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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
serve recovering cardiac patients and other individuals who may have potential heart problems. Reis, a medical doctor and former emergency-room physician from Israel, explained that a similar service has operated in Israel for some ten... View Details
- Profile
Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
leadership training with G.E. — a high-level program that took her to Istanbul, London, and Paris — Tuce experienced a significant shift in scale when her FIELD 2 assignment took her team to Chennai, India, where they advised a fruit-juice stand View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
as CEO and president of Palm Computing and a decade as a marketing and logistics executive at Apple and its spin-off Claris, Dubinsky cofounded Handspring. As the company’s CEO, she oversees development, production, and marketing of the Visor, a popular PDA that is... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
Valley. At the same time, Worldreader is busy raising money and working with publishers to expand the list of titles that can be downloaded via Africa’s cell phone network. As the organization scales up, Risher says he is relying heavily... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Although Stiftung Solarenergie donated the first lanterns, Ayala, who identifies himself as a “social businessman,” said the plan is to tie the new power source to self-sustaining community development initiatives. “Even simple products such as portable lanterns with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
chaos, damage to customer relations, and harm to the brand that swirl around any product recall. Nope. By five o’clock that afternoon, the SmartPak customers who had purchased the batch of the product in question had received either a View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
enterprise teams advanced to the final round. From there, four traditional track and two social enterprise teams made the cut. Traditional track winner FishLogic plans to produce programmable signal processing chips that would eventually be used in everything from cell... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone call to the king. Some... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
phone connected to a power cord that’s not plugged into a socket. “We were all feeling it,” says Christina Carbonell (MBA 2000). She and Galyn Bernard (MBA 2006), both founders and CEOs, were concerned for the team’s mental health and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
millions of people had been driven from their homes. To assist with the country’s efforts at rebuilding, DeFehr developed a crop-diversification strategy. He spent two years establishing the project, which is still in operation today.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
work-related benefits in the process. Are we literally taking our phones to bed with us? In a survey we did of 1,600 managers and professionals in various organizations across the globe, 26 percent admitted to sleeping with their... View Details
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
idea,’” Tseng recalls his older brother, Ryan, telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
operators in the United States were only able to glean a general estimate of location from mobile calls, thus hampering response times. Now, thanks to technology developed by RapidSOS, calls received from most Android View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
and then we were watching the real-time Google Analytics graph. It’s really interesting to see what the active users on the site looked like based on what was happening on the show. And when they cut to commercial—when we were just thinking about the offer—right then,... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
money” is not always a convincing pitch for cities. “The reality is, 80 percent of a city’s operating budget is people,” says Weiss. “When you say, ‘save money,’ what they hear is ‘lay off people.’ That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done... View Details
- 11 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense industry with high... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
Congress and the streets getting fixed." “The sweet spot is where you are working hard, but also getting things done” In a new paper, Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services, Norton worked... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
chairman of the Tata Group, a $22 billion conglomerate with 93 companies operating in areas as diverse as IT and communications, steel, financial services, hotels, and consumer goods ranging from tea to china to automobiles. “There was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
phone clean. I tried using hand sanitizer on my iPhone, which completely ruined the speaker—which was upsetting at the time but also helped inspire a better solution. “At HBS, I met Jillian Ressler (MBA 2015), who worked as a first-grade... View Details