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- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
bookstore activity and industry conferences; and an analysis of 915 newspaper and trade publication articles that mentioned independent bookselling in some fashion. He even attended a training course on how to open an independent... View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
theory, Zhu and Greenstein took a database of terms developed by University of Chicago economists Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro to examine newspaper bias. Gentzkow and Shapiro studied speeches in the 2005 Congressional Record to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
The decline of the community newspaper in the United States has been steep and severe. A quarter of American papers have folded in the last 15 years, and industry-wide consolidation has eviscerated the newsrooms of those that are left,... View Details
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
manufacturer. 68 Booth provided dealers with the "Polaroid Promotion Plan" that detailed the timing, logistics, and value of newspaper ads, training sessions, and demonstrations of the camera in order, Booth asserted, "to stage a dramatic... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
newspaper and bought his first stock, in Johnson & Johnson. As a teenager, he delivered the weekday afternoon and Sunday Baltimore Sun and ran a snow removal/lawn mowing business. In high school, he took an interest in coin and stamp... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
newspaper reporter since 1863,” the year he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank of New York (now Citibank) at age 23. Baker believed in action, not words. And his actions spoke volumes. He began... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
with the opening of the Spangler Center in 2001. A 1984 article in the HBS Harbus newspaper describes Baker 20 at its height: “It lies at the nerve center of its patrons’ daily activities. Its employees have set records for longevity and... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents View Details
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
railroads represented a highest percentage of listed stocks and bonds issued on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock market grew from a few shares in the 1830s to hundreds of thousands in 1850 to millions by the mid-1860s. Investors could follow railroad companies in... View Details
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
and Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz, associate professor and graduate research assistant, respectively, at UMass Boston. Measuring fear during the Trump era The paper looks closely at two different sets of data. The first is the Migration Fear Index, which counts the... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- Portrait Project
Tory Voight
It’s 3 am; I awake in a sea of newspapers stacked over me in the beat-up van we sometimes slept in; my Goodwill clothes still on from the day before. It’s time to help my single mother deliver them before her house cleaning jobs and... View Details
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
requires that an employer place 2 Sunday print newspaper advertisements for the offered position and also document at least 3 of the following additional recruitment efforts:. Posting the position on the employer's web site Participation... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
newspapers at enormous savings to national studios and local exhibitors. And skiers who have enjoyed winters at Jiminy Peak in western Massachusetts and Bromley Mountain in Vermont are schussing in resorts the company owns, while the food... View Details
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Ludcke House | About
his retirement from Putnam in 1965, Ludcke continued his influence in the industry as the widely read author of “The Human Side of Investing,” a syndicated financial column that ran in 17 newspapers across the country. In addition, he and... View Details
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Relations and Photography Labor Practices Documenting the Wartime Effort: Footnotes 26 Douglas A. Fisher, Steel in the War (New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1946), 161. 27 Part of these efforts included outreach to newspapers... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
days would call African Americans 'Aunt' or 'Uncle' or by their first name, Ben or Sarah or whatever. They would never address them by their surname." Although Breedlove's marriage to a newspaper advertising salesman named Charles... View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the African-American Student Union
Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
are told, for example, that standard telephone service is migrating toward becoming a free service, becoming a foundation instead for the sale of other information services. At least one New York daily newspaper has begun giving away its... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
After one minute, he peeled away an 8-by-10-inch print from the negative. A sequence of photographs captured the tense moments as Land posed for his portrait, followed by his visible relief when the first public demonstration of instant photography proved successful.... View Details