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- 24 Apr 2014
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Student turns family health crisis into online solution
When Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014) and her family tried to navigate the world of health care in the US to help Hoffman’s father with his medical issues, the electrical systems engineer looked at the problem from a distinct perspective. “No... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Like Shampoo for Job Seekers: The Proven Personal Branding System to Help You Succeed in any Interview and Secure the Job of Your Dreams by Brenda Bence (MBA ’91) (Global Insight Communications) Strategic Customer Service: Managing the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
quickly. This series will take you inside the world of carbon capture, guided by innovators and experts at the forefront of the movement who will help you understand what is possible. Can we really engineer a climate fix? But first, we're... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
engaging with this prospect cohort the same way that we think about engaging with our customers. There is also some interesting work happening in process improvement for recruitment. That includes innovations aimed at scheduling, which is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
do things better on the other side. In our sector, particularly on the early childcare side, the crisis is showing how essential those programs are—not only for child development, but also for families to be able to work. I can envision reinventing childcare and having... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
ever-expanding, ever-wealthier, more peaceful world economy. An international system needs to be nurtured. We can’t take it for granted—that is one thing we’ve learned. Again. View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to bolster a stressed primary care... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1800s, where we saw the roots of the venture capital industry. Then, of course, we found ourselves in Silicon Valley, where so many of the brands that shape our daily life got their start in humble garages. Silicon Valley has been the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
investments in architectural design can facilitate a more flexible innovation process. They observed successful firms creating a modular system that could accommodate the addition of new components without... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
morning on October 12, 2020, a home security system captured a moment that would go viral on social media. [knocking] Bob Wilson: Paul? JH: Bob Wilson and his wife Mary had walked across the street to his colleague Paul Milgrom’s house to... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
opportunity to invest in preventative care, earlier diagnosis, and a support system closer to the onset of illness.” The data also reveals that, despite such apparent needs, mental health philanthropy is rarely prioritized; most large... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
knowledge into action and, at the same time, be aware of their own character and values. In short, the School’s vision for 21st-century leadership requires a commitment to three dimensions of learning: knowing, doing, and being (see sidebar next page). View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
The result of that abiding interest is his new book, Innovation and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press), which he cowrote with Professor Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University. Why do we need a patent View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
different items such as customized and computerized wheelchairs, beds and bedside equipment, ambulatory aids, respiratory devices for patients with sleep disorders, and a revolutionary new system that enables emphysema patients and others... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
is one of the keys to fixing the system is having technologists want to work in government and having government have the ability to hire those technologists, and it becomes either a virtuous cycle or an unvirtuous cycle where once you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
productivity. Professor Lerner and his coauthor show how legal changes initiated in the 1980s converted the system from a stimulator of innovation to a creator of litigation and uncertainty that threatens... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
the September 23 summit, “New Directions in Non-profit Leadership,” to give the city’s nonprofit leaders an opportunity to hear innovative thinking and best practices from a trio of HBS professors and nearly fifty practitioners. Sessions... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based cognitive-computing View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
structures and systems as well as reconciling the varying speeds at which divisions within a company may develop. Merson explores these different aspects of growth and outlines strategies and tactics to enable businesses to move forward... View Details