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- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
FitSkin, Inc., a smart device that is creating “the Google for skincare” with tools that help users measure skin conditions. According to Senem Yaman (MBA 2013), the Northeastern US/New York HBS Alumni New Venture Competition Chair, cash... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
purchased by Google for $3.2 billion in 2014. Nolan and Natarajan “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan, director of FirstBuild—the GE/Local Motors partnership—are sitting with Rogers in the University of Louisville’s University Club in late April,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
of trying to go for those home runs all the time and the next Google or the next Facebook, you know, you can certainly make great returns when you go for singles and doubles. And we've seen that by having a diverse group of people, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
Data-driven hiring practices have taken off. As early as 2010, Google was using talent analytics to help hire the right people. Research supports this strategy; in studies, algorithms outperformed humans in hiring decisions by at least 25... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and investment in green technologies.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
joke among CMOs: Where’s the best place to bury a body? Answer: The second page of Amazon or Google results. Nobody goes there.) It’s also a high-maintenance approach for a small venture because it requires ongoing knowledge of the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002) worked at Google for more than 11 years, and she would usually take the bus to get there. And every day, on her walk to the bus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
struggled to determine if they were getting good deals,” Baron says. “They had to take their dealer’s word for it.” Years later, after spells at Google and HBS, Baron is now using modern tools—from cloud computing to machine-learning—to... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
cases and then making it very intuitive and simple, like the original Google home page. I think a lot of the innovation today is around trying to understand the core consumer-use cases and the needs that crypto technology can really... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
censorship on the rise, most young people in China today have no awareness of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The government can kick Google out of China, but all bets are off when Chinese students return from travel outside the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on newspapers in 1988 when I saw threats to classifieds. That only got... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
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The Business of Access
with the conference, Lisle says, but also financially supported it and provided speakers. Lisle witnessed the connections that began to form as a result. “The Google staffer knows of the Netflix staffer who is working on accessibility,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
outcome for the child. "SynapDx is doing very well and completing a large clinical study thanks to a $15 million investment from Google Ventures," says Anquetil, who retains an ownership stake in the company but is no longer involved in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
getting done or sharing information related to work, one model has been to codify everything. I’ll give you the example of GitLab. They have something called the “one handbook" policy. What that means is that they write down everything so there’s no uncertainty. It’s... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called Project Loon, headed by... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life
devices were large enough to be notable—and, basically, it just became one more thing to remember. It just wasn't worth the mental trouble to have that. And part of it is because I was pretty good about, if I went for a run, I generally knew the path I was taking and... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
you think about what happiness is? Neil Pasricha: You know, happiness is a really big, gigantic word. It is-- it's funny, if you go to Google and you type in "how to be" the first dropdown in the suggestions is "happy." People are typing... View Details