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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Catherine Kuehn Price (MBA 1986) and Malcolm Price (MBA 1987)

Malcolm, who was a practicing attorney in Australia when he decided to shift his focus to business. Now heading the Financial Sponsors Group at Credit Suisse in New York City, he views the case method as “an incredibly powerful way of... View Details

08 Aug 2005
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A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

provides customers with a menu of options representing variations from the standard order, such as a customized product or service, special packaging, expedited delivery, or extended credit terms. Each menu item has a price that at least... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

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

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “It is just about the greatest thrill there is in the world, that feeling of living in a little universe in which all you... View Details

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Introduction The Exhibition Photography and Print Advertising Pictorial Publicity Challenge of Color Breaking Down Barriers Dream Realities Route of the Exhibition Research Links Credits Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard... View Details

07 Jan 2019
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The Better Way to Forecast the Future

credits the work of the National Hurricane Center, Nate Silver, and others for helping educate the public on how to interpret probability forecasts, but more work is needed to improve visualizations. “Even if you say there’s a 10 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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HBS - Key Metrics

electricity from the grid, electricity from our solar panels (solar renewable energy credits [SRECs], which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet its state renewable energy requirements), natural gas... View Details

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

summer, and in the fall she will be working in Boston as a strategy consultant for IBM Strategy and Change. “I think I will always be involved in economic development in some way,” she remarks, crediting her mother as a major source of... View Details

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

02 Nov 2022
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Strong Finish

investment from Sontag’s firm, Prelude Growth Partners, Sol de Janeiro’s sales more than doubled. Yang credits Sontag’s investment—and well-timed advice to invest in talent acquisition and inventory, not office space—for that success,... View Details

23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Garantia S.A. is sold to Credit Suisse First Boston 1999 Acquires Ibmec with other investors 2004 Through a donation, Ibmec São Paulo becomes a nonprofit institution 2009 Ibmec renamed Insper 2010 Insper accredited by AACSB 2015 Steps... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits From the earliest days of trade between the United States and China, the major obstacle to this commerce had been the lack of American commodities that could be sold in China. — Thomas Layton, The Voyage... View Details

April 2019 (Revised December 2021)
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Sears: The Demise of an American Icon

By: Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott

In 2019, ESL Investments’ $5.2 billion offer to purchase Sears Holdings out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was accepted, despite opposition from the company's unsecured creditors and other parties. ESL, which was led by Eddie Lampert, had acquired a stake in Sears following... View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy; Reorganization; Bonds; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Transformation; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Retail Industry; United States

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HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

button daily in order to get an extra nine minutes of shut-eye in the morning. Many of them hit "snooze" at least three times before getting out of bed.) In the "Clocky" case, which Ofek has taught for four years, the authors View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Kasturi Rangan : Winner of the 2014 Case Centre Award in the Economics, Politics and Business Environment Category for his case with Sunru Yong, "Alpen Bank: Launching the Credit Card in Romania" (HBS Case 104-559). 2013 Julian De Freitas... View Details

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

China Trade Bibliography Manuscript Collections Related Collections Site Credits “Business is too important and interesting not to be chronicled somehow,” Albert Heard wrote. 1 He was referring to his family’s firm, Augustine Heard & Co.,... View Details

25 Jan 2010
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A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

those odds, but it reduces them. Macroeconomists deserve a lot of credit for that. That said, excessively low interest rates during the boom years may well have helped to cause the crisis. So monetary policy, while much better than in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “Within the hour, the camera, the film, and the physical chemistry became so clear to me.” Edwin Land, "On Some Conditions... View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

under-provision of credit due to excessive regulation. Figure 6 presents the results. Almost 60% of respondents identified political risk as posing a great threat to the financial system, and almost 50% stated that the Federal Reserve's... View Details

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

a reality, Nneka focused on building relationships and has found the strength of the HBS network to be particularly powerful. “The HBS alumni network is so large you can always find folks that you connect with, personally and professionally, who you can help or can... View Details

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

be doing. It is the same with digital technology. A natural reaction of most companies is to protect the status quo and find ways to avoid or discredit the new technology. Apple Pay, digital currency, decentralized finance, cryptocurrency and many such innovations were... View Details

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