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The Idea of Instant Photography - 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... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

and lawyer, has worked with underserved populations around the world. “At our house, every dinner table discussion was like a BGIE class,” Dasgupta laughs. “I grew up influenced by both my parents — I'm very interested in the private... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

salaries and other fixed costs. Diagne’s work now focuses on crafting economic-recovery and emergency youth-jobs plans; working with the Health Ministry to set up a local vaccine manufacturing plant and... View Details

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling shortchanged. Even though team... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

14 Sep 2018
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10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

After receiving my degree in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University, I lived in Austin, Texas for 2 years while working at Amazon. I held a role as an engineering project manager launching new... View Details

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

his team were bringing business rigor to the institution.” The inspiration arrived at the most opportune time. “NPR was a formative experience in which I learned two things,” says Mizuho. “First, I discovered that I enjoyed working for a... View Details

08 Mar 2022
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Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

emphasize that gender is far from the only identity that matters in cases. It’s critical that the protagonists whom learners encounter represent racial and other forms of diversity beyond gender, but we weren’t able to extend our analytical View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

24 May 2018
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Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

distance in some ways, it has grown it in others. As the authors observe, “For example, while information technology may be an effective means of coordinating ongoing projects and collaborations, it may be less effective as a means of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Nov 2021
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The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

United Record Pressing plant in Nashville and Erika Records in Los Angeles that might have 20 machines, which do a lot of work for the major record labels. The major labels don’t own their own means of manufacturing anymore, and they’re... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

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Patrick Mullane | About

portfolio. Before earning his MBA, Patrick served as a captain in a U.S. Air Force intelligence organization. He has also been an early employee of a technology startup, managed Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions’ Washington DC market, and View Details

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

actually created the technology. Talk, Inc. discusses a project at EMC, a Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based storage networking company with more than 40,000 employees. In 2009, the company employees produced a book about the lives of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2023
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Turning Point: Listen to the Music

Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details

Keywords: music; film; purpose; career

19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Dusty Register

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? Skillset and network diversification after having worked in a relatively narrow career field for the past four years. I was hungry for a new challenge, especially one that would open... View Details

Keywords: CPG

08 May 2023
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How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

Index from 2009 to 2021 to efforts by minority entrepreneurs to raise money on Kickstarter, which has raised $7.3 billion for popular projects such as opening restaurants and publishing comic books. “You can compare quarters within the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

12 Jun 2018
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In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

creating, at great time and cost, a successful therapy, and then beating long odds to win FDA approval, the rewards can wane as quickly as a patent expires. And most drug candidates wash out long before even making it to market. That said, finding View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

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AASU50 - Alumni

Series ), 1990/1999 Carrie Mae Weems, The Hush of Your Silence , from Who What When Where , 1998 Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled from The Louisiana Project , 2003 In addition to these works in the Schwartz Art... View Details

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Meagan Hill

Meagan Hill enrolled in Harvard College with the intention of going on to medical school. But through her work at Harvard Student Agencies — a conglomerate of nine businesses that offer students hands-on business experience — she... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

10 Feb 2016
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Combining an Interest in Music and Business

supposed to not have a day job? Should I actively avoid having a stable income and the safety of working for a large company? Coming from Perú, where the music industry is still in a very incipient stage, I grew up under the influence of... View Details

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