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01 Jun 1999
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Allison Hughes

influences playing on strong natural aptitudes, particularly in mathematics, it's not surprising that Hughes was a high-school standout in Polson, Montana. Among her many honors: being named to USA Today's "Top Twenty All-Academic USA Team." She also twice won the... View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

speech files, Polaroid Corporation Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. 2. Edwin H. Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1978, 5. 3. Victor K. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

methodology, recruiting and managing the team and overseeing more than 400 project across many industries. Phil has given more than 150 keynote speeches at events like the Harvard Business School Distinguished Speaker Series, National... View Details

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By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

19 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

theory, Zhu and Greenstein took a database of terms developed by University of Chicago economists Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro to examine newspaper bias. Gentzkow and Shapiro studied speeches in the 2005 Congressional Record to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing

11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

New research sheds light on implications of using politically correct and incorrect speech and identifies five techniques to increase persuasiveness and diffuse conflict. Insights from two recent studies in an emerging field—the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Digital Archival Resources Archival Collections Bibliography SITE CREDITS 4. Edwin H. Land, "Annual Christmas Message to Employees of Polaroid Corporation," University Theatre, Cambridge, MA, December 23, 1942, 6, Edwin H. Land speech... View Details

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

determination and stamina--five speeches a day--and the size of his crowds impressed ordinary voters watching on television much more than Clinton's barrage of paid ads. The pundits questioned whether enthusiasm would convert into votes.... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

30 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

learning algorithm, natural-language-processing software to analyze the speed dating conversations. For the third study, armed with their algorithm, they examined data from a 2013 Stanford speed dating study called Detecting friendly, flirtatious, awkward and assertive... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

and slavery, which is quite unusual for someone at this stage. And my father only had a third grade education and what passed for third grade education for an African American child in South Carolina, between 1906 to 1909. But he was self-taught. He had immaculate... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

22 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

in which you invest. An organization's norms and values aren't formed through speeches but through actions and team learning. Strong cultures have teeth. They are much more than slogans and empty promises. Some organizations choose to... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

domains. Studies have found that viewing photos of famous female leaders or reading about women in their intended career field empowered women to: Give longer, better speeches that are equal in length to those of male peers. Eliminate... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

Great Depression. Roy had to drop out of school when he ran out of money during his junior year, but Tibby graduated with a degree in speech and English. They were married in 1938, and Tibby went to work for her father at the First... View Details

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

speech on this at the Walker & Dunlop Summer Conference in, I think, 2017, and Sheila and I were back together. And the fun part about the talk was, A, I got to tell it, and then, B, I had a really great punchline, because Sheila was in... View Details

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Working Groups Update | About

programs. As our work unfolds, we look forward to connecting with a number of section chairs, administrators, and student leaders, as well as other experts who can help broaden our perspective and provide input on our efforts. Free Speech... View Details

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

littleny Can YouTube’s Users Help the Company Deal With Its “Moral” Problem?* This month’s mini-case described the dilemma faced by Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube: how far to promote “sustainability,” viewership, and (to some) free speech... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

Portrait Project

Aman Kumar

altogether. I don't have the answers. I cannot tell you why I survived and millions of other babies didn't, why speech therapy helped me more than it did others, why the eye surgeries held and left so many others blind. The joy and wonder... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

In a much admired and debated speech given at the World Economic Forum in Davos last January, Bill Gates said that many of the world's biggest problems cannot be fixed by philanthropy, but instead require free-market... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

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