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even greater responsibility as an executive committee member for the Atlanta office. Adams later held senior executive roles at First Data Corporation, where he oversaw 11,000 employees in the United States, the United Kingdom, and... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
– Less Info This article explores the impact of social media and smartphones on youth, highlighting parental concerns about increasing anxiety and depression. Data shows high engagement rates among children and adolescents: 90% of infants... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
bit of attention; 96 people submitted 410 programs, and 20 of the contestants had ideas that exceeded researchers’ expectations. The best solution increased the accuracy of the data from 91 percent to 97 percent and increased processing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
in the midst of a digital revolution, Sandy Carter (MBA 1989) told attendees of the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association’s annual conference during the November gathering in Cambridge. Carter, IBM’s general manager for ecosystem development and social business, moderated... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
research presentations illustrated how business, science, and technology are addressing societal challenges: SEAS professor Yiling Chen discussed the design of social computing systems, HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani explained the use of crowdsourcing for genomic View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
the question driving the panel discussion "Monetization in a Mobile World." Panelists included Janet Balis (HBS MBA '99), partner and chief revenue officer at Betaworks; Glen Otis Brown, a senior director for Twitter's Twitter Amplify... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
recent tax credits, loans, and grants passed in Washington will drive innovation, accelerate the transition, and demonstrate the U.S. commitment to a managed transition to a low/no carbon economy. Following the morning keynotes, attendees were given the opportunity to... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Summit Explores the New Economy
Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative recently gathered students, scholars, and leaders from practice at the 2015 Digital Initiative Summit to "explore the digital transformation of the economy" and help them meet 21st century management challenges. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
work. “There is some visceral discomfort with simply giving poor people money,” says Faye, now chairman of the board. “But the evidence, overwhelmingly, is that cash is one of the most effective ways of alleviating poverty.” In its reliance on View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston
networking series featured a panel of leaders in climate tech, including Mitchell Goldstein (CFO at Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Pasi Miettinen (CEO at Sagewell Inc.), and Emily Stoler (Principal Scientist, Sustainable Materials at the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
largest consumer research panel in the Middle East, and helped Yahoo!'s portal reach nearly 17 million unique users. In 2014, Yahoo! shuttered its Middle East portal, and Amira joined Facebook where she worked closely with both SMBs and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?
music that consumers encounter? Those questions were debated at the "Digital Music: Recreating the Industry" panel on March 30 the at the Digital Initiative Summit at Harvard Business School. "It's interesting to think about the source of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
debated at a panel discussion called "Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends," moderated by Harvard Business School professor Lynda Applegate. The "strike zone" for his firm is network infrastructure,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
recruit a more representative panel patients might trust more that they would benefit from the innovation.” Doctors with Black patients are “considerably less willing” to prescribe the drugs if they’re approved based on trials that don’t... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
world on which they ultimately depend,” said HBS professor Forest Reinhardt (MBA 1987), who moderated a panel focused on the impact of climate change as part of two panels at the event titled “Confronting... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
choke points are a serious problem,” he says, noting that upgrades could take up to 10 years. Data centers could sidestep the issue by dramatically reducing their reliance on the grid, Nussey says, imagining, for instance, a rural... View Details
- 06 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club
alumni panels Access to the Search Fund Investor platform and the Club's library of resources (including access to leading data platforms) Summer internship opportunities with current searchers and small... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
industry in which the need for a responsive development process has never been greater. The researchers analyzed data from 29 completed projects and identified the characteristics most associated with the best outcomes. (See "Four... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley