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- 01 Apr 1998
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Sparking Internet Commerce
considered the pacesetter by many online businesses. Grouf understood early on that to entice users to provide personal data, it would be both necessary and proper to offer something useful in return. With BigNote, for example, Firefly's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
Above: Hulme on the rooftop of Google’s London offices (photo by Jon Enoch) What the design-thinking approach at IDEO taught me is that perfection is the enemy of progress. Great entrepreneurs realize that any business is a series of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
Malaysia’s Petronas Towers may be among the tallest structures in the world, but the man chiefly responsible for building them prefers to keep a low profile. Describing Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (MBA ’64) as an individual who “guards his View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
best-selling software package, while watching his wife do their finances by hand twenty years ago. "Computers — especially the ones we were working with in 1982 — are crummy at a lot of things, but they happen to be very good at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
aesthetics." 2. TARGET THE TASTEMAKERS To reach the cool kids, Camargo and Cadillac partnered with IvyConnect, a members-only social network founded by Philipp Triebel and Beri Meric (both MBA 2010). "Using the power of social influence... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
decisions made by algorithms have a critical impact on the lives of individuals, who also have a legal or moral right to privacy. They will explore as well the connections between privacy and other areas of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
hookup, but that number is expected to double this year and reach 16.6 million within five years. "The creative side, which is what matters in the advertising business, can't be fully explored until the technology has improved," says Silk. Judging View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
When he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1990 with a degree in aerospace engineering, Eric Feagler (MBA 2001) had already been accepted by the Navy’s elite flight training program. After a brief postgraduation return to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
the founding CEO of Palm and the cofounder of Handspring, ushering in two of the tech ages biggest leaps—handheld computing, and the smart phone. So, she's essentially been famously successful by being right about the future. We sat down... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) American businesses can’t afford to ignore the reality: The nature of work is changing. If companies hope to hire and hold on to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
that they were never in the direct presence of anyone who disagrees with them. Aides, flatterers, bodyguards, or censors could buffer them against the unpleasant or absorb attacks by proxy. But in the digital age, criticism and challenge... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
difficult: Google is the clear leader, at least in the English-speaking world, and being second just isn’t that interesting. This is not to say there couldn’t still be a decent business. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that emphasizes View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
that this anarchy will remain," said Spar. That is, until the revolution moves to the next phase, when rules are demanded. The demands may stem from social concerns, as is now the case with privacy issues on the Internet, or, more... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
a lot of stuff over the two decades that passed, as we were trying to understand this better. But one of the things we realized, is that God doesn't create data in heaven, and then give it as a gift to mankind. Every piece of data was created View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
eight CEOs (some of whom you won’t have heard of) who built unbelievably successful organizations. Well-researched by HBSMBAs and eminently readable. The author is not a big fan of corporate overhead.” —Professor Warren McFarlan, on The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Net Positive
At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and basketball, it hasn’t had an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
’03), who is now CEO of FBC, and faculty advisor HBS associate professor Stefan H. Thomke. Photos by Catherine Walsh/HBS Communications Now in its seventh year, the HBS Business Plan Contest is designed to... View Details