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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

olvwork490187 Margaret Bourke-White. George Washington Bridge, ca. 1934. olvwork490064 As photography became more firmly established as the medium of choice for print advertising, the boundaries between fine art and commercial photography... View Details

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How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture

By: Gary P. Pisano and David J. Teece

Capturing value from innovation requires innovators to figure out how to blunt inroads into the profit stream by imitators, customers, suppliers, and other providers of complementary products and services. In making strategic decisions around technology... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Structures; Standards; Commercialization; Value

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30 Mar 2018
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

come from low-income neighborhoods.” While his background is in commercial real estate and corporate finance, since 2012 Majors has served as a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group.... View Details

12 May 2016
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What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

claiming valuable new natural resources. It’s a modern set of economic motives that aren’t much different from those that set whalers sailing south more than a century ago. While Nohria sees promise in the commercialization of space, he... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Saving lives through new vaccine technology

visiting lecturer at his Commercializing Science class, with whom he eventually cofounded the company along with three other partners. In 2012, Vaxess won the HBS Business Plan competition and Harvard’s President’s Challenge, followed by... View Details

Bert S. Cross

Cross spent over 40 years with 3M and was known as a “builder of businesses.” He successfully commercialized several new product lines including Scotchlite and Thermo-Fax copying machines. During his tenure, 3M expanded its international... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

others in a positive way. Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature by Mark R. Tercek (MBA 1984) and Jonathan S. Adams (Basic Books) Nature Conservancy CEO Tercek and his coauthor argue that nature is a smart View Details

2014
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Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System]

By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio

This book is the Spanish edition of our award winning paper "These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18713, January 2013. The book examines the effects of foreign bank entry into Mexico. Foreign banks... View Details

Keywords: Banks And Banking; Mexico; Commercial Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; Competition; Financial Markets; Banking Industry; Mexico

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Taj Mahal and Trump Castle in Atlantic City. Known for his intimidating negotiating tactics, especially his ability to win lucrative tax abatement deals, Trump has made fortunes in residential and commercial real estate. View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
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Can China Lead?

Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China... View Details

15 Aug 2019
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Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

role as Product Manager Intern with responsibilities he describes as “a mix of technology development and business analysis. I work with a team focused on developing products aimed at lowering energy usage in commercial and residential... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

The economics of space and the rise of the commercial space industry By Matthew C. Weinzierl, et al. Understand the structure of space economics through cases on the U.S. space program and the rise of the View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Who Owns Yoga?

them from stealing I must go to the lawyers,” he said. By 2011, there were some 5,000 Bikram Yoga studios worldwide. Deshpandé notes that Bikram succeeded through the strategic use of branding and legal protections, and that he also started early in the United States... View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; yoga; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Leading in business and in public education

a movie theater company, Loews now has interests in several industries, including commercial property and casualty insurance, hotels, energy exploration, and natural gas and liquids storage and transportation. Tisch was charged with... View Details

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Jessica Mbaeliachi

to the Board of Directors, and key Enterprise Level strategic initiatives. She previously served as the company’s Head of Strategy and Operations for Intercontinental Markets, driving commercial strategy, brand planning and business... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Health Care

29 Aug 2024
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Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

A new space race—one fueled more by commercial conquest than intergalactic domination—is charting solutions to pressing problems in national security, climate change, and communication. With costs poised to drop and innovation on the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

"customer focused." Try to create value out of novelty. Succumbing too much to commercial pressures such as taking on easy jobs may lose your distinctiveness. Where Do Creative Ideas Come From? How Kayak Users Built a New... View Details

February 2018 (Revised April 2018)
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Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise

By: Michael Chu, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai and Yuanzhuo Wang

This case tells the story of how Wang Minghui, Chairman of Yunnan Baiyao Group since 1999, transformed a single-product traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) state-owned enterprise (SOE) into a major diversified consumer health player in China's highly competitive... View Details

Keywords: State-owned Enterprise (SOE); Traditional Chinese Medicine; Yunnan; Yunnan Baiyao; Consumer Health; Enterprise Transformation; Transformation; Health; Business History; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; China

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March 2011 (Revised June 2013)
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Next Street, LLC

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Next Street Financial, LLC was a modern merchant bank that provided high quality advisory services and capital to small- and mid-sized inner city businesses. Next Street was a for-profit business that aimed to increase the growth, profitability and success of its... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Capital; Commercial Banking; Investment Funds; Urban Development; Financial Services Industry

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