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- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a speed-dating company when his...
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April White
- 01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo
In Dot Vertigo: Doing Business in a Permeable World, HBS professor Richard Nolan shows how the next shift in Internet technology - the I-Net - is helping both bricks-and-mortar and first-generation Web companies stave off the competition...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
history. For two days in late May, representatives from the School’s extensive network of alumni clubs convened on campus to exchange ideas, participate in case discussions with faculty, and learn about AlumniMagnet, a new...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
Faculty Q&A LAKHANI: Crowdsourcing isn't just for software anymore—everyone from carmakers to biotechs are using it to solve seemingly intractable problems. Crowdsourcing—it's a relatively new word for the centuries-old approach of opening a challenge to outside...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
leader in technology,” he says. “Somehow, over the years, we had become the nation’s technology broker to outside companies.” The 2011 shuttering of the shuttle program—and its $600 million per launch costs—left them without a...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2010
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Health IT at the Bedside
Jain (MBA '07) Courtesy Sachin Jain As a physician, I’m a great believer in health IT. So I’m always confused by how slowly and unevenly it has been adopted in medicine, a field where new technologies and techniques are often embraced...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test
Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) 2020 was the year everybody learned what a supply chain is. The first lesson came in the form of a toilet paper shortage in the earliest days of the pandemic. The most important lesson came nine months later...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé
stint at Ford Motor Company and with the network equipment provider Linkabit, he decided to enroll at HBS. "I wanted to get the best education, and I felt that Harvard was the best business school," Ranadivé states, citing the case method...
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- 18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
and mobile technology in particular, has the potential to be a tremendous tool for empowerment. There are now two billion people across the world with Internet access through handheld touchscreen devices. Cheaper handsets are allowing...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Going For The Summit
to make high-stakes decisions that affect a lot of people, and you have to act quickly or you're in trouble," Carpenter explains. "Managing an Internet firm is just like that." Despite the challenge, under Carpenter's expert guidance, her company, iVillage -a View Details
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Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2004
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
outreach of clubs and associations. One key recommendation involves deployment of new technology to improve club communications, including the ability to broadcast e-mail and share member data. The Alumni Career Services Committee is...
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- 10 Apr 2019
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Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it...
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- 19 Sep 2019
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Predicting Human Behaviors
Above: Sid Misra (MBA 2013) cofounder, Perceptive Automata (Len Rubenstein; courtesy of Perceptive Automata) Amid the hubbub of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology tradeshow, Sid Misra (MBA 2013)...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2017
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Flight Path
hour isn’t easy,” he says. “The technology has to be invisible to the viewer. It’s really the case here that you don’t get a second chance at a first impression.” London’s Alexandra Palace, site of the 2017 Allianz World Championship of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
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Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners will attract more hosts, and vice versa—and...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Rediscovering America
way to make the world a better place. For instance, its World Community Grid project came about when IBM had a breakthrough in grid computing, which involves tying many computers together to boost computing power. The company took that View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
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Building an Online Swap Shop
the holidays. He also recalled how the idea for thredUP came to him at HBS. “The original concept for how to deal with two-sided marketplaces, which is what thredUP is, came from HBS associate professor Andrei Hagiu’s Strategy & View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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Understanding the Digital Frontier
ripples across cyberspace that your company’s baby formula turns tiny tots green. Is there anything you can do? Absolutely. Turn the tide to your advantage, argue Charlene Li (MBA ’93) and Josh Bernoff in their new book, Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
receiving a Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship from HBS in 2021, DeBere received one in 2020, which enabled him to serve as a research intern for OpenUp, a civic technology company based in South Africa that shares Afya Pamoja’s vision...
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