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29 May 2019
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A Study of More Than 250 Platforms Reveals Why Most Fail

14 Dec 2007
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Going Against the Flow: Michelle Zatlyn, Cofounder of CloudFlare

30 Nov 2019
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CIOs concerned IT not providing enough of a competitive edge

22 Dec 2013
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Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet

01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at Major League Baseball, he... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

day. An abbreviation of “demonstrating diagnostics,” DemDx is a software platform with embedded AI technology that guides health care providers through all the necessary questions in a patient examination to speed the patient onto the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2024
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Competing in the Age of AI

Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project

plateau online with rising costs due to iOS 14 privacy limiting tracking, so retail will open the door to a huge new pool of captive customers. Maev can offer different SKUs for retail, even if it’s just a sticker on the packaging—and include a View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier

members to test out theories and analyze results that often lead to breakthrough ideas. Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB Web 1.0 1990–2005... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2024
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Leading Businesses in a Web3 World

Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg Web3 is poised to transform everything we do online by decentralizing and democratizing the internet. That transformation is already underway in the business world: built on blockchain technology that offers increased security and... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

will be crucial. In the arena of digital, data, and design, it’s clear that digital technologies and data science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, are disrupting operations, business models, and businesses around... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

The entire process -- from ad to purchase -- might take less than five minutes. In addition to streamlining the flow of information and transactions, Web technology can also help advertisers meet two of the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

simple. The resulting product, Trellix, developed by Bricklin and his colleagues in 1996, does precisely that by eliminating the need for Web site developers to learn the often cryptic HTML coding language. Today, Bricklin is chief View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Jun 1997
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HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus

Future of Retailing." Participants reported success in leveraging advanced technology to reach more customers and provide better service. Tuck Rickards (MBA '91), CEO of Virtual Emporium, an online shopping company, predicted that "in the... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner

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