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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
adapted to produce a positive print shortly after exposure of the film within the camera."44 In a memorandum dated December 23, 1943, Frederick J. Binda, a research chemist, recounted, "On December 13, 1943, Mr. E. H. Land called me to...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
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Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
some instances, industry reached out to HBS to develop case studies around specific issues in their companies, benefitting both HBS and businesses. In 1922, General Electric established a partnership with HBS to produce case studies about the company. A faculty View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Dateline Belgrade
breakthrough memorandum while riding out a NATO bombing raid in a Belgrade bunker, the Financial Times (June 14, 1999) asserted that Castenfelt was instrumental "in convincing the Yugoslav leadership of the need to end the war."...
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- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
reactor, in the US. Bill Gates is its chairman. Earlier this year, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with the China National Nuclear Corporation targeting the first working prototype in China. ThorCon Power has designed a...
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Research Links - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin vol. 21, no. 3 (1945). “Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration,” The Architectural Forum vol. XLVII, no. 4 (October, 1927). Lawrence, William. Memorandum About the Gift by Mr. George F....
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- 18 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 18, 2006
than $100 million. These transactions are large enough to require the help of a financial adviser and attract both strategic and financial bidders. The sale process described is that of a private auction, including a confidential information View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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The Gift - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
well being of the country,” the HBS yearbook noted. “It is therefore not surprising that he should have made this great gift in a manner that was consistent with the whole course of life.”12 10 William Lawrence, Memorandum about the Gift...
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Digital Archival Resources
potential, design specifications, and monetary value of Edwin Land's new instant photography system that would be commercially released in 1948. Memorandum to Polaroid Company: Submitted by George Albert Smith, Jr. and John G. McLean,...
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- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which seeks fast growth of its own. To...
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by Kim Girard
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
us every two to four weeks during that period as we prepared a case study describing his efforts. He also gave us access to his daily calendar, as well as to assorted e-mail correspondence and internal memorandums and reports. From this...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership
memorandum advocated a complete change in the firm’s organizational structure — a change that would, in time, decisively accelerate Goldman Sachs’s becoming the nation’s and then the world’s preeminent investment bank, and in time would...
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Garry Emmons
- 10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009
considered the communication he had just received. It was from Permira, the leading European buyout fund, and concerned its fourth fund, to which Altoona had made a $100 million commitment. The memorandum offered investors a chance to...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Nicolas P. Retsinas and Justin GinsburghHarvard Business School Case 210-024 A United States private equity fund, The Saboput Group, must decide whether to invest in a new technology park development in Chennai, India. The case provides the reader with a detailed...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
retailers, including Gap Inc., Target, and JCPenney, that took place just a year and a half before the fire: At the meeting in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, in April 2011, retailers discussed a contractually enforceable memorandum that...
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- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
Double-Digit Growth Experiences By: Werker, Eric D Abstract—This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10% or more over a period of 8 years or...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
eight-page telex detailing the difficulties. Coincidentally, an equally impassioned memorandum was sent by a field applications engineer working out of Denver. Intel was in a life-and-death struggle to establish the standard for the...
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- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
Francisco–based home sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's city leadership now had to make the new rules function well. By the summer of 2014, the question of how exactly to do that remained unsettled. A Memorandum of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
European distribution rights to two highly lucrative drugs. Purchase this exercise:http://hbr.org/search/911044-PDF-ENG Remicade/Simponi: Legal Memorandum Guhan Subramanian and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Supplement 911-046...
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Carmen Nobel