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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

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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

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

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

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

family, to live, to work, and to play. And so I tell everyone, I view the role of mayor as “I am the chief ambassador. I am the chief brand officer of my city.” The first thing I did when I gave my very first speech to the Chamber of... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

learned by Chinese companies going global, and leading through uncertainty. In addition, Professor Benjamin Esty, faculty chair of the Asia-Pacific Research Center, provided a School update to regional alumni that was followed by keynote View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 1998
News

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

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

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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

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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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

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

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

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

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Porter Prize Japan - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

of ICS' evening programs taught in Japanese and in October at the opening of its day-time programs taught entirely in English. Over the years, Michael Porter has donated his time for these speeches and for many other joint efforts. The... 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

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

been hijacked in countless political speeches from an embodiment of America's core values into a crass appeal to materialism and easy gratification. Right-wing politicians touting the American Dream consistently advocate lower taxes. The... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

30 Jun 2022
News

Scaling Hope

trained as a parent peer coach for families, is using his years of business experience to build the tools he wished had been available when his family was confronting addiction and is sharing his own experience of the recovery path. He recalls an early 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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