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- 08 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)
paired student teams with technologies developed at the University, alongside an experienced industry mentor. The student teams were responsible for developing a commercialization strategy for the inventor and advancing the business plan.... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
found out about the Audiotext hotline. The technology for the hotline was fairly limited, but a person could call in and get prerecorded information about being gay at a time when there was nowhere to go for information. Fortune magazine... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees settlers, whose number is determined by an annual cap set in advance. These refugees are distributed to 10 resettlement agencies, each of which runs a network of local affiliates that have their own predetermined capacity... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
advanced capabilities, such as detection and response tools, in areas with the most sensitive data or the most risk to the organization’s mission. Once you’ve identified risk and placed controls in line with your prioritized assets, then you need to relentlessly test... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
Above: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) at GM World in Detroit’s Renaissance Center (photo by Brian Kelly) Who you are is the sum total of your experiences. Growing up in Chennai, India, the importance of education and working incredibly hard were View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Naeill Leigh
yourself? I’ve always been most comfortable with technology and engineering. Just by having great interactions with my finance professor has pushed me toward going into finance, which I wouldn’t have considered before coming to HBS. In my... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
other numbers. They turned to HBS’s Information Technology group to implement the model, with versions going back and forth as they calibrated and set hundreds of parameters for the game. About 20 people worked on the project, and... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
million into sixty shares, thirty of which were kept by his owners. “We sold the rest and bought ten for ourselves. We decide on a case-by-case basis how much equity we’ll take of the horse we’re syndicating. The investment side is where you hit it big or you don’t.... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
filter into their retirement. “One thing that my family drilled into me at a super-young age was the importance of education,” says Akuete. She was lucky, she notes, having won the “geographic lottery” simply by being born in the States... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
—it's the challenge of leading a major company in the turbulent global economy. A longtime executive at Monsanto and BFGoodrich, Price believes that the turmoil caused by forces such as consolidation, overcapacity, and technological... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
course of history—and their own lives. The Captain, Linda and the Tiger Shark: Their Love Was His Armor by Carlos M. Lago (MBA 1977) Mill City Press A novel about love almost lost to the sea—and what lurks within. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
tweaked the website, the overall sales conversion rate for buyers actually went up by as much as 23 percent, meaning that customers weren’t just buying higher-priced items, rather, they were buying more items overall. When Teixeira and Ngwe View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
determine prices and utilization in the short run, as well as how long-run supply is determined in an industry where capacity additions take several years. Also describes how advances in deep-water drilling View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
paper, Toffel says. Other questions to answer include: What types of responses to incidents are most effective? When should behavioral corrections be implemented? When should technological corrections be made? "I'm excited to look at this... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
for both customers and producers. After pointing out that "Less is more is probably a great way to be a consumer. If you practice it, you will drill down into your purchase thinking and determine real needs versus discretionary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Floor hand Ray Gerrish works to make repairs on a drilling rig outside Watford City. Employees work around the clock at Raven Rig No. 1, one of more than 150 oil rigs in the Bakken. (photos by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Press... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
"Bank of America is interested in accessing innovative digital technologies that will help it redefine how banking is done," Sato says. "The bank sees this as an opportunity to fuel its continued competitive presence in a... View Details