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- 01 Jun 2014
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Innovation: An Orchestra of One
technology that would adapt to my playing style in real time instead of forcing me to fit a recording." Chao was right. She found former concert oboist Christopher Raphael, now chair of computer science at Indiana University, who was using predictive modeling to code... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
university campuses, or amusement parks. “Forget the guideways, forget the stations, just do it all with software,” Alden explained. “Basically, software is replacing all this infrastructure.’ As investors show interest, the 84-year-old... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
say, Are you a treatment provider? Are you a medical device? Are you a drug? Are you a software vendor?” The latter seemed like the right answer until Gastfriend realized that software is counted against a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
field-based cases, notes, and software models have been created for Entrepreneurial Finance. "I started the course to shed light on how individuals and teams identify opportunities, how they marshall the required resources, including... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Start Me Up
development." Too much financial engineering. Not enough enterprise and value creation. For Akhil Nigam (MBA 2007), that was a big takeaway from the 2008 economic collapse. It got the former software entrepreneur to thinking... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
similar opportunity. Best to have an intense focus and evolve your software in a rapid fashion. It is very common for software companies to start with smaller customers and work their way up. While it is... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.” His frustration led to the 1999... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Hindu/Muslim conflict. Designed for each computer to be shared by two to three students, the children work with each other with minimal direction from a facilitator. “The stories that have come back are incredible,” Mendhro says. “One of the Hindu children told us his... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
military, and consulting settings, Huckman has backed intuition with hard data. In a software services firm, for example, he found that when familiarity increased by 50 percent, defects decreased by 19 percent and deviations from budget... View Details
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which builds open-source View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
orders. Kiva’s distribution center automation technology simplifies operations and reduces costs while increasing flexibility. When orders are received, hundreds of autonomous mobile robots are directed by a complex software application... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
In a few years there will be no such thing as an e-business," says Vivek Y.Ranadivé (MBA 1983). As founder, chairman, and CEO of Palo Alto-based TIBCO Software, Inc., (www.tibco.com) it would seem that Ranadivé is predicting the demise of his own company. Among other... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
lot of time exploring the universe on my computer, and am familiar with the best software and its applications. The story retrieval application in Stories (alumni.hbs.edu/stories) is automation at its best! I know that—in managing this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Feb 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
themselves, and develop a communal approach to software platforms to support office operations. In addition, the committee will conduct a survey of clubs to improve its understanding of their successes and challenges. The ultimate goal of... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
where he ran a job-finding software business from his dorm room, Mistele went to work for Microsoft. Over the next nine years there, he helped to launch four businesses, the last of which focused on automotive telematics, which is known... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Faculty Q&A LAKHANI: Crowdsourcing isn't just for software anymore—everyone from carmakers to biotechs are using it to solve seemingly intractable problems. Crowdsourcing—it's a relatively new word for the centuries-old approach of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
introduced him to Clara Health, a startup specializing in making that connection for all disease types. Within two weeks the team had published a website using Clara’s software (gratis) to match those conducting clinical trials with... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Street Investment Management, Inc. Tiampo, a Massachusetts native, is a member of the boards of Reality Quest Inc., in Longmont, Colorado, and of PlusFactor Software Inc., in Portland, Oregon. He is a cum laude graduate of Tufts... View Details