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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
company’s financials. Ballard also knew that Black men were nearly three times more likely to be denied a loan than white men, and that the figures weren’t much better for women, Latinos, or immigrants. So he challenged a group of data... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
that enabled programmers to more easily simulate other applications and to create new prototypes. Continuing to design software over the next several years, Bricklin addressed... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
was a role model for me. I decided back then that I wanted to do what he did, work in technology and build a business.” That desire led Mistele to the University of Michigan, where he earned an undergraduate degree in computer engineering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
to think that bitcoin can disrupt not only major companies like payment processors (more than $400 billion in market cap), remittances companies and financial software providers, but also other non... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
backed if he had chosen the software industry as a career.” Tanzi explained that, owing to recent advances in gene sequencing and data mining, he believed he could identify many more genes in a short time... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
annually soared from 62,000 to 177,000. Swamped with about 350,000 patent applications each year, examiners are overwhelmed and unable to devote enough time to check out the validity of each one. View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Too Cool for School
KHAN: Using software and videos to create an education revolution. Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle Salman Khan (MBA ’03) was working at a hedge fund in 2004 when he began tutoring his young cousin in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
stations, just do it all with software,” Alden explained. “Basically, software is replacing all this infrastructure.” As investors show interest, the 84-year-old Alden looks to the future and sees himself as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
long time. The professors were so good — I remember them all fondly, particularly Walter Salmon. He was such an effective communicator. It was very easy to understand what he was getting at and to draw your own conclusions View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean Kamen (7th OPM), chairman View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
someone from HBS before deciding to come here.” The personal touch doesn’t stop there. Dewey calls or e-mails every newly admitted MBA student. “It’s important to reach out to let them know we’re glad to have them and to answer any... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
test network software and hardware by injecting impairments like errors or delays into network traffic on fiber-optic or copper cable. If you are an equipment maker or network manager, you can use our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
to the traditional track and 8 to the social enterprise track. FBC Systems, the winning team for the traditional business track, provides software that enables engineers and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
CSG Systems International, a Denver software publisher. “I realized there that my understanding of economics, finance, and other business disciplines was limited,” Feagler notes, explaining his decision to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Pens Down
Illustration by Dan Page In May, on the eve of the HBS application season, MBA Admissions director Dee Leopold (MBA 1980) announced a change for Class of 2016 hopefuls. There would be only one essay question: In addition to your résumé,... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
each category—met in mid-April at the Rock Center to give one last 90-second pitch to the judges and audience. In each category, the Grand Prize winner took home $75,000; the Runner-up $25,000; and the Crowd... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
expertise in technology was helpful because I didn't have preconceived notions of how things should be done.” Lee transformed a struggling software sales company into a global provider of IT products and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
of all the others. After we built and implemented a software tool to make demand predictions and optimize prices, we ran a field experiment to test the impact of our tool View Details