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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
of particular products such as fabric swatches or small sheets of wallpaper. A corps of traveling salesmen, known as “drummers,” circulated trade catalogs to potential customers along with product samples. 14 Trade catalogs were also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
chances. "Moviegoing is embedded in the American social fabric," he says during a conversation at AMC's Theatre Support Center (the company's corporate headquarters) in Leawood, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. "We provide the... View Details
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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Corporation agreed to establish the first U.S. graduate program in business administration. Initial funds for the School came from a General Education Board gift and support from both Harvard alumni and businessmen. The University View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
of enablers, such as education, has the potential for leading directly to the development of ideas that actually expand the limits of even those kinds of growth that rely on physical resources with supposedly finite properties. If all... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Once they placed their order, customers had to wait ten years to receive it. Finally, Bajaj, whose grandfather had been known as the "fifth son" of Mahatma Gandhi and whose... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
If its purpose is to train “hands,” or technicians, or merely successful money-makers, in my judgment the course has no place in a graduate department of a university. On the other hand if its purpose is... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
also learned how difficult it was to get even great ideas off the laboratory bench and into the military 'marketplace.'" 28 Doriot sought out research taking place in universities such as the Harvard Fatigue... View Details
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The Dedication - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
explained that now the “Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration will do its utmost to guard against an illiterate ministry of business.” 17 The dedication speakers heralded the new campus as the physical embodiment of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Ready for Launch
want to invest!” Social Enterprise Track Business: EGG-Tech, a for-profit enterprise that will provide a battery charging and swapping subscription service to households in... View Details
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
and the picture-taker," Peter Wensberg explains. "It was a new experience, a new pleasure." 79 One-step photography inherently drew people together as they gathered around to see seemingly magical, instantaneous development of the print... View Details
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
explains the absence of government schools motivated her to set up a network of private schools, based on the belief that all children are entitled to an equal education. Questions for Discussion What is the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
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Show Time
An Oscar statue (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Academy Awards are coming up, that annual homage to movies and their place in popular culture. The festivities are also a reminder of entertainment’s importance as a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Dec 2024
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Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
jointly by the HBS Executive Education Program and the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the SPNM program offers immersive, multi-faceted learning and the HBS case method to enable nonprofit leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting
changes in its workforce and shifts in the broader social narrative," she observes. "This type of study adds to our understanding of how organizational and societal practices work together." McGinn notes... View Details
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Steve Alden
Steve Alden has unimpeachable credentials in quantitative analytics, placing first in Massachusetts on the CPA exam in 2007, and in the top-ten nationwide. But when it came time to assess potential MBA... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
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Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
political, economic and cultural purposes," Abdelal writes. "It is the nation connected to a project." Nationalism can propel economic policy in four ways. It sets a direction for policy, partly in response View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies
immediately, allowing customers to receive decision-useful information within 90 minutes of placing a request. “We’re building toward actual real-time capabilities,” Minnick says. Giving private companies... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 22 Feb 2018
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My First Job
from the ground up. And I remember we had every memo that we ever wrote had to have five copies attached to it. The one particular memo I wrote, where I had View Details
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
to our work directly impacts how the world is able to engage with it. A significant amount of our time is spent at work. We seek out roles within organizations that speak to... View Details