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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
traditional American strengths you talk about in the book, and you link it to “kaleidoscope thinking.” What is that? If you look back in history, we’ve never been the lowest-cost producer of goods and services, but we have been smart...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Charged Up
driven by the automotive industry, followed by smart grid stabilization solutions that provide “fill-in” power when customer demand outstrips supply. Given the technology’s potential applications and finite...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Peter Harf, MBA 1974
economics, Harf decided to become a businessman. He had recently married the love of his life, Mechtild, whom he had been dating for 10 years. The pair moved to Cambridge so he could attend HBS. "We had a fantastic time. Madly in love, lots of friends, great parties,...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Estonia, Incorporated
Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey In June, Aman Kumar (MBA 2014) was appointed the first-ever special advisor to the CIO of the Republic of Estonia. Kumar has a day job, too, working in the New York office of enterprise software giant...
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Francis Storrs
- 19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues
particularly excited about is smart lighting—a kind of responsive lighting for city streetlights. “Let’s say you’re on 5th Avenue in New York at 7 p.m. on a weeknight. Do you need the lighting grid to be...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
major developments: Ericsson opened its first 5G-enabled smart factory in the United States, Apple unveiled its first 5G-enabled phone, and carriers like AT&T and Verizon have been preparing their customers for major transition. So has...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy...
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- 12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
4 months. southeastern us Merlin Mobility offers an SaaS platform that enables enterprises to create and deliver Augmented Reality-based instructions to smart devices, helping customers and employees...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
recognized the need for such an organization in 1999. "I wanted to provide smart people in the health-care industry with a way to come together and educate each other on current developments in the field," she says. "By bringing this...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
the two schools would take shape in the next decade with Allston’s emergence as an enterprise zone. “There’s an energy here we want to keep fueling,” said SEAS Dean Frank Doyle, speaking about possibilities for collaboration in the areas...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Monaco's Digital Transformation
the budget, and the people needed to have a coherent and consistent vision,” says Genta. Another key asset is the country’s cohesiveness as noted by Prince Albert when he established the Extended Monaco, Smart Principality program that...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
been a series of interwoven threads. Coming back to HBS has been an opportunity to tie them together," says Senior Lecturer Diana Barrett. The most recent of the three to return to HBS, Barrett joined the faculty in 1998, drawn by her love of teaching, the School's...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model
former consultants and ex-investment bankers). The company handles projects for startups and enterprise clients alike. It also offers online certificate courses through the Wharton School on the economics of blockchain and business in the...
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- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
group. Membership is a commitment to Leadership Now’s principles and to investing your time, expertise, and financial resources toward these issues and participating in our annual meeting. We’re really about three things: First, getting and staying View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
everyone's life." Dubinsky found Apple's casual atmosphere—where smart people thrived—a good fit and accepted a position as a support specialist. "Apple had real energy. I loved the notion that we were changing the world. To me that was a...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Julia Kirynova, CEO of Smart Holding; Volodymyr Kostiuk, Executive Director of Farmak; Andrei Pivovarsky, Managing Director of WOG Holding BV; and Arina Korchmaryov, VP North America Business Group of Cotecna. MARCH 28 Ukraine: The...
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- 15 Jan 2020
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The Business of Access
services. “We’re working to introduce these technologies to clients in their 60s and 70s. These are people who don’t go to bed with their phones beside them.” Such technology, she says, includes screen readers for smart phones, for...
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Maureen Harmon
- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
successes have been nothing short of extraordinary. Goodwin encouraged Marriott to build a hotel in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. The hotel—which Goodwin calls both an astute business decision and smart social one—is scheduled to...
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Jill Radsken
- 04 Feb 2020
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In Harmony
the hot career path at the time. “I loved the intellectual challenge in working with really smart people,” recalls Weinstein. “What I didn’t enjoy very much was that I didn’t actually care whether or not Shell Oil of Canada made an extra...
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Maureen Harmon