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- 10 Jun 2009
- News
A Kindle Connection
- 11 May 2009
- News
Will bigger Kindle be boon for e-readers?
- 04 Oct 2011
- News
Ten Reasons Amazon Kindle Fire Will Succeed
- 08 Mar 2016
- News
Do Trade Agreements Kill Jobs?
- 04 Feb 2019
- News
Betting on Books: Can the Indie Bookstore Revival Last?
- 07 Dec 2012
- News
The oil man who figured out fracking
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thomas S. Volpe, MBA 1976
fund at HBS “to add fuel to the fire that kindles the entrepreneurial spirit.” In a career that has included leadership roles at firms such as Blyth Eastman Paine Webber, Hambrecht & Quist, and Volpe Brown Whelan & Company—as well as his... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
designed an innovative field-study course called Consulting and Management Practice. The course provided student teams with intensive faculty coaching on projects with actual clients. Turner cites the course as his "most rewarding experience at HBS." His year in India... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
lost not only its ability to develop and manufacture high-tech products like televisions, memory chips, and laptops, but also the expertise to produce emerging “hot products” such as the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
evolution in the Darwinian world of high-tech business. Cafe Culture: CEO Russ Wilcox in E Ink’s offices, a converted factory space that includes a central gathering area for impromptu meetings and brainstorming sessions. On the table: Amazon’s View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
off-the-grid locations are difficult,” notes Risher. “For schools in these areas, e-readers, which are rapidly coming down in cost, are ideal.” With a one-time donation of 30 Kindles from Amazon, Risher launched Worldreader last winter in... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart
Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he and cofounder Colin McElwee... View Details
- 11 Apr 2020
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Reading Together, Apart
subscription-based app allows people to connect over video while reading a children’s book together in real time, as if the services of FaceTime and Kindle were knitted together. The product took off, particularly among military families.... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
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Book Smart
these children to have the same opportunity. Risher had been an executive at Amazon and Microsoft, so he certainly knew plenty about tech and business. He also had connections, such as Steve Kessel, longtime head of Kindle, who heard the story of the abandoned library... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
BULLETIN EXPANDS DIGITAL OFFERINGS Following on the heels of the June debut of our iPad edition, the Bulletin is now available for download in the Google Play and Kindle Fire newsstands. Smartphone users have new options, too: The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Responsibility of Power by Edward B. Atkeson (AMP 64, 1972) (Rowman & Littlefield) Beyond Justice (a novel) by Allen Dark (MBA 1972) (CreateSpace) Gaia's Limits Kindle Edition by Rud Istvan (MBA 1974) (Eloquent Books) Patent Valuation:... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
$300 when he arrived at HBS. Through contacts at Harvard, he began a long-term association with the Rockefeller family, who kindled in him an awareness of “the wide canvas of global problems and the difference money could make.” In 1981... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
valuable contributions from Nasdaq and the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, plus access to the online valuation models and course. The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros: Five Steps for Picking Stocks (Little Books. Big Profits) View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
been kindled when he was seven by Gordy’s Elementary History of the United States, a gift from his father in 1925. “I read it twenty times,” Chandler said. “It gave me a wonderful advantage as a historian. I knew every generation, every... View Details