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History - Health Care
School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School through the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or View Details
- 14 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
company presentation. Request your preferred date through our recruiting platform. Q – QR codes. If you are here for a company presentation, you might notice that students are bringing their cell phones up... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Rothrock’s cell phone rings. Rothrock (MBA 1988) is the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Red Seal, and a higher-up at Sony was looking for his help. After the breach, he told Rothrock, the company essentially... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for protection through trade barriers. Politicians pick up on those requests, and we witness periodic trade spats. The Catfish War is a famous example pitting the Mississippi... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
responsible for the deployment of cell phones to two-thirds of Afghans. My research shows that throughout the developing world successful organizations like Roshan must inevitably take on more tasks than... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
Michael Dell
In 1992, Dell, at 27 years of age, became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Dell revolutionized the retail computer industry by instituting a direct sales approach, where the customer places their customized order via View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
and hips and repaired with laser surgery. Laptop computers, the Internet, and cell phones make the 24-hour workday a virtual reality. As we journey even deeper into middle age, will we decide to restructure... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
diagnose patients by comparing their symptoms to millions of similar cases stored in a database. One can imagine, for example, a health worker in a remote area of a developing country where there are no doctors making a cell View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
consequences of distribution. DR: There is no doubt that there is an overall gain. But the question is, who gains? Who loses? The concentrated interests affected negatively by free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
says about him and our present-day consumer society, to a story about the rise of the Negro middle class in the South in the 1960s, to a fascinating obituary of Jay Gould, the nineteenth-century speculator, to a wonderful piece on cell... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
unwilling to spare dollars for clean water filters. “I’d watch them on a cell phone and drinking water filled with bacteria and parasites,” he says. “For me, it was such a market failure.” The challenge in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
respondents said they viewed online content on multiple devices. "Research indicates that smart phones and mobiles are where it's at in emerging markets," says Leach. "But we found that many people still use computers that rely on Wi-Fi.... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
intersection of autonomy, sensing, and connectivity, you’ll find we are rapidly approaching that day.” Cell phones may also be a potentially rich source of useful data for cities, but citizens might be wary... View Details
- 11 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact
find a place to live, navigate transportation, and arrange for essentials like cell phone service. “Otherwise,” she says, “you waste the first few weeks just settling in.” 4. Establish practical goals:... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
higher levels in the future," according to the report. Among the dozens of variables analyzed are production process sophistication, per capita Internet and cell phone use, intensity of local... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
occasional Saturday soccer game with cell phone at the ready. But for Dick Simon (MBA '80) , his wife, and three children, last year quality time meant — among other memorable adventures — camping together... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
The great thing about standards, tech industry pundit Andrew Tanenbaum once said, is that there are so many to choose from. In fact, standard setting organizations (SSOs) are the unsung heroes of the technology age. Without standards, Web... View Details
- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
of my youth ("we should open a bar in the Bahamas!"), this nagging desire to do something off the grid as a family wouldn’t go away. I could see the last vestiges of childhood slipping away in my daughter, who didn’t yet have a View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
including the fact that he can't get cell phone service in his own home. He said broadband is one area with a potential to create a lot of jobs. "This is how societies become wealthy or lose their... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
working on? A: I'm working on several cases right now, most of which deal with the pharmaceutical industry and the ways in which pharmaceutical firms manage through the political dilemmas that often confront them. I'm also beginning to... View Details