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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

since its creation has been remarkable, spurred by the demand for a high-quality online business education as a tool for career and personal advancement. Expanding its course portfolio with timely new offerings, HBS Online launched... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

Milestone” (ECM) which designates you as a “competent engineer.” Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? I felt that I could really throw myself into my three years of working and... View Details
  • November 1992
  • Case

Process Control at Polaroid (B)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Steven C. Wheelwright
The plant manager of a film production operation wants to create and implement a new approach to quality within the next 12 months. Issues of personnel (and their roles), production processes (and their control), and quality standards must be addressed. View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Job Design and Levels; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Quality; Mathematical Methods
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

several years Land and Wheelwright set up operations at various locations in the Boston area where they continued to expand their laboratory and manufacturing facilities to View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

users. The resource reservation with (configurable) grace periods should remedy this. And backfill scheduling should increase job throughput to levels we experience now. Those... View Details
  • 2024
  • White Paper

Skills-Based Hiring: The Long Road from Pronouncements to Practice

By: Matthew Sigelman, Joseph B. Fuller and Alex Martin
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Competency and Skills; Job Design and Levels
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Courses on our course platform are designed to work on an internet-connected desktop or notebook computer running either the Chrome or Firefox browser. Tablet computers and smartphones are not supported for... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Working the Street

Stripped to the waist in a clinic examining room, Mike, a burly white guy in his late 30s, is an illustrated man. His arms, chest, and neck are a tattooed maze of letters, numbers, and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

other industries, and how can we better design these sites?" says Luca. "It really comes down to what types of truths we want to find in each site and what we can do... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 10 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

at the Highest Levels By: Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell Abstract—The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

"Better to be quiet and thought a fool than to talk and be known as one." The social virtues of silence are reinforced by our survival instincts. Many organizations send the message—verbally or... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “The transfer from the field of polarized light to the field of photography was for us all a miraculous experience, as if we had entered a new country... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

create even within a very traditional, industrial business. We think the basic design of Predix was heading in the right direction, but the challenges in execution have been severe. Lagace: A central concern of The Business of Platforms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

  Publications April 2015 John Wiley & Sons The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality By: Eccles, Robert G., and Michael P. Krzus Abstract—The Integrated Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

design, but just look at their faces, beaming with pride and anticipation! Or online, head over to Facebook and Instagram, where you will see other instances of value creation. Look at the pictures View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • August 2023
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Salma Qarnain: Spaceships to Broadway

By: Leslie Perlow, Mel Martin and Hannah Weisman
Salma Qarnain, daughter of Pakistani Muslim immigrants, is an engineer trained at Stanford and MIT. She began her career building spacecrafts but 30 years later finds herself pursuing her calling, acting on Broadway. The case explores Qarnain’s career path, family... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Theater Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Talent and Talent Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Boston; California
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

$174 million in fiscal 2022 from $81 million in the prior year, reflecting the return of on-campus programming. The group produced 116 residential programs and 52 fully virtual programs for 10,575 participants. A combined 81 Topic-Focused... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2021
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

critical dimensions to organizations that want to work toward parity, not for cosmetic reasons, but to improve performance and value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 21 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

visiting a senior center in a Boston suburb to understand how comfortable seniors were with technology. In Buenos Aires, the team used design thinking to identify new marketing ideas and iterate based on the... View Details