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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
another 18 months for a product to get to market. There are parallels here between appliance production and auto production: You find an idea you like, you do a bunch of market research, View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
Veterans Affairs benefits, Hall and fellow Army Ranger Matthew Thompson (MBA 2010) sought to create a business that would help veterans receive the benefits they deserve. The result was TroopSwap, an online source for discounts View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
Feagler’s interest. His favorite assignment was supervising 75 enlisted men responsible for maintaining the electronics and weapons systems. “Most aviators are unhappy unless they’re flying,” he says. “But... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
millions of Americans each year, kill several hundred thousand, and cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless the bar codes on the SmartPak... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
written of his personal experience with the healthcare system. Cue MinuteClinic, located in 640 CVS stores across 25 states. Staffed with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, it provides on-the-spot... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
The expression “letting the fox guard the henhouse” comes to mind when you first hear about Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, where a product manufacturer actually places orders for the retailer, determining quantities based upon consumption data provided by the... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
the problems that people face when they have to make decisions." At the same time, Clark went on to note, today's business world is mediated by electronic communication, and information technology offers... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
purchase goods from distributors. "A retail chain store with several outlets might bid on these items, for example," he says. Auctions are held daily and are done in real time. "You go to the site, see what... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer product questions: Should the product be sold at big-box stores or through upscale specialty boutiques? (In the beginning, Nanda stuck with small museum shops View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
20,000 people to 150,000 people and it's a beautiful area, and I see this kind of old school development happening, you know and these big box View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak’s no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza’s (see page 42) merchandise, payment plans, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
the key decisions about the renovation made early on centered on the crucial role of books. Electronic resources, of course, were also deemed important, but not at the expense of books. It was clear that HBS’s vast — View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
odd to them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
of electronic medical records, which make patient information accessible and portable, have been talked about for a long time. One hurdle to progress on this relates, again, to the existing business model,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
leading apparel maker Liz Claiborne Inc. (LC) were coming off a sixteen-year high that had begun to wane in 1992. A combination of factors — the national recession, weak spending on women's apparel, increased competition, department View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
In a few years there will be no such thing as an e-business," says Vivek Y.Ranadivé (MBA 1983). As founder, chairman, and CEO of Palo Alto-based TIBCO Software, Inc., (www.tibco.com) it would seem that Ranadivé is predicting the demise of... View Details
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