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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy, & Society . Research Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace , Harvard Business Review, 2022. With Leena Nair, Nick Dalton, and Patrick Hull. Digital Commerce and... View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

that law and governments struggle to keep up with. As business becomes more involved in the way society operates, it creates responsibilities that weren’t present before.” HOME REGION Ankara, Turkey UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Koc University... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

that could enable finance to fulfill its potential in both stabilizing the atmosphere and making society more resilient. Measuring and Reducing Corporate Carbon Emissions Faculty Presenters: Robert S. Kaplan , Senior Fellow and Marvin... View Details

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Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Partnership in Relationship Building and Collaborative Marketing by a Global Financial Institution and a Major Art Museum

By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser

Purpose: This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership and relationship marketing perspective. It studies a case of how a partnership between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Partners and Partnerships; Marketing Strategy; Culture; Banks and Banking

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19 Apr 2004
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Birth of the American Salesman

his hometown, Zenith. He represented the aggressive, expansionist, and highly "American" way of doing business of the 1920s. Willy Loman was also a representative figure. But this time, the salesman seemed to capture the entire tragedy of View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

Influence: Medium 30 1930 s 19 Advances in aviation Nylon Fiberglass Instant photography Air-conditioning begins to realize commercial potential Influence: High 40 1940 s 19 Planes and ships built in less than a day for the war effort... View Details

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

filters that would reduce glare. The following year, Land-Wheelwright Laboratories entered a contract with the American Optical Company, a major manufacturer, to produce sunglasses, marketed as Polaroid Day Glasses—another critical milestone towards View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

: Elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024. Amy C. Edmondson : Winner of the 2024 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) Award in the Management and Leadership category for Right Kind of... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

research here , and Jeffrey’s other research here . More Info Loan types and the bank lending channel By: Victoria Ivashina , Luc Laeven & Enrique Moral-Benito MAR 2022 There are four main types of commercial credit: asset-based loans,... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Smith. Elisabeth Kempf : Awarded the 2017 J.C. Ruigrok Prize for the best economics dissertation in the Netherlands from the Royal Dutch Society for the Sciences for “Essays in Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation” (Tilburg... View Details

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Coffee Movement, Pre-War Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, Coffee (New York: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, 1947), pp. 16-17, map. Coffee Production and Consumption J. G. Bartholomew, ed., Atlas of the World's Commerce (London: George Newnes, 1907), p.... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned storefronts belie its history as... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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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 View Details

30 Jun 2023
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Finding Pride

was part of the radical gay liberation movement. He had nothing to do with it, except to coordinate with me to publish it. He took a lot of heat for me back then. Thanks, David! In my second year, when I was looking for a job as a View Details

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MBA Program - Alumni

the School is preparing future leaders for the demands of an ever-changing world. HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund HBS’s first student-run Impact Investing Fund focuses on local BIPOC-led and -owned small businesses that have limited access to traditional View Details

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and Building Sustainable Cities.... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

09 Jun 2024
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The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

class and how will you apply it in the future?The value driver framework, especially Professor Esty’s belief that value creation can create win-win-wins in society without sacrificing shareholder value. In my onboarding discussions with... View Details

16 May 2005
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Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

years at HBS on nonprofit growth and multisite nonprofits. Though networks are not new in practice, and in fact are quite common in both the nonprofit and commercial sectors, she said, the question of how to go about creating these... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

Company, a commercial real estate firm where he worked on transformative urban real estate projects. One of those ventures was a 350-unit, mixed-income apartment development, near Atlanta’s MARTA train station, that included 70 units of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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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

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