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- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
outlook for the next fifty years, I would say it's sensational. How would you rate your personal computing skills? I've kept up pretty well, by necessity. You can't get a stock quote today without being able to use a computer. Our ability... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
Nuclear, which was bought by DuPont in 1972. The success of that, he said in an interview with the Computer History Museum, “made me think that the venture business was easy.” By all accounts, Crisp made it look easy. He worked closely... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
pieces, including the blueprint, the Constitution, to another country you don’t get a working democracy.” Eleanor Cannon’s sunny, spacious classroom at St. John’s School in Houston is well appointed, with bright white dry-erase boards covering two walls and a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Taylor Callery Scroll the main story to read all alumni submissions or jump to a specific case here: “Suzuki Samurai” Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) “Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy” Steven Newman (MBA 1992) “Heublein,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
three-piece suit kind of guy, and I wasn't. I preferred Boston to New York. And I didn't like working with computers then any more than I do now. Despite the good money, it wasn't the right fit." Instead, O'Donnell remained at HBS as... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
Purchases Software House 1993 Appointed Board of Trustees, Amherst College; first female president, Society of the Alumni 2011 SHI International opens new headquarters and cloud computing data center 2012 SHI International ranks 104 in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
fun in what I do is the best part of my work," says Jakurski, clearly in his element at his central Rio office surrounded by computer terminals. While Jakurski loves his profession, his interests reach far beyond the world of finance. A... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1943 Born, Chicago, Illinois 1965 Earns AB, History and Literature, Radcliffe College 1966 Joins PHI as Technical Editor 1968 Joins Cambridge Computer Associates as Technical Writer... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Competing in the Age of AI
Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
graduated from HBS and was finishing a three-and-a-half-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, in charge of a select group that used early models of giant IBM computers to manage inventory for the Navy's airplanes. About... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
England, and Germany by examining the 200 largest corporations in those countries. In 2001, Chandler wrote Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries, which focused on the fall of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean feat in 1962," Fisher recalls.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
Illustration by PJ Loughron Illustration by PJ Loughron How has your experience as Dean of the School differed from your experience as a member of the faculty? Being on campus and engaging with faculty, staff, and students is something I have done for many years, and... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
reachable only through disruptive computer calculation and inaccessible to engineers' "creativity". Thomas Baudin, MBA 1997, CEO & Founder Region: Europe Globalcare The firm’s mission is to advance international healthcare mobility. It is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A History of Women at HBS
SIGN ME UP: Registration at Baker Library in 1960 BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS The presence of female students on the HBS campus is no longer a novelty, but a new Centennial year exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center reveals a time in history when the... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
performance. Putting in $300,000 for 60 percent of the equity, Dunn helped launch Prime Computer in 1972 and served as its chairman for the next seventeen years. With his hands-on help, Prime became an early high-tech success story, and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense
design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
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Championing the HBS Fund
solutions. “Growing up in Greece in the 1980s, there were not many career opportunities,” says Stavropoulos, who appreciated the liberal arts education that Harvard offered. Although he enjoyed literature and writing, he pursued computer... View Details