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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Unseen looks at how companies, advertisers, and artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries used images of “the Indian” to promote the railroad, market specific messages, or sell a range of products that included coffee and...
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- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
surprises for new CEOs arise from time and knowledge limitations—there is so much to do in complex new areas, with imperfect information and never enough time. Others stem from unexpected and unfamiliar new roles and altered professional relationships. Still others...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
turn to the water-rich countries for grains and other foods. This trade in comestibles — flowing from lush lands to parched places — has earned wheat, rice, and other crops the sobriquet “virtual water.” For most water-stressed or...
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- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
product for the conversion of crop residues from corn into fermentable sugars for the production of motor fuels. But the problem was that the company only controlled one piece...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
the global food chain. “Global linkages between food and energy are hard to understand. Might cutting off Russian oil help drive green technologies in Europe? Might it increase oil production in the United States? I’m struggling to get...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
an excerpt from Neeley’s book focuses on how to counteract feelings of isolation that can crop up in the absence of contact with other team members. In part two, alumni weigh in with their own pros and cons of working from home; part...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of bringing a value-added product to consumers, Baker says of the marketing of the White Russet. The fresh market would place the most value on...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Abbey Winery (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 606-004 Freemark Abbey must decide whether to harvest in view of the possibility of rain. Rain could damage the crop but delaying the harvest would be risky. On the other hand, rain...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
improve productivity and efficiency in their daily operations, so did HBS faculty find themselves in the position of trying to determine if and how information technology could add value in a curriculum deeply rooted in a tradition of...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
frequently the case in Latin America, such a license should not be taken for granted, especially when collection of tolls appears to be a rather unpopular means of funding, as revealed from several of our interviews.6 Another example along these lines would be a...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
asked everyone to envision a rural landscape painting with a river running through it. “On one side is an arid, compromised crop that won’t come to harvest. On the other is a rich jungle of exotic plants with names like Twitter,...
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