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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
acquisitions, analyzed the impact of accounting information. The stock market, he found, reacts positively to an open disclosure of a merger, coupled with independent corporate governance. His current research concentrates on Internet... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
recognition in the field I was pursuing." Today, as CFO of a hot new Internet company called Excite@Home, the self-described "introspective" executive is getting plenty of attention. Goldman is busy helping Excite@Home become what he... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
President Obama launched the ConnectED initiative to bring high-speed broadband to 99 percent of public schools across America within five years. Next they lobbied the FCC to modernize its long-standing federal E-rate program, which had been View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
"dot nothings"; that legacy systems can be built upon; that the United States is the Internet leader; that PCs provide the only access to the Internet; and that English is the language of the Internet. Nolan... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
feature prominent business and financial leaders; the Community Partners program, which provides pro bono management consulting to New York-area nonprofits; and financial aid for students entering HBS. An example of one of the club's many... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
of this year's event, also provided hands-on Internet demonstrations throughout the conference.) Yet as these and many other speakers stressed, new technologies such as the View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his personal computer. A Nation of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
could just as likely widen the divide between rich and poor, because information technology to date has generally increased the demand for skilled, higher-paid workers while reducing the need for unskilled workers." "Let us hope," the authors conclude, "that a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
colleagues to the e-mail address they already have at their company or home. Alumni - if they haven't done so already - will need to provide us with that address, and we will set it up so their HBS e-mail is forwarded to them." One... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
providing an unglamorous but essential (and lucrative) support service. EMC stores, safeguards, organizes, and makes instantly accessible the currency that, in the information age, constitutes companies' inherent wealth: their corporate... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Most of the money is taken from revenues generated by the Working Assets credit card, long-distance telephone, and Internet businesses, whose customers sign on for these services because they support the company's progressive stance and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
Once the public schools in North Chicago decided to close in mid-March because of COVID-19, it took Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) and her staff less than 72 hours to totally revamp the business model for the nonprofit she runs, North Chicago Community Partners (NCCP),... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
Medical Devices, the regional finalists were: Boston: iSpecimen (Mike Pierce, MBA ’01, interim COO) is building a network that connects clinical laboratories and hospital electronic medical record systems at leading institutions. The system will View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
breathtaking Internet IPOs - the company's stock went from $17 to $95.50 on its first day of trading. "It's the first pure-play journalism IPO," Kramer told USA Today (January 26, 1999), adding that the wonders of the Web are such that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
events are big hits; nontechnical volunteers can build and maintain a club Web site; and the low cost appeals to small clubs with limited resources. HBS signed a long-term agreement last fall with Harris Internet Services, a leading View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
at-home access to devices and the internet is a must-have. I hope this crisis changes our mindset about that. Khan Academy doesn’t solve that problem, but we can use our soapbox to help advocate for that. There seems to be writing on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
Jersey, where the school system was on the verge of collapse. In 1993, the company put PCs, complete with e-mail and Internet access, on the desks of all 135 seventh-grade students in the Christopher Columbus Middle School - as well as in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
to consider the relationship between the CEO and the board. “The board is supposed to simultaneously advise and evaluate the CEO,” observes Beaulieu. “The Disney case brings out the challenges board members face in fulfilling this dual role and View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
the Coop, the focus on books is true to the store's original charter. Founded by a group of thrifty Harvard undergrads who felt Cambridge merchants were charging too much for books and firewood, the Coop has over the years provided the... View Details