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- 20 Aug 2020
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From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
and back again to a local Radio Shack to buy parts for a succession of gadgets: homemade robots, hovercrafts, a solar-powered cooker, and devices to keep his siblings out of his room.” That passion continued to grow throughout Bezos’... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
steam engine, electricity, and openhearth furnace allows businesses to expand nationwide Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 First widespread use of auto assembly line Self-starter increases popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 KDKA, first View Details
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The Gift of Global Talent
OCT 2018 | Managing the Future of Work Professor Bill Kerr talks with co-host Professor Joe Fuller about his new book on global talent. Talent, Bill argues, is the world’s most precious resource. Professor Bill Kerr View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
stay-at-home mompreneurs, the work got done in whatever bits of time she could steal from the day. When her daughter, Della, enrolled in a dance class in Harlem that year, Dixon would drive her Jetta wagon with “WOKE” plates and SiriusXM View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
important in shaping who we are as businesspeople," echoes David E. Simmons (MBA '85), president of Simmons Family, Inc., a firm established by Roy Simmons in 1978 that owns and operates radio stations in the western United States. "The... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 KDKA, first radio station First talking movie, Influence: Medium 30 1930 s 19 Advances in aviation Nylon Fiberglass Instant photography... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
work. I also learned that spending an hour talking to your girlfriend on the company phone when the boss is trying to call in is a quick way to get seriously reprimanded. Kwinters customers had two options: a ready-made steamed dog or a... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
even within that difficulty, I saw such a compassionate side of humanity that I was truly inspired. So I put out this radio appeal in a country that's not my own, and just said, "We've come from India. We have a daughter and can you... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Former Chairman Landmark Communications, Inc. Frank Batten has delivered hundreds of speeches on the media, philanthropy, and education. The fact that most of these talks were given after his larynx had been removed is a testament to his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up for Grabs
governorship of California. Alluding to the cash-strapped Golden State’s financial predicament, Whitman said, “Honestly, when I talk about spending, I get mad. I simply cannot understand how even politicians could have let things get so... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
tour promoting his first book, MouthSounds: How to Whistle, Pop, Click, and Honk Your Way to Social Success, the same fly imitation landed Newman a job as the host of Nickelodeon’s teen talk show Livewire. Since then he has hosted The... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
relating to the radio company, which was completely fascinating because it gave us an excuse to talk to eight of the biggest firms in Kigali about their marketing strategy and to compare how they did... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
“blind,” with a raising-gang foreman guiding him through the process with radioed instructions. No wonder he’s not the most talkative person you’ll ever meet. The guy has a lot on his mind. “It’s like I’ve... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
who also headed a think tank for creating patentable business ideas. "When Jay first started talking about the principles that would shape Priceline, I knew we were really on to something," Brier says. Once Priceline was up and running,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
conditions and competing forms of entertainment that is displacing legitimate sales." The industry is rethinking its position, although change occurs slowly. Q: Let's talk strategy. What have been the recording companies' strategies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
bridge club: “What do I tell people you do?” In HBS terms, I’m the creative director of my multi-hundred-dollar corporation, Talking Dog Productions Inc. But I’m just a storyteller—across different media. Having a corporation insulated... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
still a win for humanity. Julian Zlatev: There’s been a long debate in psychology about whether people are truly altruistic: Is altruism really altruism if it reflects this warm glow or the self-interested reasons Christine is talking... View Details