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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic considerations, especially in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
teachers the School has cultivated over the years. Second, we have invested heavily in research support. In addition to the research centers I mentioned earlier, we’ve established the Computer Lab for Experimental Research, for example,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
years ago, it would have been easy to dismiss Levy’s vision as mere wishful thinking. First proposed in the early 1980s by the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, quantum computing represents an entirely... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
the basic premise is this: Computers get smart, become self-aware, take over, sometimes take on the shape of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and try to eradicate humanity. Here's a refresher, courtesy of Terminator 3: “The virus has infected... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
Courtesy Meaghan Fitzgerald How did you become interested in virtual reality (VR)? “I have always been a fan of sci-fi and future tech. VR seemed to hold this promise of being something between a teleportation machine and a future View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
crystallize action around a program that made sense." By listening and learning from all of these constituencies, Charron outlined principles and clarified a vision to help guide newly empowered associates' decision-making. Perhaps most... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
Citizen Year fellows. Her vision is that the program will become a household name with the prestige of the Fulbright Program or Teach For America, and that the idea of a global bridge year before college becomes the norm, not the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Allston Options Up for Discussion
buildings, and for graduate housing as well as four new undergraduate houses. The report represents the first step in giving shape to Harvard’s vision for the Allston expansion. A finished plan is a year or more away, and construction... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
citizens of New York City through the protracted process of rebuilding following the terrorist attacks of 2001; and applied his philanthropic principles and vision at HBS in establishing the Social Enterprise Initiative. MORE Tribute to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
keys. Around 3 a.m., he decided to walk to the WTC site. "It was a vision of hell - dark and still, except for the fires and the noise they made. There was twisted rubble everywhere, crushed fire trucks, crews of soot-covered rescue... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
of course be Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, who put in just one year at Harvard College before retreating westward to lay the groundwork for the computer revolution. HBS alumni selected Gates, barely twenty years old and a business... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
managers' ability to put this new technology to effective use, McFarlan stated, "Making it happen is very hard. The major challenge in 1996 is much less the vision than it is the messy, complex problem of implementation." For the next two... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Bloomberg spent 15 years at Salomon Brothers, where he rose through the ranks from an entry-level job counting securities by hand to general partner. When he was 39, Salomon merged with another firm and Bloomberg was fired. The energetic entrepreneur quickly launched... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
replacement of most faculty and administrative desktop machines, the introduction of a single electronic-mail system, and the construction of a 100-machine personal computer lab in previously unfinished space in the basement of Shad Hall.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
of universal goals for all women. Instead, Kraus says much of her academic focus—informed by her study of entrepreneurship, career planning, and the juggling of work/family priorities—is on helping women develop and commit to a personal View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
be able to do computational prediction for creating a top 20 list of antisense oligos. With those, we can test them against his cell line. So as part of the biopsy, in phase one, we establish a cell line. What that is, is it’s taking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
For its initial handful of customers, AGR has focused on high-value, high-margin but labor-intensive crops like berries and table grapes, where Burro can use computer vision to navigate between rows,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
organizations serve, but also for the people who have chosen to work for such organizations. “I laugh all the time that nonprofits work with duct tape and rubber bands,” says Lisle. “The goal is not to do that. It’s to get staff ample pay and new, not used, View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
algorithms that have been supercharged with more data and computing power, she says. “It’s not that they aren’t accomplishing interesting things—they are,” she notes. “But they’re not doing it in a way that your brain does it. So the next... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
modern life." As computer technology emerged in the 1950s, initial reactions in the Bulletin were mixed. "One of the most dramatic developments in the business world is the growth of automatic data processing," wrote a faculty member in... View Details