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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
- News
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
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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Tough Tech Ventures Course Number 1727 Associate Professor Joshua Lev Krieger Senior Lecturer Jim Matheson Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Paper Course Overview Tough tech ventures face both high levels of technology and View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Piloting new career horizons for women in aviation
Jeanette Eaton (PMD 72, 1997) is helping a new generation of women take flight. As an executive for Global Business, Commercial Systems, and Services at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Connecticut, she advocates for youth, especially... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Harvard Center Shanghai Names New Executive Director
leaders in their respective fields,” said Williams, who has spent most of his career in East Asia, most recently as a private consultant in China. In addition, he has served as the first foreign president of a Chinese commercial bank at... View Details
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
including biographical material, correspondence, writings, memorabilia. Bourke-White's photographs and negatives are held in a separate collection, also located in SCRC. Victor Keppler Papers Papers of the American commercial photographer... View Details
- March 1990 (Revised June 1991)
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IBM Corp.: ""Make It Your Business"" (A)
By: Robert L. Simons
In 1987, IBM changed its strategy in an attempt to become a market-driven company rather than a product-driven company. The case begins with a description of the new strategy and the reasons for the change and then describes the top-down sales planning and quota system... View Details
Keywords: Commercialization; Competitive Advantage; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Strategic Planning; Motivation and Incentives; Sales; Volatility; System; Information Technology Industry
Simons, Robert L. IBM Corp.: ""Make It Your Business"" (A). Harvard Business School Case 190-137, March 1990. (Revised June 1991.)
- November 1990 (Revised September 1991)
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First Chicago Corp.: Corporate Strategy
Lays out the business challenges facing First Chicago Corp. in 1986: the banking industry has been deregulated, many corporations are bypassing banks in their search for capital, and foreign competition has increased. Their traditional market--corporate banking--has... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Investment Banking; Corporate Strategy; Emerging Markets; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; United States
Friedman, Raymond A. "First Chicago Corp.: Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 491-056, November 1990. (Revised September 1991.)
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of change in commercial and... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
commercial EVs (up to $40,000 for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles) means they will achieve price parity with diesel trucks in 2023, five years sooner than previously forecasted. This is leading to big investments by EV battery... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Visual Collections
commodities—such as furniture, pianos, farm equipment, and sewing machines—that were commonly sold on credit. Less often, credit financing is mentioned in the advertising copy. The trade card was one of the most popular types of advertising during the dramatic View Details
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The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II
By: Daniel P. Gross
This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which over 11,000 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders that halted examination and prohibited inventors from disclosing their inventions or filing in foreign... View Details
Keywords: Invention Secrecy; Invention Disclosure; Trade Secrecy; Secrecy Orders; Cummulative Innovation; Wold War 2; Patents; National Security; History; Innovation and Invention; Outcome or Result; Intellectual Property; Policy; Commercialization; United States
Gross, Daniel P. "The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-090, May 2019. (Revised May 2019. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25545, May 2019)
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
capita income fueled commercial expansion and the emergence of the American consumer market, spurring on manufacturers and businesses to produce a fantastic variety of printed materials to advertise their products." In addition to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles
competitors in an industry often known for low wages and dismal environmental records. “We can be a catalyst of change,” says Yang, who is planning sustainability conferences and factory tours to share her company’s successful strategies. “We’re not going to just count... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Studying Japan from the Inside
quite a few companies face this issue. Another challenge is corporate governance. Historically, banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies were dominated by insiders. Last April, however, the View Details
- 28 Mar 2004
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HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
have a better understanding of how both commercial and non-profit organizations can contribute to improving not only society but also the economy as a whole. According to the SEI, the nonprofit sector comprises 7 percent of U.S. gross... View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
examines 3 recently developed ‘godlike technologies’ - artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and synthetic biology- that have passed commercial viability and are on-track to change the foundations of business and society by 2035. These... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination
productively at the intersection of business, science, and technology. His second-year elective, Commercializing Science and High Technology, is designed to attract business, science, engineering, law, and medical students from across the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We’ve already seen the economics shift for a number of startups in battery development, battery recycling, carbon capture, solar development, and clean hydrogen. Within EVs, the IRA’s tax credit of 30 percent on commercial EVs (up to... View Details