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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
another 18 months for a product to get to market. There are parallels here between appliance production and auto production: You find an idea you like, you do a bunch of market research, View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
written of his personal experience with the healthcare system. Cue MinuteClinic, located in 640 CVS stores across 25 states. Staffed with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, it provides on-the-spot... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
Feagler’s interest. His favorite assignment was supervising 75 enlisted men responsible for maintaining the electronics and weapons systems. “Most aviators are unhappy unless they’re flying,” he says. “But... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless the bar codes on the SmartPak... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer product questions: Should the product be sold at big-box stores or through upscale specialty boutiques? (In the beginning, Nanda stuck with small museum shops View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
purchase goods from distributors. "A retail chain store with several outlets might bid on these items, for example," he says. Auctions are held daily and are done in real time. "You go to the site, see what... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
the key decisions about the renovation made early on centered on the crucial role of books. Electronic resources, of course, were also deemed important, but not at the expense of books. It was clear that HBS’s vast — View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
odd to them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
Apple's app store (search for HBS Alumni Bulletin). This interactive edition offers readers a multimedia experience, with digital extras that include video of an HBS grad's orchestral training app in action View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
20,000 people to 150,000 people and it's a beautiful area, and I see this kind of old school development happening, you know and these big box View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak’s no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza’s (see page 42) merchandise, payment plans, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
computers. (Yes, Virginia, HBS was once Mac territory!) Ace stored more kinds of alumni information (e.g., kin relationships between alums, one level of prior employment, and, eventually, e-mail addresses) than the previous system did... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
Veterans Affairs benefits, Hall and fellow Army Ranger Matthew Thompson (MBA 2010) sought to create a business that would help veterans receive the benefits they deserve. The result was TroopSwap, an online source for discounts View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
that has an impact on alumni. The Communications Committee, led by John B. Hoffmann (MBA 1964), will study the ways in which HBS communicates with alumni. While all graduates receive numerous messages from the School, their class, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
Pain. My partner, Louis Kane, and I incorporated in 1981, went public in 1991, and had 250 stores by 1993. How did Panera come into the mix? In 1993 we Au Bon Pain acquired a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
of electronic medical records, which make patient information accessible and portable, have been talked about for a long time. One hurdle to progress on this relates, again, to the existing business model,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
intercepted them at consumer electronics stores and followed them home to talk about what they bought and why," says Fournier. "We then followed... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head... View Details