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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
while the startup won’t have the same advantage over its competitors once it moves beyond cyber-insurance, Iram and Itskovich believe the company’s nimble, data-driven approach will continue to give it an edge. “We can still automate the... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
popcorn machine and dispensing soda, which makes Lopez's habit of hanging around AMC theaters a necessity. "I love, love, standing in a corner with a Diet Coke in my hand," he says. "If it's a well-run... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
(ranked choice voting, open primaries, legislative process reform). Very relevant this season. —Nathan Nemon (MBA 2020) The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
sequestered in subzero conditions. Next to the freezer sits a vacuum seal machine used to rid books and documents of bug infestations. The airless environment inside a sealed plastic bag asphyxiates the... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
handle account processing. "We're pooling the assets of small, low-income consumers and adapting 401(k) processing machinery to serve them. We're also working on regulatory clearance with the SEC, so in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
the Time & Life Building, she was given what were then state-of-the-art tools: an adding machine and an IBM Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
the region, collect specimens of flora and fauna for study, and record the voice of Tibet’s Grand Lama. Moore would then lead an ascent of Amnyi Machen, better known as Machin... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Photographed by Luciano Munhoz From her São Paulo office, Claudia Sender (MBA 2002) has a clear view of the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge, a spectacular 450-foot-tall structure of yellow steel cables laid over an X-shaped support tower that spans the Pinheiros River... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
of incoming samples from our brand partners (P&G, Unilever, Elizabeth Arden), that our field team keeps our machines running and fully stocked with sample inventory, and that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
metal-stamping machine is set up and the press is running, a single worker can operate two or three presses. “In fact,” says Chirchirillo, “our McHenry plant produces parts for a lower per-piece price than... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
obviously no PCs. And to see how it was actually changing the way that things were automating. Out of college, I worked for a company called the International Business Machines Corporation --some people know... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
radically challenging our sense of the exoticness and uniqueness of being human." She cited popular children's toys such as the Tamagatchi and Furby ("machines that say 'you have to take care of me'") View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) is seeing things. Standing at the edge of Beira Lake, an algae-choked body of water in the heart of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, he envisions people and restaurants—like New York’s South Street Seaport, he... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
Musk (AI has potential for great danger) or Mark Zuckerberg (the danger hype is overblown)? —Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) SESERI: We’re not worrying about the next five years and narrow AI here. We’re talking about the more distant future... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
sometimes people ask us, you know, what are you doing at the forefront of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the answer is not a whole lot. We're actually just... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
led the way in developing computers, atom smashers, medical devices, and new machines that desalinated brackish water. Doriot even backed George H.W. Bush’s first company, Zapata Off-Shore Company. “He was... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have cancer. Doctors ran tests View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
and Marco Iansiti (both HBS) will focus on the theory and practice of responsible AI for facilitating data-driven decision-making in organizations. They will explore how people use AI tools View Details