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- 01 Dec 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
their cue from alumni feedback, the organizers have assembled a first-rate roster of HBS faculty members who will present their latest research in one of four timely areas: Managing Innovation, the Information Technology Revolution,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Crowdfunding capital for small business
James ("Brad") McGee (MBA 1987) cofounded iCrowd to bring entrepreneurs together in online communities to network and to help provide the financial and commercial resources businesses need to thrive. He launched the crowdfunding website...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2010
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Hunting Red Balloons
In December, the government agency DARPA tethered to the ground ten red weather balloons at random locations around the United States in a test to see how social networks might mobilize and use the Internet for rapid problem-solving. In...
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- 05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
visibility, to a network of peers. Many of them felt isolated.” Amadio sensed these challenges were not unique to neuroscience startups, and he began looking at the consumer software sector to see how innovation there seemed to happen so...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
former professors if they’d heard of a new technology that could be the basis of a start-up. Faculty member Jeff Rayport threw out a few ideas before Wilcox got specific: He was looking for something that would change the world. So in...
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- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
cyber capabilities in that network. It’s very hard to understand a network these days. This was hard to understand 10 years ago, when the company was founded. But it’s eminently more complicated today because we have wires, we have WiFi,...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Collaborative Cures
long. Enter the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, which identifies early-stage, highly promising technologies developed by Harvard faculty, and then helps those selected navigate the early stages of development so that they can go to...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
2f1f4a24430fe040f37c6d7564258142 Viewers love The Weather Channel, giving its president and CEO, Bill Burke (MBA ’92), an enviable edge over many of his counterparts in the notoriously fickle business of cable network programming. On...
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- 19 Mar 2019
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Mission Critical
Whaley has taken a new role as CEO of Donor Network West, the organ procurement organization that serves Northern California and parts of Nevada. (Published March 2019)
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2006
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Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
and cutting death rates. Brailer’s challenge is to create electronic recordkeeping standards for the medical profession and to fund construction of the computer network necessary to store and share patient data. Said Brailer: “Health-care...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Change Channel
Brian Graden (MBA ’89) is president of MTV Networks and of Logo, the new gay-oriented cable channel launched in June. Logo features mostly movies but also documentaries, sports, travel shows, original sitcoms, concerts, and more. “When...
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Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
that is forecasted to grow to almost $39 billion in the next five years. Shortly after Liang joined SmartThings, Samsung purchased the two-year-old company for a rumored $200 million. SmartThings sells a hardware hub to network your...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources
spots around the world. Networking: Click on Alumni Network and find contact information for over 100 HBS clubs and associations, including industry-specific alumni groups with global memberships. Also find information on spring and fall...
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- 01 Sep 2022
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Bosses Say Remote Work Kills Culture. These Companies Disagree.
- 01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
of business and society is changing not only how we work and live, but also how we tackle the toughest issues. Lakhani oversees the Crowd Innovation Lab, a Harvard University initiative focused on crowdsourcing. He conducts field experiments using online View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go
For all their variety, restaurants have two things in common: a kitchen where food is prepared and a dining area where customers consume it. But what if you could use technology to ditch the dining area and just keep the kitchen, trimming...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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RallyPoint a Winner
In military parlance, a rally point is where soldiers scattered on a mission are to meet up. So when Iraq veterans Yinon Weiss (MBA 2011) and Aaron Kletzing (HBS 2013) launched a start-up to help veterans network and land civilian jobs,...
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- 01 Aug 2013
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A Cure for Cold Storage
$100,000 in seed funding. "We wouldn't exist without that start-up money," says Schrader, who notes that Vaxess has also relied on the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) for meeting space as well as a network of HBS professors to guide them...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Faculty Research Online
of Social Networks Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks like Facebook. Associate Professor Mikolaj Piskorski provides a fresh look at the...
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