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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
will provide students small-group learning experiences that are by design immersive, experiential, and field-based. FIELD complements the School’s case method of participant-centered learning, and creates a rigorous new platform for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
“red skirt,” red skirts from various retailers would appear. None of the founders had any experience in retail, the app was slow, and almost all of us passed. When it did launch, the app was a disappointment. But the founders learned and pivoted into a web-based View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
on KLM airline’s use of the Facebook Messenger platform for customer care, says Levine, and Walmart’s employee training program, which features Oculus Go’s virtual reality headsets. No stranger to the Facebook family, Levine came to the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Chirchirillo was able to establish a foothold in China. That import model, however, was only intended to be an interim strategy to build a global capability, and in 2008, Chirchirillo purchased a precision metal-stamping company in McHenry, Illinois. “I view that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
dramatically scaling our impact without scaling the organization,” he continues. “So if the first decade was direct service and knowledge, the second decade will be about taking that platform and generating 100 times more impact.” One... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
degree, we’re seeing that. What can individuals do to make sure the sharing economy continues to grow? —Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) There are two main barriers to growth in the sharing economy. The first is awareness, and the second is trust. Many people just don’t know... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
speaking with a worker at the BulkWhiz warehouse. Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Rashad: I am Amira Rashad. I am founder and CEO of BulkWhiz, an online bulk grocery platform based out of Dubai in the UAE and covering the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
though people may have strong ideas about corporate behavior, they haven’t had the levers to deploy the collective power of their ownership. Perhaps, Savova suggests, a tech-enabled platform like PensionBee could help with that. Also, the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
tremendous value to our target audience.” The main focus of YAM is to shrink that management talent gap in Africa. It does this by providing networking opportunities; educating companies and young business people about the opportunities in Africa; offering career... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
businesses to get funding. A number of crowd-funding platforms had appeared, but none were really set up to serve small businesses. I wondered if there was an opportunity there, and I called John to discuss the idea. Our conclusion was... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
platform that enables you to leverage your resources by drawing on the independent activities of large numbers of individuals and enterprises that may not be known to you at all." Many of the conference's other sessions - even when... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
club notes, has touched the lives of more than half a million people in India and has also exported medicines to many other hard-hit countries in Asia and Africa. Dr. Natarajan founded the Pune Platform for COVID Response (PPCR), which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
cofounder and CEO of OCOchem, a Washington-based company developing and scaling technology to convert carbon dioxide into formic acid, a widely used chemical. We’ve built a device that converts carbon dioxide and water, using electricity and a catalyst, into a View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
technology offered two advantages. First, the company had been focused on creating not a single drug, but a platform for analyzing proteins and producing synthetic mRNA. That same process could be used to analyze the proteins on a virus... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
about that?" When you think about the network he has, as a result of those experiences, he's basically able to build a global platform for himself that he can do whatever he wants to do with. That's one example. We have a number of... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
most importantly, a platform is something you can build on. Cummings developed the Orchestra Place project, the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and numerous other performances spaces and educational programs. It is nicknamed “The... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
play out, the current wave of technologies will be subsumed by the next—just as Blockbuster was eaten by at-home DVDs, which were in turn devoured by on-demand video, Soares says. Platforms that license music like TikTok and Roblox will... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
full of reporters. He’s not just going to sit there and nod. He’s going to question assumptions and refute them.” How does CORe differ from other online programs? Paul felt that HBX maximized the web platform whereas many other online... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
considered the ownership of Africa.com to be a tremendous opportunity and responsibility,” she says. “I thought that, when I retired, which I imagined would be a long time from now, I would turn it into this great platform to tell the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman