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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
looking at a lot of wasted time and money. I watched them take each crate off the truck and slip it into a sling, which would then lift the crate into the hold of the ship." It would be nineteen years before McLean converted his...
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Capital Changes | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
reverse splits. 49 83633 Capital Changes /find/databases/capital-changes Capital Changes US (Corporate Capital Histories), provides capital structure timelines of U.S. public corporations by recording changes; name changes, new stock...
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- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore agglomeration of multinationals than the agglomeration of domestic firms. These findings remain robust when we address potential reverse...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
during his own business career. Start At The Top "If you want good decision-making, contention is essential," George says. "When I joined Medtronic, one of the things undermining its performance was conflict avoidance. To View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented...
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- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
able to attract talent at a discount; the reverse may be true for stigmatized organizations. Likewise, investments in employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options may allow for a discount in...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
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Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Past Issues - Alumni
December 2018 Tomorrow, Transformed A vision of HBS in the 21st century Source Code Donna Dubinsky has made a career leading tech revolutions. Her latest and most ambitious: reinventing artificial intelligence—by reverse engineering the...
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- 23 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Brand a Next-Generation Product
won't be buggy and there won't be a learning curve.” A follow-up experiment reversed the task. Participants learned that the firm Garmin had adopted a sequential naming approach for the first five generations of its in-car GPS receiver,...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
customers over a period of four months. We predict and find that should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are held significantly longer than want DVDs (e.g., action films) within-customer. Similarly, we also predict and find that people are more likely to rent DVDs in one...
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Martha Lagace
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1.16 Student Educational Records - MBA
dates of enrollment, anticipated or actual graduation date, degrees, academic honors, prior degrees, and recent educational institutions attended. Please note that the Registrars of Harvard College and of Harvard's graduate and...
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- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
the leadership team of BTG Bioliquids in Enschede, the Netherlands, to learn about their fast pyrolysis technology, which converts second-generation biomass residues into bio-oils and other useful renewable bio-chemicals. The authors:...
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- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
150 other companies in signing a Human Rights Campaign letter opposing the legislation. He decided to make no public statements to support or reject the governor’s expected signature of the bill—that is, until Disney’s annual meeting with shareholders on March 9. At...
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by James Heskett
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
firms and risky debt. To generate the size of spread increases observed during 2008-9, the model requires only disappointment of overoptimistic beliefs rather than large negative shocks. Diagnostic expectations offer a realistic, parsimonious way to produce financial...
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United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
as far back as 1962. Data is processed into a standard format with consistent coding and valuation. All values are converted into US dollars using exchange rates supplied by the countries or derived from monthly market rates and volume of...
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
processing include exposing a negative in a camera and then developing, rinsing, fixing, washing, and drying the negative. To reverse the image, the negative is then contacted with a positive sheet, which is also developed, rinsed, fixed,...
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- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
Firestone's bottom-up capital budgeting process functioned flawlessly, quickly converting Ford and General Motors' demands into concrete commitments to radial production capacity. In a November 1972 Executive Committee meeting,...
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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
decision-making procedures were unjust. Subtly activating performers' prosocial identities reversed these reactions. Results highlight how roles and identities shape the experience and delivery of unfavorable outcomes; when procedures are...
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Martha Lagace
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Building Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
monograph cover, 1998. Henri Termeer papers.In 1991, the FDA approved the first treatment for Gaucher disease, a rare genetic disease. Genzyme’s drug, Ceredase, reversed symptoms and halted the disease for patients who had suffered for...
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
of Readiness (CORe) program, note that policies for these options may differ. Do you offer any discounts? Effective May 7, 2021, a 30% discount is available for HBS Online participants who have enrolled in at least 1 prior qualifying HBS...
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