Couriers and Messengers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

adds, "was to catch up with my classmates and share once again the spirit of our Section C." William G. Messenger (MBA '88) Drawn to a religious life as an Episcopal minister after launching a successful... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

which was facing numerous challenges: a rapidly decreasing market share, falling revenues, and cratering investor faith. Heins went about cutting costs—including the layoff of more than 5,000 workers in May 2012—scrapped plans to make the... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself

messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics. The data that Bancel saw that evening were shocking. The numbers suggested Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat diseases—one that promised to change the medical world, resulting in cures for... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Scientific Research and Development Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

07 Jun 2011
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Alumni News: Back to the Future

http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/alumni-news/story-alden.html View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services

25 Apr 2014
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A revolution in healing

Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) is president and CEO of Moderna Therapeutics, which is producing a new drug application that could revolutionize the biotech world. It hinges on messenger RNA, or mRNA, the... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

04 Sep 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Status Update

on KLM airline’s use of the Facebook Messenger platform for customer care, says Levine, and Walmart’s employee training program, which features Oculus Go’s virtual reality headsets. No stranger to the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

customers amid an explosion of online retail options. Grab users can also courier parcels or order food delivery through its app. Go-Jek’s app does those things too, and also lets users order concert tickets... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

“If I look back at my career, I’ve focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer.” That is the wry encapsulation Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) uses to describe her professional activities. Like Fisher herself, it is smart, efficient, View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

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