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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
housed a negative and a positive sheet on two separate rollers. His drawings, often produced in whimsical renderings, illustrate the mechanisms of the system. 55 The negative moved past the lens box during exposure and made contact with... View Details
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
our radar. Second, it was a forcing mechanism for us to rapidly iterate on our go-to-market narrative, and clearly communicate both the opportunity and distill the value of our technology to an audience from an array of backgrounds. What... View Details
- 08 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
How I Chose My HBS Recommenders
My name is Ali. I’m an EC in the MBA program, and I’m from Syria. I was born in Los Angeles, where my parents were living at the time, but spent my formative years in Damascus. I attended Boston University where I got my BS and MEng in View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
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ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
The voluntary carbon market can be an effective market mechanism to channel climate financing to some of the poorest regions of the world and provide a viable mean to accelerate climate actions. However, access to the carbon market is not... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
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Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
personal caregiving obligations is an approach employers almost entirely overlook as a mechanism for maximizing employee productivity and minimizing turnover,” the authors write in the study, which was released Wednesday. With almost... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
to evolve and its timeline remains uncertain, leaders and their teams must continuously evolve as well. Periodic relaunches are the only structured mechanisms to give teams the ability to pivot together quickly. “With every relaunch,... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)
When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
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By: Ayelet Israeli
Professor Israeli utilizes econometric methods and field experiments to study data driven decision making in marketing context. Her research focuses on data-driven marketing, with an emphasis on how businesses can leverage their own data, customer data, and market data... View Details
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 16 May 2005
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Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
them. She worked with government agencies because that was a mechanism to bring greater resources to serving her community without having to bring resources into her organizational boundaries [i.e., through fundraising]. Furthermore, she... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
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Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
shifting sense of priorities. Born in India, he went to boarding school in England and earned a degree in mechanical engineering at Manchester University. After graduating from HBS with distinction, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25
Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Jul 2012
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Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Use of the Board Set-up - How did you think about or approach this problem? - Did others approach it differently? A few words about the broad approach Mechanics Stage 1 - What formulas, processes did you use and why? - What were your key... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
satisfaction. In the mid-1950s their studies culminated with the publication of The Foreman and the Assembly Line and Turner's influential Harvard Business Review article, "Management and the Assembly Line." Both these works demonstrated how assembly-line technology,... View Details
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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 19 Mar 2012
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HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
improve. Future research, Neeley says, includes exploring the role of language as the mechanism by which companies transform from a domestic to a global player-the fulcrum of language. When teaching the Rakuten case at HBS, where 35... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 15 Oct 2007
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Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
treats market share as the result of building better cars more cheaply than its competitors, and not as an objective in and of itself. Its globalization has actually been driven by a complex array of coordination mechanisms across... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
captured by this data. For Heese, whose work focuses on the governance mechanisms that are most effective in reducing misconduct, this study raises larger questions: Once a community loses its paper, is there another way to keep a check... View Details