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- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
separate from Amazon’s logistics operations and distribution centers in the state. Those early HBS visits, the article notes, were to drop in at a class taught by current Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Rayport, who wrote an early case study on Amazon. It was the View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
the concept that results are the most important factor in evaluating performance, if someone leaves early or comes in late in order to take care of a family matter, it's a non-issue—as long as that person is getting their work done and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
residents of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket such as the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Cape Wind has also confronted opposition from other political leaders as well as Native American groups, tourism and business... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
eschewed broadcasting messages to customers, instead focusing on connecting customers to each other, subsequently linking those customers' actions to increased profitability. To see this approach in action, consider eBay's Group Gifts app, launched in View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
by many credit ratings customers? A Century Of Competition The seeds of the bond ratings industry, Becker explains in the case, are found in the credit record collection firms (such as Dun & Bradstreet) of the late 19th century. The... View Details
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
in the commercial, late (the so-called mystery approach), or early and late. "The days when you could tell a consumer what to do are long gone," says Teixeira. "In the 1960s, the brand was onscreen all the time with a... View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
solutions to make care accessible and affordable. That's the message of HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen and colleagues in their new book, The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill, 2009). According to Christensen, the View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
change initiative more recently? What were the main customer service problems that were harming the company? And what did the "Mystery Shopper" component reveal? A: In the late 1990s, the company's comparable-store sales gains... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
students, along with several non-traditional students from the college’s adult education program. The inaugural program, launched in late September, matched 25 Morris Brown undergraduates with 25 Atlanta-area MBA alumni for monthly... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
headquarters, Navasky quips, “If it’s bad for the country, it’s good for The Nation.” And so it seems to be: In late 2005, with nearly 70 percent of citizens saying the country is going in the wrong direction, The Nation, his beloved... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
point out possible misconceptions about job creation by small businesses off the mark? Do they miss the point? What do you think? Original Article In the late 1990s, a group of faculty at the Harvard Business School proposed a new... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
water management technologies because they were aware of its weaknesses. "The basic problem from the farmers' point of view is that the water is in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Reinhardt. It's also one of the reasons why a sustained drought in the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
leadership." We asked him to discuss his findings and where his work is heading next. Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led to your interest in this area? William Kerr: In the late 1990s, I worked with a large Korean chaebol on a spin-off... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
It was in the late 1990s that the finger pointing began between Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier and its Brazilian competitor, Embraer. Each company alleged that the other was receiving government support that provided an unfair... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Research Resources | Baker Library
Photograph and Visual Materials Collection, circa 1930s–1990s (Series X) Documents associated with the research and development of photographic processes, film research, and other development efforts of the Polaroid Corporation from the View Details
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The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising
familiar sights on public walls and fences. While advertisers faced little regulation about the placement of broadsides, they needed to be wary of competitors who might tear down their postings or cover them up with their own advertisements. Advances in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Spangler Center Groundbreaking
With six inches of fresh snow underfoot, Dean Kim B. Clark and a hardy assembly of HBS students, faculty, and staff welcomed a group of distinguished guests to campus in late February to participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora Abstract—This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53941 forthcoming Harvard International Review Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe: The Forgotten Connection via a Remarkably Creative Negotiation By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—When Robert Mugabe was forced out of office... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne