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- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
the arguments on both sides and render a decision. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708032 Fiyta—The Case of a Chinese Watch Company Harvard Business School Case 308-025 Fiyta had long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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What Google, Lego, and Other Brands Know About the Promise and Peril of AI | Working Knowledge
Ikea Kreativ, the design app, has used AI to scan customers’ rooms and show virtual renderings of the company’s furniture in their homes. This technology aimed to tackle one of retail’s biggest challenges: helping shoppers see how... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
sovereign-debt models, asset-valuation effects occasioned by currency fluctuations act to absorb global shocks and render consumption smoother. Countries do not accumulate reserves to be depleted in “bad” times. Instead, issuing domestic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
million toward Vectograph production and established the Polaroid War School where more than fifteen hundred military personnel learned how to make Vectographs. Early applications of the process at Guadalcanal rendered details of... View Details
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1.7 Grading | MBA
APC within three months of the last day of classes of the term during which the "No Credit" determination was made. The APC will render a final decision after reviewing the instructor's initial determination and after obtaining any... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
plants. If fuel for backup diesel generators were to run out, such as might happen if a prolonged power outage rendered fuel resupply impossible, the water in the spent fuel pools would boil off and cause the fuel rods to catch fire.... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
New York members, based on research by business executive Katherine Gehl and HBS Professor Michael Porter, detailing how partisan polarization has rendered government ineffective. That research resulted in a recently-released book, The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own currency. As opposed to traditional sovereign-debt models, asset-valuation effects occasioned by currency fluctuations act to absorb global shocks and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
whether, if business was a shaper of global capitalism, it was a force for good, or otherwise. I show that the heterogeneity of business enterprise renders this question challenging to answer, and perhaps misleading even to ask. In the... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
pioneered the business of economic forecasting by publishing a weekly newsletter on economic conditions starting in 1922. The Harvard forecasting model, developed by the statistician and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library
Instead of washing away the unexposed, undeveloped silver halide in the negative as in traditional photographic processes, the hypo solution (a fixing agent rendering the film insensitive to ambient light) in the pod packet transferred... View Details
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
targeting behavior. For managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets to encourage more volunteer effort, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
identity, ancestry, and American history in his works. In Strive , Lovell used an image from his personal archive of family, vintage, and historical photographs as the source for his expressive drawing of a seated woman, which is rendered... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
render their brick-and-mortar formats unable to earn their cost of capital. A few retailers face the challenge of successfully capturing the opportunities ecommerce presents to increase the productivity of their existing brick-and-mortar... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
managerial paradox: executives must both preserve and change aspects of the business that once made them successful but could render the organization obsolete in the near future. This module will examine several mature businesses that... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
states to collect export taxes to finance expenditures, rendered states with higher windfall tax revenues from the export of commodities to spend more on education per capita. Second, we prove that colonial institutions constrained the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
(January 26, 1958) THE QUEEN ELIZABETH, 1958: A staple of long-distance passenger travel as recently as fifty years ago, ocean liners were rendered obsolete by an exciting new development: air travel. But commercial shipping, in an... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
theory, happen to also tell her how unlikely her theory is. We investigate which combinations of errors, situations, and preferences tend to induce such incidental learning vs. factors that render erroneous beliefs stable. We show, for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015
currency), the asset valuation effects occasioned by currency depreciation (or appreciation) act to absorb global shocks and render consumption smoother. In this setting, countries do not accumulate high levels of reserves to be depleted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
marketplace render such efforts and their impacts transient at best? Do firms, in fact, frequently or at least sometimes behave this way, reducing their earnings by voluntarily engaging in environmental stewardship? And finally, should... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace