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- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
looks at how the company built a digital organization that leverages AI and other technologies to speed its operations, manage its processes, and ensure quality across research, testing, and manufacturing in its race to develop a vaccine... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Agri-Food Entrepreneurs. We are currently supporting entrepreneurs in 34 African countries to scale their businesses. Changing narratives and driving transformation is a complex process. However, I am most inspired by the young African... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
transparent and accountable. Our theory of change is time-proven: One, education matters to your opportunities in life. Two, early education is determinative. Three, media and technology can deliver education at View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s managed to scale... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
Valley. At the same time, Worldreader is busy raising money and working with publishers to expand the list of titles that can be downloaded via Africa’s cell phone network. As the organization scales up, Risher says he is relying heavily... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
approximately $0.06–$0.08 for conventional coal plants and $0.16 (est.) for coal plants that capture and store CO2. Moreover, renewable technologies offer the ability to produce affordable power. Most promising is concentrating solar... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
making sure our existing customers still win and that we can still grow in that market,” says Pemberton. Should LS stick with the formula that’s been working, or should they make the leap to enterprise sales and commit to the scaling it... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
The future of retail won’t be brick and mortar or online, says Musab Balbale (MBA 2007). Instead, it will be a more inclusive combination of the two. Balbale, who spent several years of his career focused exclusively on online sales, is testing that theory at View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
online travel guide business, he joined the Internet search giant as director of product management. He was the driving force behind the February 2011 launch of Social Search, which incorporates content shared or created on social media sites into Google search... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Publishing) With Murder You Get Sushi: A Miss Information Technology Mystery by Diane Davidson (MBA 1980) and Mary Ann Davidson, collaborating as Maddi Davidson (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Destiny’s Child: Memoirs of a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Administration. “The traditional model has been turned upside down. Having the data to innovate at scale is now the main thing.” Lakhani and Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, are frequent... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
environmental value simultaneously through its activities," Keshavjee explains. "It is now embarking on a massive investment with equity partners and scaling up its activities." HCA, in partnership with a number of local NGOs and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Bay area’s coastal location made Silicon Valley a natural hub for Naval and other government activity and funding. This helped foster several eras of technological development, beginning in the early 20th century with radio components and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
to encourage the development of new technologies that focus on clean, renewable, or efficient energy resources. One of our teams developed last year’s winning idea: a polymer-producing bacteria that eats away at microbial View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
world’s fastest-growing free market democracy” read posters and banners all around the Swiss resort, while Indian success stories such as Infosys Technologies were the talk of movers and shakers at swank soirees. The spotlight continued... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
In Bolivia, ACCION linked the microfinance field to capital markets through the founding of BancoSol, a microfinance institution that became the nation’s most profitable bank. “Poverty can only be truly addressed if you meet four conditions,” Chu explains. “You must... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
analogy of cyberdefense as a castle—a favorite of his—he tends to the moats, the walls, and the gates. Get past those, and he deploys the dogs. And he’s watched many people scale walls, break gates, evade dogs, and leave with your AmEx... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
reach wealthy and technologically savvy consumers fed up with gridlock and delay. At the heart of each business: a vision to change how Jakartans navigate the city’s congestion and transform their relationship with this sprawling... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
technology for creating podcasts, videos, and webinars. During the pandemic, podcasts are being recorded remotely. Popular Episodes Walmart’s Strategy to Beat Amazon; and Millennial Socialism Three professors discuss how Walmart is trying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
environmental quality and economic competitiveness.” Photo courtesy John Macomber Cleaner energy sources (such as wind, solar, and hydroelectric) can of course reduce the carbon emissions of cities, as will laws, incentives, and less demand. But in the near term,... View Details