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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
arm might lift a barbell.” The 229 RCs who signed up for lunch roulette were connected with three perfectly randomized HBS classmates. Hosted by the Student Association and the Digital Initiative, the project used an open source computer... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
modern life." As computer technology emerged in the 1950s, initial reactions in the Bulletin were mixed. "One of the most dramatic developments in the business world is the growth of automatic data processing," wrote a faculty member in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
English. But it needed all synapses firing to fend off the flesh-and-blood HBS team (MIT finished a distant third). Named after IBM patriarch Thomas J. Watson, this Watson is endowed with a canned male voice that recalls the creepy View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
them in their native countries. Today, America is the leader in only five product areas: computer hardware, software, biotechnology, aerospace, and entertainment. That is not enough to provide job opportunities for a country of 300... View Details
Keywords: Byron Wien; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
settlement, all while requiring less computational power and using far less energy than many current blockchains. Dyer says they have also tested the first public stablecoin (a cryptocurrency that has its value pegged to a commodity or... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
aircrafts, vessels, and buildings; and translate a visual image (e.g., a pile of black rocks) into a number on a spreadsheet (e.g., tons of coal ready for shipment). And because they run not only on BlackSky’s terrestrial computers but... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
in the computer industry, while Professor Malcolm S. Salter's work on corporate strategy, organization, and governance looks at how ownership structure affects organizational performance. Asso-ciate Professor Karen Hopper Wruck, who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as CEO, he prepares to lead the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
the age of 57, Charles Rossotti made a self-described "huge detour" from a 28-year career at American Management Systems, Inc., the Virginia-based computer systems consulting firm he cofounded. He went from helping corporate clients... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
the Time & Life Building, she was given what were then state-of-the-art tools: an adding machine and an IBM Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have for what’s gone wrong in America’s executive suites. Two... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
Worth the Wait HBS plans a memorable Centennial year The first centennial I remember happened in my North Carolina hometown in the late 1950s. The men grew beards, wore funny hats, and puffed on awful-smelling cigars. The town held a parade and put on a grand fireworks... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
From A to Z
ABEREOJE AND ZOTOVA: Two of the new faces (and new friends) of the Class of 2009. Class of 2009 Class Size 901 Yield 89% Women 36% Minorities 24% International 33% Total Countries 67 Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 36% Engineering 28% Business 25%... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Wells to Lead IMD
HBS Professor of Management Practice John Wells (MBA ’79, DBA ’84) has been named the new president of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), in Lausanne, Switzerland, effective this spring. Beginning in the 1980s, Wells served as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
Upbeat, collaborative, and engaged.” That’s how Professor Teresa Amabile describes a gathering of 85 scholars and 15 business leaders held on the HBS campus in early December. The two-day Centennial conference, “Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
What’s the first adjective that comes to mind when you hear the word centennial? Be honest. I bet it’s not fun, or entertaining, or cool. Now get ready for a surprise. The Knowledge and Library Services folks at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center have launched a fun,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Join in the Centennial
You don’t have to be on campus to tap into HBS Centennial events. The School’s yearlong celebration now has a Web home — www.hbs.edu/centennial/. The site gives the Centennial 21st-century global reach tailored for an alumni audience on which the sun never sets. On the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Community Partners Program Honored for Service to Nonprofits
The HBS clubs' Community Partners program, which provides free consulting services to nonprofits, has received the Volunteer Service Award from the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. Several clubs have strong Community Partners programs, including... View Details