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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
photographer Ansel Adams. Adams remembered, “I responded warmly to Land’s intellect and personality; we seemed to intuitively understand each other.” (1) After purchasing one of the photographer’s print portfolios, Land wrote to Adams, “My own admiration for your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market.... View Details
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Pranav Kothari
interests. "I was amazed by the infrastructure, how smoothly things functioned here." Impressed both by mechanics and America, Pranav pursued an engineering degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, his curiosity... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
Consider the title. "The Electronic Century" is the twenty-first century. The "inventing" refers to the creation of the technological and institutional foundations—the "infrastructure"—during the latter... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
Indeed, a majority of the Bank's 185-member countries never receive a chance to sit at the table, suffering in tangible and less-tangible ways in terms of continued poverty for their people. In 2008 the World Bank's two main development View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
a set of technical skills and, particularly, marketing leadership. We basically branded our story: Two Harvard grads coming back to our hometown, trying to build a better education system. That was our sales pitch. We took a business... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Modularity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
institutions across sectors must be mobilized before technical solutions can be applied. Along similar lines, technical knowledge of solutions alone is not enough to scale... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology
agility. How Do They Stand Out? ITPSD plays a crucial role in ensuring that IT services align with institutional goals, delivering value beyond the purely technical aspects of IT. Unlike View Details
- 14 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020
virtual experience requires plans to onboard, train, and develop impactful work for students to take on during this abnormal time. 2. Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting The importance of naming and addressing institutional... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
at the Harvard Institute for International Development, gave the keynote address. He noted that between 1986 and 1990 alone, some sixty thousand middle and high-level African managers left their countries of origin. To remedy this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
“If each household ” Union of Concerned Scientists “Common Sense on Climate Change, Solution #3” “The top 3,000 .” UN Environmental Program Finance Initiative. 2010. “universal Ownership: Why environmental externalities matter to View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Commerce to help implement technical assistance programs focusing on energy in over 30 countries. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, expanding a microfinance institution and launching... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
publications and technical journals revealed that firms in each country followed a distinctive, national pattern. U.S. companies used a tightly focused, project-based mode of organization that emphasized experimentation and relied on... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Benjamin Abstract—I examine Google's pattern and practice of tying to leverage its dominance into new sectors. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Stanford Business School, INSEAD in France, IESE in Spain, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "EDP has helped create a working relationship between institutions with a truly global point of view," says Clark. "The Bank and the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Artist Support | Baker Library
who provided technical advice about Polaroid cameras and films. They included Paul Caponigro, William Clift, Marie Cosindas (an early experimenter with Polaroid color film), Nicholas Dean, Gerry Sharpe, Brett Weston, Ann Bell Robb, Laurie... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
which casts the profit-seeking incentives of firms as the main driver of technical change. In a series of influential writings, von Hippel and colleagues found empirical evidence that flatly contradicted the producer-centered model of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
went on to serve as deputy project manager for the $200 million renovation of Grand Central Terminal as a vice president with LaSalle Partners from 1994 to 1996. In 2012, the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art recognized his work... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
Asked which institutions must be in place in order for African countries to grow, experts on a panel at the Africa Business Conference had no shortage of suggestions. One panelist, representing the International Monetary Fund, voted for a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace