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- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
outcome for the child. "SynapDx is doing very well and completing a large clinical study thanks to a $15 million investment from Google Ventures," says Anquetil, who retains an ownership stake in the company but is no longer involved in...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
a few big hospitals or financial services firms. Think of it as a private LinkedIn group or a Google circle. “Another analogue is a weather map,” says Bonaparte. “We’re allowing you to get ahead of the pattern.” Sharing is also common...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
getting done or sharing information related to work, one model has been to codify everything. I’ll give you the example of GitLab. They have something called the “one handbook" policy. What that means is that they write down everything so there’s no uncertainty. It’s...
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- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
of trying to go for those home runs all the time and the next Google or the next Facebook, you know, you can certainly make great returns when you go for singles and doubles. And we've seen that by having a diverse group of people, the...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
technologies to come) is needed to develop that knowledge. "Education is a $3 trillion industry globally, and no player in the world controls even 1 percent of it," he says. "I think there will be a Facebook or Google in learning. I'd...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
cases and then making it very intuitive and simple, like the original Google home page. I think a lot of the innovation today is around trying to understand the core consumer-use cases and the needs that crypto technology can really...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
censorship on the rise, most young people in China today have no awareness of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The government can kick Google out of China, but all bets are off when Chinese students return from travel outside the...
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Deborah Blagg
- 30 Apr 2021
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Revealing the Rules
skills in the house, spent his after-school hours submitting hundreds of job applications on her behalf. But even after following all the advice he could mine from Google and the public library, they didn’t get any call-backs. It was Ng’s...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called Project Loon, headed by...
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- 05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life
devices were large enough to be notable—and, basically, it just became one more thing to remember. It just wasn't worth the mental trouble to have that. And part of it is because I was pretty good about, if I went for a run, I generally knew the path I was taking and...
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- 10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
you think about what happiness is? Neil Pasricha: You know, happiness is a really big, gigantic word. It is-- it's funny, if you go to Google and you type in "how to be" the first dropdown in the suggestions is "happy." People are typing...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
space-related startups, including Skybox Imaging, a satellite-imagery company acquired by Google for $500 million in 2014, and Spire, a data-gathering company headed by Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) that has raised $80 million in total....
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
homepage is Google News, which scans 3,400 news sources for key topics that I follow. I also get online and print versions of the major newspapers. What talent do you wish you had? Humor. What are you most proud of? In business, finding...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown
a kitten dangling from a tree limb. One visit to Google kills that idea; there are already dozens of companies catering to premenstrual women. What about a service that can make a visit to an urgent care clinic more efficient and draw...
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- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
Googles it right away, says someone must've set this to music. Now that's an insight that only he had. He didn't find anyone, but his first thought is, I'll make a mixtape. This is a perfect book for mixtape. He doesn't say, I'm going to...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
today, or even eighteen months ago,” says Tal Riesenfeld (MBA 2008), vice president of business development. Between his first and second years at HBS, Riesenfeld worked for Google in California, where he met a number of Silicon Valley...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
practices, and bad actors can undermine even the most successful platforms. The book concludes with an exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google vs. Siri), ridesharing and autonomous car...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
inspire curiosity in my kids and read to them every day, I call that a win. Peter: The first thing I’ve learned is that you have to be intentional by using calendars and Outlook or Google docs to stay on top of everything. Whether it’s an...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
nearly 350 in just two years, and a recent investment of $110 million by TPG Growth, Evolent is keeping that momentum going. "Working in health care right now is like joining Google in 1999," says Blackley. "We're on the cusp of a...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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All For One
opposing, ideas. In the mid-2000s, Google was outstripping its storage capacity as it began adding applications like Gmail and YouTube to its portfolio. Engineering SVP Bill Coughran encouraged innovation to redesign the storage system,...
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