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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Baker Library Historical Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education... View Details

29 Jul 2022
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Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

onto the exec team.” "When there's more scarcity and higher demand, that puts a premium on the type of person and on your willingness to pay." That push for gender diversity in senior management could spell an opportunity for women to make a case for higher salaries,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

26 Jan 2015
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National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

business operations, he settled on the field of health care as an area where he could really make a difference. "There is no lack of problems in health care, and I think that someone with a structured analytical background can make a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

04 May 2023
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Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion

This year marks the return of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an experiential learning opportunity that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum hands-on exposure to how business... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Business School. 77. Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1949, 2. Contact Baker Library Special Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email:... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

came in the field of health care, the firm’s investments now include software, communications technology, semiconductors and electronics, and financial services. With nearly $15 billion under management and over 140 employees, Summit has... View Details

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Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health - Health Care

The course provides an understanding of how business can play a significant role in improving the quality of life of low- income individuals and households especially in developing country environments, but also in some developed country situations. View Details

21 Dec 2011
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The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

"Michael Porter didn't get to be a giant in the field of competition and strategy by hunting small game." Joan Magretta begins her new book on Harvard Business School's Michael Porter's work by noting that, from the start of his... View Details

Keywords: by Joan Magretta

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Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details

Keywords: Formalization; Teams; Decentralization; Hierarchy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Self-managing Organizations; Future Of Work; Flat Organization

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Corporate Restructuring and Business Insolvency: Economic Impact and Best Practices

By: Stuart C. Gilson

Stuart C. Gilson is studying how severe financial distress impacts corporate policies and economic resource allocation. He is also studying how managers can best respond to financial distress in order to preserve and grow value. He is undertaking this research... View Details

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Morgan and other established banks that had a hold on heavy industries like steel and railroads were reluctant to invest in riskier emerging fields such as retail—leaving an opening for smaller family firms like Lehman Brothers. “In an... View Details

17 Nov 2015
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What is HBS START Week?

whom they will spend the rest of the year; it’s an exciting day! Initial cases are led by FIELD faculty and are designed to ease students into the structure of a case discussion. Socially, the SA and the START Ambassadors lead a series... View Details

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Loeb House | About

Learning, established to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation at HBS and at institutions around the globe. The center is named for a longtime HBS faculty member, the late C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen (MBA 1943, DCS 1953), one of the founders of the... View Details

22 Jul 2002
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Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

the last major consumer packaged goods advertiser to stay with a 15 percent fee, is moving in this new direction. It is sometimes a pragmatic pathway to managing risk, uncertainty, and performance for the long-term benefit of both parties. Advertising has been a... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

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Participation - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

tone of voice and body language can have a powerful effect on how safe students find the environment for participation. Experienced instructors may calibrate their interactions with individual students depending on the participant's background in the View Details

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a dynamic structural model using View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

08 Mar 2022
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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

09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

already suggests that experimental economics has at least reached a sufficient state of maturity that we can try to take stock of its progress and consider how that progress matches the anticipations we may have had for the field several... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2017
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The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

investment of a founder’s time" Koning’s working paper, released in May, is titled Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem. The coauthors were Aaron Chatterji and Sharique Hasan, both of Duke... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

in Management Essentials Field of Study: Leave blank Grade: "Complete" Activities and Societies: Leave blank Description: Management Essentials is an 8-week, 35-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. Management... View Details

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