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- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In parallel, similar vulnerabilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
to HBS faculty member involved relating to former professors and mentors as colleagues. "I had a hard time calling them by their first names," she says. Now the William L. White Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 08 May 2015
- News
An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society
Do corporations do well by doing good? Or do firms that engage in environmental and social initiatives destroy shareholder wealth? George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, has studied how... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
know-how. It was here in Santa Clara County that the idea of venture capital was born when Arthur Rock (MBA '51) funded the invention of the silicon-based semiconductor that would give the Valley its name and its identity. It was in a garage in this neighborhood that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
edited by Dan Morrell; illustrations by Chris Gash use this navigation to explore the 19 Musts MUST READ The Border by Don Winslow “The Border is a gut-punch crime novel that... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
students would regard simply as home away from home. By all accounts, they succeeded. Angela Crispi (MBA ’90), associate dean for administration, recalls life on campus pre-Spangler. “There was so much energy in the classroom, but once... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Clay with 2004 Kentucky Derby champion Smarty Jones. To leave Lexington’s Bluegrass Airport, exit on Man O’ War Boulevard, named for one of history’s greatest Thoroughbred champions. It’s a little like taking the new Ted Williams Tunnel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Serena Ventures, a fund backed by Williams with an emphasis on startups that make diverse leadership and inclusivity a priority. Rapaport manages a portfolio of close to 60 early-stage investments focused on... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
men as less collectivistic than women, whereas those who completed the survey in Korean about Korean targets did not, demonstrating how cultural frames influence gender stereotype content. Study 4 established generalizability by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
commercial solar power systems William Rogers (MBA 1985) The Trust for Public Land Multiple US locations Land conservation nonprofit organization Roger Sant (MBA 1960) Sant Associates Co-founder and chairman Emeritus of AES Corporation;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
of smart people. Koehn: As these forces gather steam by the early 1960s, you're now attracting all kinds of interesting people, right? From the names we recognize like Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
and Frances X. Frei Publication:Chap. 8 in Operational Control in Asset Management: Processes and Costs. 1st ed., edited by Michael Pinedo, 154-168. Denmark: SimCorp StrategyLab, 2010 Abstract This chapter examines patterns in the cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
toward the war effort included the production of quinine. Natural quinine was derived from the bark of tropical tree in Java, but this source was cut off by the Japanese occupation. Polaroid sponsored the work of MIT graduate Dr. Robert... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Claudine Madras Gartenberg The idea of corporate purpose—a responsibility that goes beyond dollars and cents—can seem like little more than platitudes tucked into a mission statement. But new... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
“Thinking Ahead.” Harvard Business Review 37, no. 5 (September-October 1959). Full text available (Harvard users only) Laurence, William L. “Synthetic Quinine Produced, Ending Century Search.” New York Times , May 4, 1944. Full text... View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
(Series IV) Detailed correspondence, memoranda, and test photographs of Polaroid products by Ansel Adams in his role as consultant photographer from 1949 to 1984. Records Related to Edwin H. Land, 1927–1995 (Series V) Records associated... View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
While it wasn’t 100% perfect, there were a lot more offline conversations and learnings that took place over email than expected. We shared: Book recommendations (including The Innovators by Walter Isaacson, the Psychology of Intelligence... View Details
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Arthur Rock
experience of raising money to help these businesses grow. In a serendipitous encounter in 1957, Rock was approached by a group of seven scientists who were working at Shockley Laboratories in Palo Alto. The group had been working under... View Details