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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Internet, and corporations are now buying their entire travel budget through specialized applications we deliver over the Internet." Technology has also changed the decision-making process for airline employees, giving them "the ability to take vast quantities of View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. “The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented,” Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a “thank-you” to the participants for their generous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Photos by Webb Chappell At first glance, the MBA Class of 2006 is an interesting collection of data points: 897 students from 67 countries, 34 percent women, 32 percent international, and 21 percent minorities. But look again, deeper this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
providers should support equal access to all content and applications (such as data-heavy files of online video) regardless of the source or how much bandwidth it requires. Instead, industry executives contend, consumers should pay depending on how much View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
most people had the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Today, his 22-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that are available to large and small industry participants... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
HBS benefactor Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) and then HBS Dean Jay Light. In a single year, while leading the HBS capital campaign, Stevenson made 277 one-on-one alumni visits. In 1983, a third development, especially significant for HBS, were the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
were you doing when you heard the news? Merton: I was just about ready to leave for an early morning flight to New York. The phone rang in my apartment at about quarter to six. I could easily have been out the door. I answered the phone, and the secretary View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
mechanics—points and badges—to give even more motivation. Every interaction with our system is logged, and this data is used to give students, teachers, and parents real-time reports on student progress. In the same classroom, you’ll have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
So what, pray tell, is that great new model? Ink-stained wretches shill the notion that journalism can only succeed as a “business” if something or somebody else subsidizes it. They note the example of Bloomberg L.P., the financial data... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
practices, which resulted in an offer to teach at Howard University. There, Fitzhugh created a marketing program and organized the school’s Small Business Center, in addition to introducing generations of black students—including HBS’s... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1 p.m. tour, including the new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
happens: Students spend part of class time—and some time at home—working at their own pace on videos and exercises. They get immediate feedback, and there are game mechanics—points and badges—to give even more motivation. Every interaction with our system is logged,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
of like knowing when and how and who to do it with and all those other things are actually quite hard, right? So I think the data and analysis is always critical, right? And doing good work is always critical. And that helps inform what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
sometimes tragic personal life. “Light and chipper in public,” McCraw writes, the charming and generous Schumpeter “lived an altogether different life in private — a continuing, desperate internal struggle with melancholy.” Excerpts from... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the best of intentions, but they still... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
display were successfully resolved, and the Sony eBook launched in the United States to extensive media coverage as the first mainstream offering in the e-reader market (the Kindle would not appear until November 2007). Over time, E Ink added new customers in cell... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Tales, author and retired group vice president of General Motors John Smith tells the story of how he and his team sprouted new life and purpose into the storied Cadillac―once the quintessential expression of accomplishment and success in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
considerably. He went on to earn advanced degrees in biochemistry and management science and immigrated with his new wife, Shainoor, to Vancouver. After a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company (“I’m an entrepreneur; I just didn’t fit”), Khoja took a job in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
keep that history, and that original mission, in focus. “David recognized early on that the web was absolutely transforming the way the media business in general functioned,” says James Bennet, the Atlantic’s editor in chief and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
program is a huge source of data for us about what is going on in the world," says SPNM faculty chair Herman ("Dutch") Leonard, the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS. "The participants bring literally... View Details