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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
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
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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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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
- 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
Friedman, Walter A. and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.
- 2013
- Book
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
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
Friedman, Walter A. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. Princeton University Press, 2013.
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
listed at right in their new positions. Kenneth S. Corts Associate Professor of Business Administration Paul A. Gompers Professor of Business Administration John T. Gourville Associate Professor of Business Administration Robert E. Kennedy Associate Professor of... View Details
- January 2008 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Forecasting the Great Depression
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
Friedman, Walter A. "Forecasting the Great Depression." Harvard Business School Case 708-046, January 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
- February 2003 (Revised September 2004)
- Teaching Note
Mobile Communications Tokyo, Inc. (TN)
By: Walter Kuemmerle and David Lane
Teaching Note for (9-899-077). View Details
- 2001
- Working Paper
Asset Accumulation, Interdependence and Technological Change: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery
By: Stefan Thomke and Walter Kuemmerle
- July 2002
- Article
Asset Accumulation, Interdependence and Technological Change: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery
By: Stefan Thomke and Walter Kuemmerle
Thomke, Stefan, and Walter Kuemmerle. "Asset Accumulation, Interdependence and Technological Change: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery." Strategic Management Journal 23, no. 7 (July 2002): 619–635.
- 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
- June 1999 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Sirona
By: Walter Kuemmerle and Chad S Ellis
Sirona, the dental systems business of Siemans AG is being sold through an auction. In September 1997, buyout firm Schroder Ventures has to decide whether to make a binding offer for the business. Schroder has done extensive due diligence with support from a team of... View Details
- 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
Lal, Rajiv, Walter J. Salmon, and James Weber. "L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 504-080, March 2004.
- Fast Answer
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
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Management Update Launched
Managers trying to make sense out of a continuously changing business environment should check out the latest from Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP). Management Update, a monthly newsletter launched in June 1996 and edited by new... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Web
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
- 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
- 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