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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
graduation from HBS approached, O'Donnell seemed poised to go to work for Ross Perot, who had already made a national name for himself as founder of Electronic Data Systems. Offer in hand, however, he decided against it. "As my wife,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Is your company doing enough to protect itself from cyber attacks? According to several HBS faculty and alumni experts, senior executives need to pay more attention to this potential threat. It makes good business sense — and fulfills a national View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered a massive, high-profile data breach, with hackers breaking in and stealing everything from confidential employee View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
role in assembling the rescue package and the financial and operating data required to persuade Congress and the Bush administration to help the carriers." "Airline service is the backbone of our economy," Mullin told the House... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- News
Keeping an Eye on Things
time now because there are many modalities that are emerging. The science and technology is accelerating for facial, iris, and there are many other physical characteristics that are still in the research and development arena, such as gait, ear lobes, even vein... View Details
Keywords: Biometrics
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash For his latest venture, serial entrepreneur Jan Samzelius (MBA 1979) set out to eliminate one of the biggest annoyances of the digital era: hard-to-remember passwords. But along the way, the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
for example, filters down to retailers or health care providers in any useful or timely way. There is some forward movement, though. Lefkowitz notes that the Department of Homeland Security began sharing threat View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Certified Check
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner SafeBase Adar Arnon (MS/MBA 2020), CTO and cofounder Al Yang (MBA 2020), CEO and cofounder Concept: SafeBase serves as the go-between solution for vendors and organizations that need to verify user View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
mobile-app taxi-hailer that allows riders to find and summon the nearest available cab using GPS. There's also an added security benefit for riders, says Schroeder. "They've come up with a very simple app that helps you find something you... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
envisioned had not materialized. In a last-ditch effort to jumpstart the stalled exchange, the team built some software that created email templates and provided easy access to sales-contact data to personalize them quickly, making the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
possible since 1995 through a special arrangement with America Online (AOL), the key elements in the new system include immediate access to regularly updated information and the assignment of a lifetime e-mail "pointer" and security... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
unsuccessfully. Kimble points to San Francisco–based Achaogen, which filed for bankruptcy last April despite securing regulatory approval for one of its antibiotic treatments in 2018. Given the catch-22s of making a profit on antibiotics,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
rural versus urban and suburban, that didn’t really predict anything.” (Rural schools did have slower speeds, but they also had fewer students to slow the network down.) After securing nearly $30 million in funding, the group’s work... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
clearance lane in customs. To avoid long lines, travelers can prebook time slots for security screening using the iChangi app. And for purchases, Changi has launched a digital wallet that enables contactless payments in the airport’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
of the Blackstone River in Northbridge, Massachusetts, the factory manufactures zinc-galvanized, plastic-coated welded wire mesh used to make lobster traps, security fencing, and other wire products, using a process Knott invented. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
of training over 50,000 farmers; the final number was just under 67,000." For some organizations, performance measurement would begin and end with that data point alone. But the MCC takes a much longer view. "Training farmers is an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Kepha Partners Blinded by the Dot-Com Bust I looked at Data Domain (Series B) in 2003 and at Splunk (Series A) in 2004. At the time, we had just come through the dot-com boom and bust, and my firm and I were sitting on a lot of challenged... View Details