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- 24 Apr 2014
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Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
mobile consultation service for entrepreneurs called MBAs Across America. “We felt a responsibility to use our resources for a nobler purpose,” says Gerald. The MBA students met with American business owners, advised them on everything... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
as intelligently as they make it,” observes Tisch, who helped design and launch an HBS conference focused on helping participants make effective philanthropic decisions. As for his own philanthropic strategy, Tisch likes to go against the grain. After September 11,... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
University. That was as far as the idea went, until recently. Partnering with an MIT expert on autonomous vehicles and mobile robotics, Alden has a new company, Alden DAVe Systems (with “DAVe” an acronym for Dual-mode Autonomous Vehicle),... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2024
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Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By developing complimentary software that connected to email... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
its third consecutive fund commenced in 1992. We are currently raising a fourth fund which includes some HBS classmates (all others are welcome!!!). I have two daughters, ages 30 and 28, respectively, and a son, age 1, by my wonderful wife of five years, Donna, R.N.,... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
user journey. Luna: What was the CalFresh application process like when you guys first started working on it, and what is it like now? Ingersoll: The California application process is a 45-minute application that doesn't work on mobile... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
Technology is changing everything about how we shop. Two decades ago when we needed something, we went to the store. That’s what we’d done for hundreds of years. Then we began to turn to the computer. Now shopping means reaching for our phones; today, over half of all... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
significant within the United States, where, for example, remote workers living in Mississippi are paid about a third less than their peers in Massachusetts. This was particularly surprising for jobs that can be done well remotely, such as interior designer and View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
new feelings. I have tons of Hello Kitty—T-shirts, shoes, stationery, a PC, a mobile phone. I use a Hello Kitty credit card and checkbook. My favorite Sanrio characters are Mr. Men and Little Miss—I grew up with them in Sydney, Australia.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
notion that while the games are free to everyone, we have a ‘freemium’ model, where some users choose to pay for special items or quick level-ups in the game,” says Kafie. “Our users can pay using their credit card, mobile phone, and even... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
solve clotting, infection, and clogging issues. Alumnus: Andrew Jones, MBA 1997 Region: Mid-Atlantic US Pawame: Making solar energy affordable in Africa through a microfinance approach using mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
sharing upward mobility with all African Americans was the theme of the 26th annual HBS African-American Student Union (AASU) Career/Alumni Conference, "The Next Step: Revitalizing Our Community," held January 22-25. Taking place at HBS... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
valuable and transformative." Also last September, Acxiom unveiled its beta Audience Operating System, which allows marketers to connect traditionally disconnected data across all channels — online, offline, and mobile — and which Howe... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
of population." WPP and its clients will also have to adapt to a nonstop succession of technological changes brought about by the Internet, mobile telephony, and an explosion in video capabilities. "We need to find answers to important... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
start-up in Bangalore cofounded by CEO Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011), has developed a mobile phone attachment that will enable patients to test their blood sugar and seamlessly transmit the results to a physician or nurse for appropriate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
leadership by doing in addition to discussing cases in the classroom. “It gives us an opportunity to really put the HBS mission statement to work and take a leadership role by looking at how to leverage our expertise in a socially relevant way,” he says. “To have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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New York Club Focuses on Entrepreneurship
April, the club hosted "Untethered New York: Strategies for Success in the Mobile Internet World," in cooperation with the New York Times and angelbeat.com. Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc., and Microsoft's SVP Craig Mundie were featured... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details