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- 01 Jun 1996
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Reinventing Marketing
interactions between instructors and students are some of the latest technological innovations in Marketing classrooms. Associate Professor Raymond P. Burke uses his "virtual shopping" computer software in the elective New Product...
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- 12 Feb 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
software company and build video games together.’” The Dreamfly’s mission is a return to a starting point for Mendhro, who was raised in rural Pakistan as the daughter of the village’s first physician, who founded the area’s first...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2000
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Internet Tsunami
system, much more so than in the United States," the New York Times (June 7, 2000) reported. Merchants, ranging from toy stores to fishmongers, pay a monthly fee to access Rakuten's e-commerce software and customer database. Merchants...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?
services are becoming more tradable, and that creates opportunities for the United States. But let’s not kid ourselves. These services will also find themselves in a run for their lives. Indian companies, for instance, are already doing quite well exporting services...
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- 07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect
backed if he had chosen the software industry as a career.” Tanzi explained that, owing to recent advances in gene sequencing and data mining, he believed he could identify many more genes in a short time with a relatively modest...
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Linda Kush
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change
homework via phone. Before long, Khan was tutoring 10 or 15 cousins after work. He started writing simple software to give them practice problems and making how-to videos so he could reach more kids efficiently. In 2009, he quit his job...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation
the great equalizer,” says Gibbons, who himself makes use of voice-recognition software on his PC and a portable, computerized organizer that uses a Braille-audio interface. The challenge, he observes, is convincing employers that with...
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- 01 May 2013
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Paolo M. Pellegrini, MBA 1985 & Henrietta Jones
first Italian minicomputer was developed,” recalls Pellegrini, who now lives in New York City. “In high school, I had summer internships at various software development companies, and I credit those experiences with a big portion of my...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Up Against The Firewall
used software to launch their attacks. “Under the press of business and getting a product to market, some commercial software manufacturers have indulged in a ‘good–enough’ standard,” says Langstaff. “They...
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- 11 Feb 2021
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Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
a job earning at least $40,000 a year. Salaries for the kind of software jobs he’s aiming for pay about double his previous salary. “The training is funded by ‘career impact bonds,’ drawn from a $40 million fund provided by philanthropic...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
high impact." After a series of promotions, she became a member of the founding executive team of Apple software spin-off Claris, where, as VP international, she grew international revenue to 50 percent of the business. In 1992 she met...
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- 28 May 2019
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Leading Questions
CEO also has a plan to empower her team. Synthesis uses Agile Action Planning—a trademark of the fast-paced world of software development—to help the CEO create a 90-day plan to achieve a tangible goal, such as having 50 percent of all...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2005
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A Well-Tuned Life
founded Carry-a-Tune Technologies, a company that sells software products that use the fun of karaoke to help people improve their singing — and, no doubt, their self-image. It happens that self-worth is an important theme in the...
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- 07 Dec 2015
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Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
and agriculture production on the West Coast and in the Far East, and later consulting for several East Coast software companies, Sprinkles made his first pilgrimage to Mexico in 1999 on a four-day journey without food or water....
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
company’s financials. Ballard also knew that Black men were nearly three times more likely to be denied a loan than white men, and that the figures weren’t much better for women, Latinos, or immigrants. So he challenged a group of data scientists and View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Capital Tech Opportunities who invests in B2B software companies in the late-stage growth phase. Hopkins cites an example that was brought to life in a case discussion attended by the protagonist, a founder of a company who had placed his...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Aug 2021
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Cracking the Code
applications, connecting data sources and other software together in one place. Its tools are designed to be as powerful as they are straightforward. In fact, the company’s proposition is that many large, venture-backed companies could’ve...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
to think that bitcoin can disrupt not only major companies like payment processors (more than $400 billion in market cap), remittances companies and financial software providers, but also other non currency–related industries like...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
transparent, it’s still very opaque for the average consumer.” “While the technology is technically transparent, it’s still very opaque for the average consumer.” A big part of what makes these systems work is that the code itself is transparent, so you can trust the...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action
software and services company. The CRC is not her first startup: in 1986 Darwall cofounded ViewStar Corporation, a software company serving Fortune 500 clients that was eventually acquired by Mosaix. At the...
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Susan Young