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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
When I started Zynga, I realized that our generation has the opportunity to build the digital skyscrapers that may be around for the next century. These are Internet treasures because we can’t remember life before these services or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
pension funds, to former and current Disney employees. Taking a page out of Howard Dean’s book, they used the Internet to reach supporters via a Web site, SaveDisney.com. Thousands of e-mails poured in. Beaulieu plans to teach the case... 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 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
Coop's brand name, while a core Coop management group retained control of Internet and catalogue sales, Coop membership, and interactions with local universities. A $4 million renovation of the Harvard Square flagship store that uncovered... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
me, scribbling this information down in her wire-bound notebook. Remarkably, in this Internet age, without the assistance of a hand courier or FedEx, the hospital would be unable to access my dad’s prior scans. After getting to know his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
eBrands: Building an Internet Business at Breakneck Speed, by Phil Carpenter, recounts the successes, failures, and fears of eBrand pioneers. It will help readers learn the essential strategies behind electronic brand-building and how it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Gazette reports the news of his 42-inch, 40-pound striped bass, not his accomplishments as an Internet entrepreneur who sold his company, PlanetAll, to Amazon.com in 1998. Now Adams, his wife Megan Weeks Adams (MBA ’97), and their... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
human beings, but we have adapted to the Internet world." Growing slowly and deliberately has served Southwest well, the study concludes. And taking the extra time to re-cruit and train staff, to use technology carefully, to control costs... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
that brought the Internet into millions of homes in the 1990s. Like so many companies, Corning was caught by surprise when the telecommunications bubble burst. Its stock tumbled, from more than $100 to about a dollar per share. “That was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
consulting firm focused on the nascent field of Internet marketing. He spent several years building Conduit into one of Europe’s fastest-growing technology companies, eventually counting 130 employees around the globe and $20 million in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
what loyalty means or how to build it. Reichheld, author of the 1996 bestseller The Loyalty Effect, outlines six principles of loyalty that can make the Internet a hospitable and highly profitable place for businesses to succeed. 20/20... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
heart attack and fell backwards. Both survived, but the event instigated a crisis in care. “My parents had come to help us with child care, and I found myself worrying about both child and senior care,” she says. “I was working at an View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
to the first contest. The climate was ripe in 1997. Enrollment in courses like Entrepreneurial Finance and Entrepreneurial Management was way up; the Internet revolution — with its low barriers to entry — was in high gear; venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype” of broadband, offering free... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
do. The Internet and social media make position in a hierarchy less important than the ability to attract followers. Facebook pages or Twitter feeds are followed for their content, and anyone can claim a domain name in her own name. As... 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 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
grown the concern into one of Brazil’s largest nonfood discount retailers with some 500 stores and a powerful Internet presence: Today, half of Lojas’s sales take place online. In 1993, Sicupira, Jorge Paulo Lemann, and Marcel Telles,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
high-speed Internet service, in 1996. “We beat the telephone companies to market in six of seven regions,” says McMinn. He left to start another company, then returned to Covad in 2000 when the tech bubble burst. That was also when he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
the models that online retailers use to prevent internet fraud, even the most high-tech modern businesses are empowered by theory first envisioned by economists. Pakistan, India and the Bomb: Spy versus Counterspy by James Glenn (MBA... View Details