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- 01 Dec 2006
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Forestalling Terror
and withhold by exception.” Have private-sector firms undergone similarly rapid, wholesale reinvention? I would say that IBM’s transformation under Lou Gerstner (MBA ’65), with its shift from hardware to software and services, is an...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
Abercrombie (MBA 1993) was working for a leading educational software publisher outside of Los Angeles. New research on early brain development inspired her and the company’s chief technology officer’s interest in developing learning...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
very durable and the company offers software updates and support for their older model phones. “That is why iPhones tend to be resold multiple times,” Serafeim says. The second is branding. “It is cool to have an iPhone,” Serafeim...
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Jennifer Meyers
- 18 Mar 2021
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Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
Chicago. About this program When most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black. But going blind in his early 20’s didn’t stop him from living. Becoming an avid coder, he built View Details
- 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 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
to solve the problem - is an organization in trouble. Are there other lessons? We've awakened to the fact that in software, total quality counts. In the 1960s, we assumed that the replacement cycle would automatically filter out software...
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- 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 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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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
IBM team pitched their superiors on the company building a computer that could compete on Jeopardy!. It was bold, even risky; Jeopardy! was the ur–game show of idioms and double meanings. Building software for natural-language processing...
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- 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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- 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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- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Building blocks: “In mastery learning, a student moves at his or her own pace and takes as many shots on goal as needed to master a concept, before advancing. If I’m one teacher with 30 kids, it’s very hard to pull...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out
versus Apple terms: Should AGR adopt a Microsoft Windows–style ecosystem, where it focuses on its core platform (Burro) but shares data with partners that could build out additional tools? Or should it take the Apple approach of owning all the hardware and View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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RoboCar, the Sequel
stations, just do it all with software,” Alden explained. “Basically, software is replacing all this infrastructure.” As investors show interest, the 84-year-old Alden looks to the future and sees himself as part of a relay race. “We’re...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Back from the Brink
high-tech consultants, software developers, and help-desk professionals. Yet it wasn’t so long ago that Mills, brought in by ZeroChaos’s holding company to build up the firm, realized one day that “no one was buying our services, and we...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Business Plan Contest
to the traditional track and 8 to the social enterprise track. FBC Systems, the winning team for the traditional business track, provides software that enables engineers and managers in product development to estimate design costs...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
bottles of correction fluid later, Staples continues to expand. "You have to live the reality," explains Stemberg, "but dream the dream." Yet the plethora of products, services, and satisfied customers is more than even Staples' visionary founder fantasized a decade...
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