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10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

beings grappled with and overcame material hardship, organized their political and economic communities, won great wealth and lost it, conquered and were conquered. The present volume, assembling some of the brightest lights in the field,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

reinterpretation of ideas related to agency conflicts and a holistic view of corporate financial strategy that examines payout and capital structure decisions jointly. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2535675 Cases &... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

labor materially alters pre-retirement portfolio choice by significantly raising optimal equity holdings. Using this model, we also investigate the welfare costs of constraining portfolio allocations over the life-cycle to mimic popular... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

concrete producers, but this is a conservative industry that does not have a history of changing quickly. Making the economics even better can help to change that. IRA's combination of investment tax credits, grant programs, material... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

David Upton shared teaching duties with several counterparts from the faculty of Tsinghua University. Cases were available in English and Chinese. Classes taught by HBS faculty were translated simultaneously into Chinese, including View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services

11 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 11

content creation. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/06/how-to-profit-from-lean-advertising/ar/1 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-057 Inventory-Based Lending Industry Note Inventory-based lending is a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Sep 2017
Blog Post

How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield

signal – it can be a turn-off.” Corning, a long-established leader in material sciences and manufacturing, has stepped up its engagement with HBS interns, moving from an average of one summer intern a year to as many as six; in the summer... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising

, May 1885 28 By the 1880s, the popularity of the coveted, mass-produced trade cards and souvenir materials inspired a mania for collecting. “In a culture not yet saturated with manufactured images,” historian Pamela Laird asserts, “this... View Details

14 Oct 2020
News

Sewn with Love

2020, Hanazawa headed to her drafting table in her Los Angeles studio to study a medical gown given to her by a friend in the medical profession. She broke it down, rebuilt it, and put all the information—from material to construction—in... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

downtime created by the collapse of the Internet bubble gave rise to a host of new applications that we now collectively know as Web 2.0. Technologies and materials left unused due to the collapse of one industry can be creatively... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

stable mechanism is Pareto-optimal if and only if it prevents unravelling. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-068.pdf Cases & Course Materials Amazon Web Services Harvard Business School Case 609-048 Considers the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

material as an account of recent economic trends.17 The third book would have consolidated and elaborated the splendid passages on the long-term evolution of business. In that form, the book would have been a successful marriage of... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

involved launching two separate recruitment campaigns, each targeting half of 48 randomly selected rural districts across the country and distributing marketing material in the nation's health centers. In 24 districts, potential employees... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

complementors...using as an example Intel and the microprocessor-manufacturing game...as Nalebuff and Brandenburger explain: Along the vertical dimension of the Value Net are the company's customers and suppliers. Resources such as raw View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

a computer monitor, Associate Professor David M. Upton displayed materials from his course, Designing, Managing, and Improving Operations, available on its World Wide Web home page. Upton first presented an electronic case, featuring both... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

customize classes so that students received the lessons they needed without reviewing material they already knew? That is the idea behind School of One, an approach to learning piloted by New York City Department of Education, which... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

community service. In the other 24, the material emphasized career advancement. The campaigns drew two distinct groups of candidates. While the career advancement campaign attracted a group that had more qualifications and was more... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

needs at any particular moment." She also posed the problem of finding insider "CEO material willing to wait in the sidelines." Andrew Campbell commented that "you often have to reassess your succession plan when the... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

serving every man, woman, and child in America.” 42 Photographs captured symbols of the corporation’s industrial power—from expansive views of mining and transporting iron ore, limestone, and coal to detailed shots of employees operating massive machines that converted... View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Management. Doriot taught Industrial Management and Manufacturing classes that focused on manufacturing methods and organization, material and labor, and conduct and control of production. It was at this time that Doriot met Edna Allen, a... View Details

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