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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Countdown To Remote Learning
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When Harvard announced in early March that all instruction would move online after spring break, the clock started ticking. “HBS had just two weeks to select and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
application in an industry with the most room for improvement. Online retail, particularly online fashion, definitely fit the bill. Why is fashion a good place to focus? The industry faces several challenges... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
online dialogues with students via the Internet. Forty-three alumni - all with vivid and fresh insights into their own successes and failures - agreed to participate in the innovative pilot project, which proved to be an extraordinary... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
From buttoned-down basics (the details of online commerce) to the fringes of sci-fi (implanting computers in human brains), few stones were left unturned last October at a wide-ranging HBS forum devoted to an examination of the future of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
over the previous year. The company, which employs about one thousand workers worldwide, went public in July 1999; an article that appeared last February in Red Herring's online edition (www.redherring.com) noted that TIBCO's stock had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights
first-year MBA students. The bootcamp uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early-stage entrepreneur. Other topics such as coding and financial analysis are planned for future programs. HBX Two New View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Birds and Bees in China
The fact that they are one billion in number confirms that the Chinese have at least a passing familiarity with the means of reproduction. Yet Leslie Kenny (MBA 1997) has built a thriving online business based on a Chinese desire for more... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
WorldClinic, Inc., a "virtual ER," providing U.S.-quality health-care services to Americans traveling abroad. Cynthia A. Fisher (MBA '90) of ViaCell, Inc., which combines the banking of stem cells from umbilical cord blood with technology... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
is one of the key reasons why I wrote my book. Back in 2006, Chris Anderson [author of the The Long Tail] got people thinking that new technology would change what consumers would be choosing and, therefore, what content producers should... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
need to regularly refresh my understanding of emerging technologies and new ideas to keep pace with changes in my field. I imagine many of you feel the same way. As we look at the programs HBS offers for our graduates—MBA and Executive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
specializes in technology strategy and management innovation. This article appeared online October 1, 2009, as part of The HBR Debate: “Is the U.S. Killing Its Innovation Machine?” Edited for space. View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
Scott Cook (MBA 1976) wants to change lives through initiatives he created as cofounder of Intuit. These include the Intuit Tax Freedom Project, which provides free online tax preparation services for Americans who cannot afford to pay,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Meg's World
full-fledged powerhouse, with revenue on track to top $2 billion this year. With more than 28 million active users, eBay dominates the online auction marketplace. Whitman came straight to HBS after graduating from Princeton with a degree... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
beginning to be recognized as a leader in the delivery of electronic information to the desktops of students and faculty. Do you agree with those who predict the decline of libraries as technology proliferates? No, not at all. Rather, the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- News
A Quick Study
over online flashcards. By 2012, the pair had left medical school to focus on the founding of Osmosis, in an attempt to bring their tools to a wider audience. A recent profile by the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
Blended learning looks like the vehicle to do a lot of this, but we're thinking of it more as a student-centric system that allows for mastery-based learning. Undergirding that approach with technology is the most scalable way to do it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
alma mater and the companies I’ve worked at, I was only exacerbating the network gap.” Schrier, who is white, had met Hu virtually through the HBS network prior to their first year, and although they had been pursuing independent startups in the travel and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
representatives in support of the successful campaign for marriage equality in New York State. Our social media campaigns have reached 14 million people, and we've won awards for the innovative advocacy technology we've created and built.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
early-stage venture capital firm Glasswing Ventures, Seseri is more focused on today’s “narrow” artificial intelligence: technology capable of mimicking human thought processes and learning when applied to a specific task. “If you go... View Details
Keywords: April White