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- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
I was 14. It was a completely foreign world from working-class Detroit where I grew up, and it was terrifying. In my first job out of business school, my boss affectionately nicknamed me “Pitbull” because I had a very high hit rate in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
and in government, to rapidly rising incomes and tax revenues. We haven't had that for twenty years, and now blue-collar and middle-class people sense those days may be gone forever. You state that high wages are a key component of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
nonstarter. It is also a mistake to believe that high-end activities will naturally occur in the United States. We are not inherently smarter than other people around the world. So what should be the U.S. strategy? We have to figure out what our View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
from initial research phases, to brainstorming, to concept development and prototyping. The results? A car that might feature a personalized hood ornament and an interior with pulsating floor lights, customized seat covers, and an onboard computer with MP3 View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
price, high value, subscriptions—that worked in a succession of businesses. Did the class see it? No. Did I see it, in real time? No. Keeps you humble.” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
afflicting a city require a high capability for analyzing problems, delineating strategies, and ensuring implementation," says Austin. "These problems require an understanding of economic development and the capacity to mobilize and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Africa's challenges, Sachs noted that the fates of the temperate and tropical zones are intrinsically linked, that information technology will be a tremendous help in overcoming many difficulties, and that the reliance on natural... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
While perhaps stating the obvious, when you work in socially troubled areas, there is a high risk of failure. Alternatives to achieve the implicit outcome (in this case, reconciliation), as opposed to just the explicit outcome (income... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
effective. "When I graduated from high school," Merkl says, "my father gave me 3,000 deutsche marks and told me to leave from the front door of the house and return at the back door, taking the long way around. As naïve as it sounds, I... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
dropping as fuel costs were rising, pulling down SUV sales. Korean automakers were taking more and more market share, buoyed by government investment. Structural costs—US labor high among them—remained a drag on domestic production. “It’s... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services and culinary services and on and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
literature about how to go do that. And that was just going to prove to myself that the technology could work and was viable. DM: Turns out it was. I'm Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and this is the third and final episode of Clearing the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
materials served up to Americans was exploding: In 1978, Time Inc. published 6 magazines; today it publishes 132. Technology transformed broadcast media as well. In the late 1970s, most Americans had three networks on their TV sets: ABC,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
rewarding contributions that benefit society; holding government leaders to high standards of conduct; engaging with the world in ways that maximize opportunities for the many; and increasing opportunities for civilian national service.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
reach wealthy and technologically savvy consumers fed up with gridlock and delay. At the heart of each business: a vision to change how Jakartans navigate the city’s congestion and transform their relationship with this sprawling... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
thing." Over the past fifteen years, as technology altered the business landscape, another transformation swept the globe. This was a revolution of beans, not bytes, and it changed the way Americans drank coffee, a once-innocuous beverage... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
explains. His creation has drawn praise from environmentally concerned leaders such as Al Gore and John Kerry. On a trip back home, Yarlagadda says he saw a villager using his lantern as a headlight for a bullock cart. “Seeing people use my View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Robin Gregg (MBA 2002) grew up in the West Virginia town of Martinsburg, 15 minutes from the midpoint of the Appalachian Trail. “Most of the people I looked up to were doctors, lawyers, or teachers, so it’s funny that I ended up in business,” she says. One of five... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
away from what has made the Internet so amazing for the economy in the world. Prince: For us, whenever we go to roll out a new function we’ll often reach out to our free customers and say hey we’re thinking of building this really high... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more... View Details
Keywords: April White