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Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Dark Poem Painting (What I Call You When I Think About You and You Are Not There) , 2005 Oil on stitched canvas 48 x 44 in. Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2006.10 Tuli Mekondjo (Namibian, born 1982) Otwa umbata oudjuu... View Details

13 Nov 2013
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Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

to drive the car are not OK," Avery explains. "They tried to paint Cayenne drivers as not just feminine, but unlike traditional Porsche owners in other ways. First of all, the drivers were women, and that was bad enough. But to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

15 Nov 2018
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Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

10 Oct 2023
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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Urban Development has announced grants totaling $759.7 million for sustainable and affordable housing in DACs, as well as $365 million to address lead paint in homes. All in all, the Justice40 programs largely aim to better the quality of... View Details

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

on the home front. Documenting the Wartime Effort: Slider Hanging bombs on paint conveyor line, Christy Park Works, McKeesport, Pennsylvania. U.S. Steel Annual Report, 1940. Corporate Reports Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business... View Details

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By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

then how we started the company. DM: And Peter, these are all core concepts and core strategies. At a practical level, what did this company look like in the garage? PP: Okay, I'm gonna paint you the picture: San Francisco, grungy garage,... View Details

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

Riley’s crew, he said, “had this incredible energy and charisma and was doing things that were really inspirational. It started by changing the whole course of LA graffiti, but ultimately, led to really changing the way graffiti is View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

offer popcorn as well as bowls of spicy beef over French fries. During timeouts, the nearly 10,000 fans—one of them painted head to toe in green, yellow, and red, and another wearing an impossibly detailed lion’s head— mug for stadium... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

business and sort of satisfy my dad. Hanna: Can you paint us a picture of what your first ten years on the job were like? What went well and what didn't go so well? Rosenberg: While in school I basically had a hunch that young businesses,... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

25 Mar 2015
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Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

"Shake Me," the pink triangle reads, hovering in the middle of the Magic Tate Ball—a smartphone app mimicking the popular Magic 8 Ball novelty. When shaken, the virtual prognosticator reads "Choosing Your Artwork" for a dramatic moment before... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans. “We need to stop trying to paint this picture of the perfect employee who never needs help.” Whillans, who studies how people navigate trade-offs between time and money, recently co-wrote a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, paints a more optimistic picture, provided business leaders embrace our generational diversity findings. Our study confirms others that quantify the economic benefits of diverse... View Details

18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

on getting more aggressive and moving faster. Morrell: Yeah, as a leader in this organization, how do you think about change and pushing change? Cunningham: Certainly, you want to paint the vision, and hopefully it's a pretty compelling... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Oct 2000
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Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience

Among the 31 works in "Second Show," a recent exhibit of Wib Walling's paintings, one in particular seems to reflect the disparate paths that have brought the artist to this juncture in his life. Titled Self-Portrait, the work is a mixed-media composition of seven... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Portrait Project

Kelley Thorne

creator. As I dotted fluffy clouds of pink and blue, I forgot about my troubles with mean girls at school. My spirit connected to God, and my shallow breaths subsided. Painting gave me peace. Painting also... View Details

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Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture 2015 | About

Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture , 2015 Tony Tasset (American, born 1960), Arrow Sculpture , 2015, car paint on aluminum. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery. . Conceptual artist Tony Tasset’s new series of View Details

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Auto worker creates stripe guns - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Production The Worker The Audience Chapter Introduction Chapter Images Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 next Auto worker creates stripe guns ca. 1936 De Soto Photographer unknown Frank Ryan, veteran worker in the De Soto body plant, has created all of the stripe guns used... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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HBS Community Reaches Out

sites, participants took part in myriad projects that included painting at Allston's Gardner Elementary School and landscaping at Cambridge's Center for Sustainable Building. Volunteer Catriona Fallon (HBS '01) worked at Boston Senior... View Details

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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

photographs his subject in front of a painted backdrop he constructs that portrays the sitter’s aspirations. Apagya explains: “I have always tried to find out what my clients like best, what they dream of, what they desire, their... View Details

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