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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Development Records, Box III.329, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. 56. George Ehrenfried, "Working with Land," in Optics and Photonics News 5, no. 10 (October 1994): 56. 57. Ibid. 58. Land quoted... View Details
- October 2007
- Article
The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital
By: Michael D. Kimbrough
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Exploring the World of Retail as an Intern at Walmart
Fortunately for my stress level, I came into HBS with two parts of my career vision crystallized already: a role in the retail & consumer products realm, and something that... View Details
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Good cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management
Joint work with Alexander Gümbel, Saïd Business School and Lincoln College Oxford
In this paper we examine how the quantity of information generated about firm... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
former managing director of State Street Research to become COO at Idea Village, also located in New Orleans, where he worked with more than 300 startups until 2013. “I’m an entrepreneur at my core,”... View Details
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
to 24 percent in 2021 from 39 percent in 1987, while contingent appointments rose from 47 percent to 68 percent during the same period. Myers co-authored the study with Karim Lakhani, the Dorothy &... View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
Americans may be more receptive to underdog narratives because of the unique role of underdogs in the history of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
long-term effort for us," he said. "Starting this month, my own speech will simply be in English." All workers were required to take a two-hour 200-question test to assess their reading and listening comprehension View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First
By: Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas
In the debate over whether microfinance works, few microfinance institutions articulate what, exactly, their ultimate goals are and how, exactly, they will achieve them. The authors cut through the confusion by mapping a clear theory of change for microfinance. If the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Social Entrepreneurship; Microfinance; Goals and Objectives; Success; Social Enterprise; Poverty
Datar, Srikant M., Marc J. Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas. "In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First." Stanford Social Innovation Review 6, no. 1 (Winter 2008).
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
market interactions with the U.S both at the company level and at the country level affect corporate disclosure practices of foreign companies. We studied interactions with the U.S. in product, labor, and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
of our current subprime mortgage collapse, economists and historians interested in the role of real estate markets View Details
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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the 1920s Research Links Site Credits 1929: The Great Crash Unique historical materials in Harvard University collections throw light on the role of the regional exchanges... View Details
- 07 Jan 2020
- News
Models of Success
lessons she learned on the basketball court—drive, endurance, teamwork—served her well in the business world, too. But not all of her college teammates and other friends found... View Details
- March 2006
- Module Note
Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 4: Sensing Opportunity
Describes the fourth module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Projects; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Perspective; Value Creation; Networks; Alignment
MacCormack, Alan D. "Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 4: Sensing Opportunity." Harvard Business School Module Note 606-104, March 2006.
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
(Harvard Business School Press) Information Markets: What Businesses Can Learn from Financial Innovation, by William J. Wilhelm, Jr., and Joseph D. Downing, is the finance professional’s must-have guide to... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
you do. You may also need to anticipate and shape linkages between value-net games and public interest games. But first we need to digress a bit to define these types of games and to explore the roles that... View Details
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In The Community | About
than 7,200 hours in Pro Bono consulting through the HBS Association of Boston Community Action Partners (CAP) and CAP Brainstorms 25 MBA students in the Consulting for Impact... View Details
- 08 Dec 2022
- HBS Case
The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?
the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who explores those challenges in a case study co-written with... View Details