Go? Founder and Leader Transitions in Private Equity Firms

    By: Josh Lerner and Diana Noble
    Leadership transition in private equity firms is an understudied field, despite the important, albeit controversial, role such firms play in developed economies. We analyzed 260 firms in an empirical study, supplemented by qualitative interviews with a small sample of... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Transition; Private Equity; Leadership; Management Succession; Analysis
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    • 01 Feb 2002
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    Top Ten Cases: Research from Around The World

    publication date) sold between twenty and thirty thousand copies in fiscal year 2001. “Leadership Online: Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com (A),” by P. Ghemawat and B. Baird (9-798-063), 2000 “Dell Online,” by V.K. Rangan and M. Bell... View Details
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    Eric Justin

    I too should be great. That I should welcome personal sacrifice, be dedicated to noble causes, and make transformative improvements to people’s lives. But these biographies often overlooked the virtues of goodness I learned from my... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2011
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    Noted & Quoted

    with stories of humble beginnings and noble struggles against overpowering adversaries, providing underdog narratives for consumers.” — HBS assistant professor Anat Keinan describing the market power of “challenger brands.” (Financial... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

      Martha R. Ingram

      After her husband’s death in 1995, Ingram successfully managed the family business, making a series of bold moves, including the spin-off and public offering of Ingram Micro, the United States’ largest computer wholesaler. Today, Ingram Industries and Ingram... View Details
      Keywords: Services
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      Scott St. Germain

      people I inspire will, in turn, play a role in serving as a guiding light for future generations after my one wild and precious life has passed. Professionally, I'd like to serve as an example by demonstrating how work can actually be a View Details
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      Jake Cusack

      seen those things that separate war in the abstract from war in reality: how hard it is to successfully intervene in another country, no matter how noble the goal, no matter how great the effort. The difference between writing... View Details
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      Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

      Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “I have long aspired to make our Company a noble prototype of industry: penetrating in science, reliable in engineering,... View Details
      • 01 Mar 2004
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      Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value

      When Barnes & Noble rolled out a line of “store-brand” classic books last summer, the publishing industry gasped.The company aimed to provide consumers with high-quality books at prices significantly below what they would pay from... View Details
      Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
      • 01 Dec 1998
      • News

      Scott P. Mason Remembered

      in finance in 1980. Memorial donations may be made to A Better Chance, Noble & Greenough School, or Chapel HillChauncy Hall School, located in the Massachusetts towns of Wellesley, Dedham, and Waltham, respectively. View Details
      • 11 Sep 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Riding the Internet Fast Track

      companies with widely recognized brands. Eisenmann cites Barnes & Noble as a clear example of the latter. "It took Barnes & Noble 18 months to wake up to the threat posed by Amazon.com," he... View Details
      Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
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      Lucasz S. Babiarz

      in finance, accounting, business strategy, and leadership—"all the things," he says, "that aren't emphasized in medical school. Many doctors have noble or genuinely new ideas for medicine. But most of them are not... View Details
      • December 2012 (Revised October 2022)
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      Plastiq

      By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Gaurav Jain, Liroy Haddad, Luke Langford and Matt Noble
      The young CEO of a venture-backed startup needs to figure out his go to market strategy and the right profile for his first key sales hires. Should he develop partnerships with channels that would provide leverage or build out a direct sales force? And should the sales... View Details
      Keywords: Payments; Sales; Channels; Credit Cards; Digital Platforms; Selection and Staffing; Cost vs Benefits; Salesforce Management; Marketing Channels; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Management Systems
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      Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

      SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE... View Details
      • 25 Jan 2012
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      Is Tax Reform Viable?

      secretary. Talk about a nonstarter: no way am I going to voluntarily pay more. That noble act would neither correct the unfairness of the system nor make much of an impact on the country’s unbalanced budget. Perhaps I could justify my... View Details
      Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government
      • 06 Dec 2021
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      In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

      manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York. (His grandfather and a partner invented the plastic watch crystal in the early 1900s.) What he discovered: “I learned what ‘real work’ is and that there are many noble ways to earn a living. I... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services