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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
computing and open-source software allow bootstrapping entrepreneurs like Bahadir to do more with less. And funding sources are more diverse than ever. Unger, for example, has raised seed money from sources of so-called patient capital:... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran forces, Dyer remembers Nigerian... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
aircrafts, vessels, and buildings; and translate a visual image (e.g., a pile of black rocks) into a number on a spreadsheet (e.g., tons of coal ready for shipment). And because they run not only on BlackSky’s terrestrial computers but... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
in the computer industry, while Professor Malcolm S. Salter's work on corporate strategy, organization, and governance looks at how ownership structure affects organizational performance. Asso-ciate Professor Karen Hopper Wruck, who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BioMine (now BlueOak), which won the 2011 HBS Alumni New Venture Competition. The competition's judges were struck by the company's smart business plan and how it addressed a very great need. According to the EPA, in 2007 an estimated 29.9 million desktop View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
this is not the bad thing that happened to Qantas flight 32-- the bad thing that happened to Qantas flight 32. Because an Airbus A380, it's so sophisticated, that the plane can actually sustain an injury like this and continue flying for 14 hours. The on-board View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
countries. From 2000 to 2004, India’s offshoring industries grew from $4 billion to $12.8 billion, accounting for 6 percent of the increase in its GDP during this period. As founder and chairman of Satyam Computer Services, B. Ramalinga... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
an MBA. It had to do with output to the client of a new computer system in New York City. The day after Columbus Day, no one was in the office, and I looked at the reports that had come out that were going to the client. And it looked odd... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust embraced the importance of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Artist Christo Visits HBS
To illustrate entrepreneurship from a different angle, HBS professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon and research associate Ann Leamon wrote a case about Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-wife team known for their massive, self-funded outdoor art projects. (Their... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
It’s been a grim couple of weeks out there. Personally, I’ve had more déjà vu than I’ve seen in a long time, as Yogi Berra might have said, especially after losing a string of tough doubleheaders. My own sobering twin bill has consisted of revisiting, in recent days,... View Details
- 30 Dec 2015
- News
SimpliSafe’s Success Awakens Sleeping Giant
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
It doesn’t seem right that F. Gorham Brigham Jr. (MBA 1939) should drive to the Bulletin’s offices in Teele Hall to discuss his 58 years (and counting) as class secretary. After so many years of service, it would be much more fitting for the magazine (to which he’s... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
the Time & Life Building, she was given what were then state-of-the-art tools: an adding machine and an IBM Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
dramatically expanding Virginia’s investment in computer-science education. That was the moment the Amazon RFP arrived. A $1.1 billion investment in the tech-talent pipeline, with a goal of more than doubling the annual number of degrees awarded in View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
computerize financial data and provide investment professionals with real-time market information and analysis. The computer terminal he and his partners created, which became known as the Bloomberg Terminal, transformed the buying and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
talk to their peers about recent developments in this burgeoning industry. As copresident of this year's Communications, Media, & Computing Ventures Club, he helped stage Cyberposium '96, a gathering of high-tech gurus and corporate... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
have similarly discovered over the past 25 years. By supporting Lang's creativity and unconventional thinking, high-tech startups and established computer firms alike have found their assets turning to gold under her fingers. "I've always... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to Gazelle's website; get a price for their used smartphone, tablet,... View Details