Operating Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

during a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS. The startup employs a system for collecting reproductive cell samples from a tampon, which the customer sends to the lab for genomic analysis. The lab then provides... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale and invested at a slow pace,... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

Fifty-three-year-old Vescovo, his long blond hair pulled back into a ponytail, meticulously monitored the operation of the submersible, which he had christened the Limiting Factor. He watched the depth gauge creep up: 7,192 meters, the... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

to be a doctor, but over time I became interested in larger health-care systems issues, too.” After graduating from Harvard College, where he started a health clinic for homeless people in Harvard Square, Jain completed three years at... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle

hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

business and operating models could be used to do this in low-resource settings?” “Through these fellowships, we can make all opportunities open to all students, regardless of financial need. That’s an important part of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai

Chartered Bank) in India in 1982, rising through the ranks in a variety of merchant, retail, and investment banking assignments before moving to Morgan Stanley’s India operation in 1994. Through a joint venture with the investment bank JM... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork

exterior, and systems renovations are scheduled for completion in 2015, when the residence hall will reopen as Esteves Hall. Related Groundswells: A few historical turning points for the HBS campus See how alumni support has guided the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the... View Details

30 Mar 2017
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Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

table, if I get eight you get two. We're trying to figure out a way that we both get eight. How do we create a system that has wins for all the major actors? And that ties very directly into what our definition was for a consensus... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

Sigma aficionado, Agarwala puts it this way: “Our business is about setting up systems and processes that result in good customer service.” On the technology front, a first-rate in-house IT team built the company’s Web site and stocked it... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Oct 1997
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Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75

students in the early 1920s, the idea for the magazine was quickly taken up by HBS faculty, who charged Arch Shaw, the Chicago publisher of System magazine (which later became Business Week), with producing the publication under the... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

changing the field of medicine. In the past several decades, the growing use of artificial intelligence in the health care sector has made it possible for computer systems and diagnostic machines to learn and problem solve, mimicking... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

people of different races, genders, ethnicities, religions, and political views to make the most of these differences” —JAN HAMMOND, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN In June 2020, just three months after the pandemic forced Harvard Business School to rethink its entire way of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

success. “For the longest time, creativity was considered the work of a genius operating on her own. The cult of the designer held sway, with little attention being paid to the system that supports the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

increasing the overall profitability of the concession. "I like to fix things," Richardson reflects. "I'm attracted to unstructured environments where I can solve problems and create systems that help businesses View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Books

show the price paid and factory of origin. Confronted with an unforgettable image of redundancy and waste, division heads were immediately convinced that the purchasing system needed an overhaul. Many such successes — and pitfalls — in... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2020
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Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

Republican Party. In a country like France, the multiparty system has enabled new populist parties to emerge on the far right or on the far left. RDT: In the United States, we’ve been reminded of how fragile some aspects of democracy are... View Details