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- 16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos
Cummins, he helped establish India's first college of engineering for women, and at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly a million teachers in India to use computers. He's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Getting Personal
interactions between humans and technology. Are computers the perfect tool for customized marketing? The tailoring of messages via computer technology to a person’s interests based on past purchases or... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm, which consists of a residential... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Mountains for Miracles Update
Three HBS students are climbing the world’s tallest mountains to raise money to fight childhood cancer. Donations may be made at: www.mountainsformiracles.org. View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a coauthored article in the June... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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One-on-One with Tom Oreck
headquarters or our Long Beach facility could be taken out by a hurricane. One of the things we didn’t anticipate was a storm that was massive enough to take out both locations simultaneously. Ahead of the storm, we backed up and shut down our View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
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After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
making many small bets is actually much riskier. That's why Hollywood will keep making blockbuster bets even if the returns over the summer were rather disappointing. Anyone with a smartphone and a computer is now a content provider. How... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach
large, established carriers, which write policies to cover cyberattacks but do little to preempt them, At-Bay takes a preventive approach to cyber insurance. Before signing up a new policyholder, the company performs non-intrusive penetration tests on the prospective... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce the University’s environmental... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
was a role model for me. I decided back then that I wanted to do what he did, work in technology and build a business.” That desire led Mistele to the University of Michigan, where he earned an undergraduate degree in computer engineering... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out
percent is spent on labor. Those factors inspired Andersen to found Augean Robotics (AGR), makers of an autonomous farm robot called Burro, which has the carrying capacity of a sure-footed donkey and the smarts of a deep-learning computer... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
financial world demands steady if not increasing margins. Disruptive innovations often promise lower margins than sustaining innovations. It is extraordinarily difficult for good managers to pursue worse margins aggressively. Thousands of DEC employees saw the personal... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
"Effective use of the computer for segmentation and personalization has allowed organizations to increase dramatically their annual giving. In the years ahead, effective use of e-mail will again revolutionize how these organizations raise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
two young MIT engineers who cofounded Digital — Kenneth P. Olsen and Harlan Anderson — in exchange for 70 percent of the start-up’s equity. Olsen, who was Digital’s president and undisputed leader, wanted to build smaller, cheaper, and easier-to-use View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Code Breakers
recent decades, the number of women in tech jobs remains far lower. And the figures for women in leadership roles still hover around a far-from-equal 25 percent. Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in STEM education and in View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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As the Future Catches You
genetics revolution is occurring 50 percent faster than the computer revolution; private companies, from IBM to DuPont to L'Oreal, will have the ability to rewrite the source code of life; and nanotechnology will soon produce "biorobots"... View Details