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- 01 Mar 2012
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Robots to the Rescue
problem,” he laughs. Developing a real-world version of that solution—mobile robots that can be directed to retrieve products—required a little technical help from Mountz’s MIT contacts as well as some HBS networking to gain traction on... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School’s curriculum. “There’s one Chinese company, for example, that has established an e-mail/postal service that expedites... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
later for $500 million, our software product was built by three people. If it’s software, or high tech, or the Internet, then it doesn’t matter whether 10 people use it, or 10 million, or 100 million: It’s the same amount of work to build... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
community are no exception. To give alumni the chance to sample the latest faculty thinking on some of the most pressing business issues of the day, last May the School launched Breakthrough Insights, a new Executive Education program View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
compromising their way of life? The author provides surprising answers and helps readers develop a new understanding of the full ramifications of climate change, including the discovery that they have far more control over the impacts of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
doesn’t necessarily mean having a global presence. Farrington’s StarVest Partners, for example, focuses on emerging enterprise software, a niche without significant foreign competitors. Nonetheless, the firm tracks foreign software View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Photo Courtesy The Timken Company Product innovation and customer service initiatives have also been key to development of The Timken Company, a 104-year-old bearing and steel maker based in Canton, Ohio, with 28,000 employees worldwide.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Slang.ai can be a big business if they get it right.Two years out of HBS, I cofounded the first company to develop the original automated attendant systems for small businesses and sold them through AT&T (the phone company at the time).... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA 1984) Routledge In Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs, author Linda J. Bilmes develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
the conference still acquainting themselves with the basics of "the Net," Ilene Lang (MBA '73), vice president of Digital Equipment Corporation's connectivity software business unit, furnished essential facts and background at a March 21... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
talent shortages. Anne Bonaparte sees it firsthand in her corporate customers: a lack of frontline security workers. “They’re not developers or data scientists,” she says. The workers they need range from entry level to managerial... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
development of the new Asia-Pacific Research Office. As the HBS faculty increases its activities in Asia, the School must stay in touch with academics and practitioners who live there, Hayes observed. "Perhaps in the process of getting to... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
software development firm, is a case in point. Located in the WTC, the company lost everything, including the prototype of an important new product. Says Taubenslag, "We helped them get their security... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything, authors Conn and McLean—both veterans of McKinsey & Co.—offer a seven-step, systematic approach to creative problem solving, developed in top consulting firms, that will... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
people web development for fun, and getting them amazing jobs and careers. I was blown away. That’s when the light bulb went off. Since then, we’ve done fairly well. We’ve trained over 500 graduates and maintain a 99 percent job placement... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
and entrepreneurial skills, Mayor Bloomberg, like his counterparts in other cities, has drawn up a plan to make his city greener. With his PlaNYC, supported by extensive tracking software designed to ensure and monitor efficiencies,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
anecdotes illuminate technical concepts. A natural teacher, King emphasizes that complex software is unnecessary for success in this field. Readers will find real-life examples that help put statistical concepts into an understandable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
he cofounded Giant Otter, a startup that developed anti-bullying software designed to make both a social impact and a profit. The company’s foreign-born coders, however, lacked the cultural competency to... View Details