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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
First-of-its-kind infrared proximity sensors detect the motion of a finger as it hovers over the screen; the same technology has been installed in the elevators. Passengers also have the option of registering their iris and facial... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
in this country and abroad. With the proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
to touch them. Nobody wants to recognize their mistakes, and so they’re left there and the consequences kind of become worse and worse. So I learned in that case that the proximity of the boss to everybody in the frontline and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
you’re in. Mike Toffel: And there’s a real limitation to thinking that win-win opportunities that provide both financial and environmental gains will get us where we need to go. In some domains—especially where the cause and result of the problem are very View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
The rent is relatively cheap ($200/month per person) compared to start-up sites in Kendall Square and South Boston’s Innovation District, its dedicated desks offer more permanence than most co-working spaces, and the access to the i-lab’s resources and View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
front line of a turnaround. “It was a chance to contribute to my hometown company, which was in great need of young, innovative leaders,” and offered proximity to family as he and his wife, Kristi Jones MBA 2007, started a family. And... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
highlighted existing partnerships, and explored ways to foster innovation even before two-thirds of SEAS moves to its new campus adjacent to HBS and the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2020. More than 100 HBS and SEAS faculty, doctoral students, and staff attended the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
After a nine-year break, I’ve gone back to work. My foot is still lightly on the gas pedal, but I have consciously chosen not to accelerate until more is worked out. I will say that proximity of work to home has been a key success element... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
Bluetooth in Android and Apple smartphones to determine proximity between people, and thus assess their potential exposure to the coronavirus. A random ID attached to a user’s phone number generates temporary, encrypted IDs. When users’... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
worth—that was far too big for one person’s needs. They converged around an idea: “How do you get young artists in proximity with established artists to share knowledge,” Price says. “And how do you use art to inspire growth and impact in... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
and hiking in New Hampshire. Now that we’re back in LA, we miss the proximity of all of those things but 100 percent definitely don’t miss the weather.” What advice do you have for HBS students interested in launching their own startups?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
your perspective, given that you spent a number of years with Grove? Oh yes. As I write in the acknowledgments, I work for a university with the motto Veritas. You try to tell the truth. Nevertheless, when you spend as much time as I did in close View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
moved out of the immediate area, financialservices companies will remain a fixture in Lower Manhattan. "I think most of the major decisionmakers in the financial community recognize the benefit of proximity and a concentrated presence,"... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
need to be proximate to and fluent in the markets and the people that you’re serving. If you’re looking to invest in the best, then you have to expand your horizons and your network.” —Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998), founder and CEO, Landit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
530,000-square-foot Allston Science Complex — four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011 — the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard’s 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. Both in the scale and scope of Harvard’s ambitions and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Hotel. The World Trade Center Manila was converted to a COVID-19 treatment facility. Essential workers undergo COVID-19 testing at Ayala Land's Seda Hotel. Due to its geographic proximity to the equator and the Pacific Ring of Fire, the... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
and free vertical housing (apartment buildings) in Dharavi to its longtime residents. In exchange, the DRP will develop the freed-up land with commercial and residential real estate, all desirable and valuable for its convenient proximity... View Details