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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
When I started Zynga, I realized that our generation has the opportunity to build the digital skyscrapers that may be around for the next century. These are Internet treasures because we can’t remember life before these services or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
pension funds, to former and current Disney employees. Taking a page out of Howard Dean’s book, they used the Internet to reach supporters via a Web site, SaveDisney.com. Thousands of e-mails poured in. Beaulieu plans to teach the case... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
events are big hits; nontechnical volunteers can build and maintain a club Web site; and the low cost appeals to small clubs with limited resources. HBS signed a long-term agreement last fall with Harris Internet Services, a leading... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
Coop's brand name, while a core Coop management group retained control of Internet and catalogue sales, Coop membership, and interactions with local universities. A $4 million renovation of the Harvard Square flagship store that uncovered... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
me, scribbling this information down in her wire-bound notebook. Remarkably, in this Internet age, without the assistance of a hand courier or FedEx, the hospital would be unable to access my dad’s prior scans. After getting to know his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
introduction of Amazon Web Services in early 2006. This was the defining moment when the cost of starting consumer internet businesses really plummeted. That fact was very useful in rationalizing other things we saw happening: VC... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
new building for the ministry. It's important that people in Belgrade, as in other world capitals, have a sturdy, reassuring Ministry of Finance that they can see and have confidence in.” An Internet and IT specialist during his McKinsey... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
automation in the Postal Service, but also this true attention to detail. It’s a little bit ironic, but we are doing much more marketing right now through direct mail, which is a very effective recruitment tool for engaging small businesses. That’s in addition to the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet -- the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
A generous gift from Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) will establish a new chair at HBS and support teaching and learning in the field of information technology as it relates to the Internet and entrepreneurial studies at Harvard University.... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
heart attack and fell backwards. Both survived, but the event instigated a crisis in care. “My parents had come to help us with child care, and I found myself worrying about both child and senior care,” she says. “I was working at an View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story
the study of some 250 American dailies found that newspapers are forgoing nearly $300 million annually by failing to use the Internet to serve new advertisers. “Despite an intense commitment from the industry, most online newspapers are... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
IT WAS A CRITICAL demonstration that, if all went well, would likely land a big-time client for Gary Mueller, president and CEO of Internet Securities (www.securities.com), an online service designed to provide news and data about the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the principles of enterprise to education. "It was an extraordinary opportunity: They agreed to let a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur develop a course on education reform at the best business school in the world. That doesn't even make... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
A serial entrepreneur and innovator, Nicholas Grouf (MBA 1995) helped create the technology for online personalization, cowrote the first policies around Internet privacy, developed bundled low-cost computers and online access, launched... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
do. The Internet and social media make position in a hierarchy less important than the ability to attract followers. Facebook pages or Twitter feeds are followed for their content, and anyone can claim a domain name in her own name. As... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
Jersey, where the school system was on the verge of collapse. In 1993, the company put PCs, complete with e-mail and Internet access, on the desks of all 135 seventh-grade students in the Christopher Columbus Middle School - as well as in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
grown the concern into one of Brazil’s largest nonfood discount retailers with some 500 stores and a powerful Internet presence: Today, half of Lojas’s sales take place online. In 1993, Sicupira, Jorge Paulo Lemann, and Marcel Telles,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
partner at Andersen Consulting, and Paula A. Sneed (MBA 1977) of Kraft Foods. Ronald Goldsberry, a former auto industry executive and now a dot-com entrepreneur, described the rewards of joining a growing Internet company. "I was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Time Inc. as president of digital operations in 2016, the internet cheered. With stints at AOL and PopSugar, Wong was a respected veteran of the young digital media industry, and her hire signaled the... View Details
Keywords: April White