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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
Tracking.” Excerpt “They’d watch for the ice man, pick up the small loose pieces that fell when he was carrying the ice, and suck on them like popsicles. They used to stand under the railway bridge at Queen and De Grassi Streets when the View Details
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Patent search: US patent ownership
Tip: "Assignor" refers to the one giving away the patent rights, "assignee" refers to the one receiving the rights An original patent application may often lead to continuing applications. All continuing applications View Details
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Historical Research - India
Subjects covered include trade regulations on Indian imports and exports, specifically the textile, dyeing and cotton industries; the introduction of steam navigation, including the Calcutta railroad system and the East India Railway...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
picked up steam after a nationwide franchise program launched in 2009. Revenues for that year were $2 million; in 2011, they’re projected to hit $10 million. The company charges employers a percentage of a worker’s hourly rate or salary;...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
helicopter. He was on the firing line in Marine operations in Somalia and Haiti, but it was in Eastern Europe that he was put to his greatest test. At 4:30 a.m. on June 8, 1995, Walsh, by then a captain, was the lead pilot as four helicopters lifted off the deck of the...
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James E. Aisner
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
bit. But there’s no question that the rising rates will have some impact on slowing the growth of appreciation. I’m not saying it’s going to eliminate it, but I think it’ll take a little steam out of the sector, which is what the Fed...
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by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 21 Jun 2020
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Rooting out Racism
John Rice (MBA 1992) John Rice (MBA 1992) Will the weeks of protest and statements of support for racial equity lead to lasting change for the country—or will we once again lose steam and move on to the next crisis, without making...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
Simon cautions, "First, recognize that this is a family trip, not just a trip for you and your spouse. It has to be oriented toward everyone. If you plan to have a great time with your kids, then it will work." The family slept in tents, hotels, lodges, and palaces....
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
guests. “There is great pressure in this job,” says Djelic. “There are so many needs and so little money. Letting off steam is important for me and my colleagues.” The go-go pace of his work life can serve a useful political purpose,...
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- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. The trend of mandatory sustainability reporting picked up steam as consumers, investors, and civil society in general increasingly demonstrated that they value the social...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
A final explanation is intriguing. It states that new inventions, even manifestly useful ones such as computers, require some "percolation" time before they are productively employed. Studies of the history of steam and electric...
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by Andrew McAfee
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Illustration by Erin Robinson At one end of the global coffee supply chain are the diners who gather for brunch at the sidewalk tables outside Chloe’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Regulars there order the fluffy banana-walnut pancakes and View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
Chinese steamed bun with hickory-smoked pulled pork, pickled daikon relish, and Asian plum barbecue sauce. How to: Build a Brand Know what you want to build. “Food, music, and art are the three pillars of our brand. Those are things that...
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April White
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Turnarounds and Transformation
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/02/01/peloton-turnaround-gains-some-steam-despite-eighth-straight-quarterly-loss/?sh=2d355a232283" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">Peloton Turnaround Gains Some Steam Despite...
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- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
level of rescuing. THE GROUCHO CRITERION “Remember when the Marx Brothers were burning the train to keep it going?” says Steinwender, referring to the notorious scene in Go West where Harpo and the gang chop up the train mid-motion so that Groucho can feed the View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
and infrastructure to launch new product lines or businesses, or enter new markets. Industrial Age business innovation's favored producers. The innovations included: Physical or analog production and distribution technologies (machines, railroads, View Details
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by Lynda M. Applegate
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
social inequality." Romuald Kepa added: "The invention of the steam engine and resulting shifts in the society are great providers of insight
Luckily, (the) world did not collapse " Others were not so sure that...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
will be held July 13Ð25, 1997. "It's an incredibly exciting time for the MIS Interest Group," says Nolan. "New technologies create new opportunities to capture economic value, and information technologies are the most robust technologies since the advent of the View Details
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Elaine Gottlieb
- 05 Oct 2016
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Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
years ago, as being as important as the first machine age they attribute to the development of steam power. These are ideas that can expand the potential for growth, if not for jobs and greater economic equality. But on the other hand,...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
posted a slide show of pictures, and several of them were of me working a steam drill," Mukunda says. "I was buried under so much gear that, as I discovered weeks later, the students had no idea that was me." While Mukunda...
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