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  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow a set of start dates for considering and hiring applicants during the fall of the third... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

The Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization

By: Walter A. Friedman
Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early twentieth century. He built the largest private economic forecasting agency in the period and published a great range of economic statistics in his weekly newsletters. As... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economics; Business History; Newsletters; Personal Development and Career; United States
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

charismatic style of presentation along with Polaroid's inviting advertising literature and product packaging bolstered sales. The company's colorful, easy-to-read promotional kits for its glare-free desk lamps, crafted by industrial... View Details
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Harvard Business School

Broadcast executive and businessman W. Don Cornwell was hired by Goldman Sachs in 1971 and later promoted to chief operating officer of the investment banking division's corporate finance department. In 1988, Cornwell left the securities... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Ideas: Books

Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2014
  • Book

Business History

By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones
This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A wide-ranging editorial introduction describes the... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History
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  • 2013
  • Book

Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters

By: Walter A. Friedman
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting And Prediction; Economic History; Economics; History; Risk and Uncertainty; United States
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  • January 2008 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Forecasting the Great Depression

By: Walter A. Friedman
What is proper role of professional economic forecasting in financial decision making? The case presents excerpts from three leading economic forecasters on the eve of, and just after, the stock market crash of October 1929. The first set of excerpts is from Roger... View Details
Keywords: History; Mathematical Methods; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis
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  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

Psychological Links to Micro and Macro Organizational Behaviour Authors:M. A. Neale, A. E. Tenbrunsel, T. Galvin, and M. H. Bazerman Publication:In The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies, 2nd ed. Edited by Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2004
  • Case

L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth

By: Rajiv Lal, Walter J. Salmon and James Weber
In mid-2003, CEO Chris McCormick felt L.L. Bean was in a good position to begin to grow again. For nearly 90 years, the company sold clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts through its catalogs and a single retail store in Freeport, Maine. In the three decades prior... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Restructuring; Growth and Development Strategy; Cost Management; Sales; Performance Improvement; Diversification; Distribution Channels; Resignation and Termination; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Faculty Research Symposium

administrators together for lively presentations by colleagues and a panel discussion on “The Market for Management Ideas,” moderated by Walter View Details
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Unions: statistics, reports, etc.

statistics on union membership, collective bargaining, and strikes and lockouts. Walter P. Reuther Library (Wayne State University): Historical union data for most of the major groups.  Labor Unions and Labor Organizations:... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credits

Credits Curator Caitlin E. Anderson Faculty Advisors Walter A. Friedman, Research Fellow and Co-Editor, Business History Review , Harvard Business School, J. Gunnar Trumbull, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

High Stakes on the High Seas

book, The Proving Ground. Knecht made ten trips to Australia to research what it was like on board three of the boats, including Sayonara, skippered by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, one of the wealthiest men in the world. Knecht has written a... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
  • 31 Oct 2018
  • News

Why I’m Donating One Billion Dollars to Save the Planet

Walter Diaz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In an effort to help accelerate land and ocean conservation across the globe, Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) announced in a New York Times opinion piece that he is giving $1 billion over the next... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2011
  • News

Still Shining through Florida's Clouds

digging for a problem’s root causes in order to properly identify it, followed by a willingness to consider unconventional alternatives to achieving one’s objectives. “Professor Walter Salmon got me... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
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Site Credits - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Railroads & the Transformation of Capitalism Credits: Curator: Melissa Banta HBS Faculty Advisors: Walter A. Friedman, Research Fellow... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

to help managers navigate the myriad decisions they must make in order to create value from their foreign operations and outperform competitors in an increasingly integrated world. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

New Releases

than as an economic function or a set of personal characteristics," write the editors in the introduction. The Entrepreneurial Venture will be useful to both practicing and would-be entrepreneurs. When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups View Details
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John Safer Search 1983 | About

monumental public works and commissions. In 1979, he made a bronze sculpture for Harvard Law School titled Judgment , which led to the commission for HBS. Search was designed in 1983, cast in bronze by the Tallix foundry in New York, and... View Details