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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
productive automatic interactions. To understand the goals of this effort, and the extent of current difficulties (even in this relatively IT-enabled industry), it is worth quoting extensively from the RosettaNet website's Executive Overview: The View Details
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by Andrew McAfee
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
markets, from regulations to a demanding customer base that includes individuals, institutions, and broker/dealers. To meet these challenges, he said, the New York Stock Exchange has become "a very electronic market" whose...
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by James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
group. "A large measure of our success is based on the tremendous legacy of support for our mission from enterprising alumni like you. We see OPM as a very important part of where the School is going in the next century." The next day, Associate Professor John J....
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- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
modest tuition. “I used to have thrills when doing multimillion-dollar business deals,” says Crane. “Now, when I make a $10,000 loan, it’s a jewel.” The former president and CEO of the electronic database publisher COMPS InfoSystems,...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Reach Out to Haiti
Medicine Institute, Seth Moulton (HBS ’11) collaborated on the development of an iPhone electronic health record application that doctors can use to track patients in the field. And Haiti native Jules Walter and Jean-Claude Homawoo (both...
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- 22 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: 3M
every day – from respirators that allow painters and welders to breathe easier to stethoscopes that allow doctors to monitor astronauts in space. We generate sales of nearly $32 billion from our five business groups (Health Care, Industrial, Consumer, Safety &...
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Jerry Yang
Yang and fellow Stanford University doctoral student, David Filo, created the precursor to Yahoo! to aid them in their use of the burgeoning world wide web. What began as a simple hobby eventually turned into one of the few success stories of the nineties Internet...
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Uncas A. Whitaker
Whitaker built the world’s largest manufacturer of electrical devices and connectors. His company was instrumental in the development of miniature components and advanced computer technologies which have been incorporated into literally thousands of business operations...
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Walter H. Wheeler, Jr.
Wheeler served as CEO or Chairman of Pitney-Bowes for over three decades. Under his leadership, Pitney-Bowes grew from a regional postage meter manufacturer generating $3 million in revenues to a $300 million diversified direct mail machinery operation. He presided...
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J. Basil Ward
Ward presided over a period of dramatic growth and development for Addressograph. Through careful acquisitions and targeted investments, he enabled the company to stay at the forefront of the printing and typesetting industry. Under his leadership, the company’s...
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James G. Treybig
Treybig was a pioneer in the early days of computer development. In 1976, his company introduced the first fail-safe, no fault minicomputer at a time when system failures and breakdowns were commonplace. By stringing together a series of computers in tandem, clients...
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Joseph Boyer
Boyer helped William S. Burroughs develop the adding machine and was the inventor of the first successful pneumatic hammer. In 1900, Boyer moved the Burroughs Adding Machine Company to Detroit. By 1930, at the time of Boyer's death, Burroughs Adding Machine Company was...
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John R. Sculley
Leaving his position as CEO of Pepsi-Cola, Sculley’s first task as head of Apple involved cutting costs and cutting people, most notably, Apple’s founder and symbol, Steven Jobs. Though the firing of Jobs was difficult for many to digest, Sculley’s rehabilitation plans...
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Enos M. Barton
In 1872, Barton co-founded Western Electric Manufacturing Company. In 1881, the company was reorganized as the Western Electric Company and licensed under the Bell patents to manufacture instruments for AT&T. Barton oversaw the international expansion of Western...
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William H. Gates III
In 1980, Gates signed a contract with IBM to develop an operating system for their new personal computer. Gates retained the rights to his operating system, MS-DOS, and struck deals with nearly all other manufacturers of personal computers, who felt their computers had...
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Paul V. Galvin
Creating the Motorola car radio, Galvin emerged as the premier producer of car radios in the 1930s. Galvin also invented the walkie-talkie, producing some 40,000 during World War II. In 1947, Galvin introduced the first practical television set under $200, helping...
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Lawrence J. Ellison
Ellison founded the second largest software company in the world – building the first commercially viable relational database. Oracle applications power more business-to-business and administrative systems than any other software provider. Through his company, Ellison...
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Richard J. Egan
Egan co-founded EMC and built it into the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory storage devices. Between 1979 and 1986, EMC’s revenues doubled each year catapulting it into the Fortune 500 in less than 10 years.
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James H. Clark
Clark is considered a serial entrepreneur. In 1982, he founded Silicon Graphics, which became a leading provider of three-dimensional computer graphic applications. First used by architects and designers, Silicon Graphics’ applications were deployed in the...
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- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
lower-cost venues of care more capable that health care becomes affordable, not by expecting large hospitals to charge less. Q: Could you give an example of a technological innovation that you think will have great impact? A: The advantages of View Details