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- 12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
white men. When Ballard was a boy growing up in southeastern North Carolina, his father started a pulpwood logging company. “People would pay him to clear commercial and residential property, and he would take the lumber and sell it to... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
February 21, 1947, at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City, Edwin Land introduced the one-step photography process. "Land's introduction of the concept of instant photography was not a traditional commercial... View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
Founder, President, & CEO, Liatris “Liatris aims to deliver the cleanest and fastest energy savings by mass-producing insulation that is easy to install, economical, efficient, and environmentally friendly. Our first product is a fully non-combustible insulation board... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
Nunnelly and Dupré gift will dramatically increase innovation and the commercialization of new technologies and make it possible to efficiently take transformative ideas to the marketplace. Specifically, it will enable Harvard to attract... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
venture, which attracted interest from six mentors, a venture that attracted twice as much interest was 27 percent more likely to commercialize (which Shu and her colleagues defined as having multiple repeated sales, an Amazon storefront,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
case, lighter-skinned women have been favored in India’s ads. Advertisements in the 1980s told stories of dark-skinned women unable to find husbands until they applied fairness creams. Later, skin lightening brand Fair & Lovely linked lighter skin with success,... View Details
- November 2022
- Teaching Note
Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms
By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
5,000 Bikram Yoga studios worldwide. Deshpandé notes that in a world where the majority of yoga teachers were just scraping by Bikram succeeded through strategic use of branding and legal protections. Bikram also gained an edge by starting early in the United States... View Details
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Demonstration Policy | About
Course Activities policy. Some forms of capture are not permitted without prior permission, particularly if the content will be broadcast, disseminated publicly, or used for commercial purposes of any kind. All media on campus must be... View Details
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Elizabeth Heard, November 6, 1841. EH. Jacques M. Downs, The Golden Ghetto: The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy , 1784–1844. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1997, p. 219. John Heard... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
Cash. The most obvious commercial C of the 7 Cs is Cash. Cash is king at a time of crisis, and everything needs to be done to look both short term and long term at the financial health of the organization. After all, your employees,... View Details
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Banking System - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data Banking Sector Data Download Data Set in Excel Banking Sector Size The total assets of the banking sector, as a fraction of GDP, increased steadily between 1990 and 2008, before plateauing in recent years. Source: Flow of Funds The number of View Details
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The Panama Canal
The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
Commercializing Climate Tech; The Future of Food. When asked about the experience the co-chairs hoped to cultivate during the Symposium, Angela Son explained: “I hope that our attendees not only learned something new about their field of... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld
across the country. On January 15th, 2024 we had the opportunity to visit EcoWorld, a 7.5 million square feet commercial development in Bangalore as part of the 2024 immersive field course on India’s path to decarbonization (see Figure... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 KDKA, first radio station First talking movie, Influence: Medium 30 1930 s 19 Advances in aviation Nylon Fiberglass Instant photography Air-conditioning begins to realize View Details
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
experiment with 2,060 workers at a large, multibillion dollar commercial bank with thousands of employees. The researchers examined a variety of information, including the number of emails sent and received over time and time-stamp data,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Sep 2006
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Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
communication, transportation, and travel, creating a new commercial reality. He argued that the future belonged not to the multinational corporation but to the global corporation that did not cater to local differences. Known for his... View Details
- 5 Sep 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States
By: Ai Hisano
This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details
Hisano, Ai. "The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States." Paper presented at the CHORD Conference, Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD), Leeds, UK, September 5, 2013.