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- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
to search, he firmly believes that the more search technology is improved, the faster researchers can find cures for diseases and a host of other societal problems. In brief, search can change the world—and for the better. Born in Paris,... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967) Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967) Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967) has always been curious about technology and how things worked. However, while earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at MIT, he realized he... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
LAB The rapid advancement of the crypto sector has sometimes been compared to the early days of the internet. As the internet sprints toward a Web3 future (Web 3.0, the next iteration of the World Wide Web) that will enable users to actively participate in and reap the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
ATTRACTING INVESTORS like moths to a flame is Firefly Network, Inc. (www.firefly.com), a privately held firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that strives to make the Internet more consumer-friendly. Firefly CEO and co-founder Nicholas Grouf explains that the company's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Cyberposium 16
The company wasn’t running on fumes, the fumes were gone,” said Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (MBA ’85), describing his first desperate days at the firm that has now become a wildly successful online personalized radio service with 65 million... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
turned into Brika.com, an online marketplace featuring everything from handmade tea towels and dishes to tote bags and "Mr. T" onesies for baby. Brika, which takes its name from the Spanish word for factory, fabricá (they just loved the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
When considering how to enter the digital learning arena, HBS did what any startup would do. It began in 2012 by identifying a challenge: How to merge the unique elements of the HBS learning experience with the latest technology to create... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
Atlantic Philanthropies, who is among the world’s most generous philanthropists. The experience left Feerick asking, “What if I gave the best years of my life to building something with enormous social impact?” Feerick has answered that question with Alison, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
angel investor, and a senior advisor at Republic, an online investment platform, Aditya certainly had the necessary expertise to identify and foster promising founders. But she had to wonder, “Why me? Why now?” She recalls asking a... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000) in the New York office of Tinker Tailor, her new online couture business. When HBS first turned a scholarly eye to retail in the early 20th century, department stores were king. Institutions like Filene’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
“We want to be the Sam Adams of the auto world.” Rogers launched his Massachusetts-based company, Local Motors, with $4 million in start-up capital; its online contest (LocalMotors.com/competition.php) invites the public in various cities... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
custom-built satellites and a proprietary analytics platform to gather and analyze satellite images for commercial customers. Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew Minnick credits several technological advances with putting... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
more quickly from in-person services to virtual. Call center workers, for example, had access to the Kyruus scheduling function online so that, Gardner says, “Overnight, they switched from working with 400 others in a large building to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
Professor Lynda Applegate’s Building E-Businesses course does more than just translate standard case material into an online format. She uses audio and video clips for storytelling, then offers eye-catching visuals and drill-down... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- News
Stopgap Schooling
As Salman Khan (MBA 2003) tracked the spread of the COVID-19 virus and news that schools were shuttering, he knew that the nonprofit Khan Academy was uniquely positioned to help the many families whose children would suddenly be missing school. Forbes reports that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
at 40 percent), proactively publicize the School's Web site and add new features that will attract more alumni to the site, and develop push technology allowing alumni to subscribe to specific online... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
time, and allow demand to follow supply. Are global R&D budgets being allocated efficiently to the most promising technologies to prepare for the next era—or to those technologies in which our industrial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
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Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
Don’t let the fact that first-year MBA students immerse themselves in the beer industry fool you—they are learning about product development by participating in an online simulation. In fact, the use and complexity of simulations in the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation