Technology Consulting - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

implementation of new technology as a particular highlight. Observed Deborah McConchie (MBA '79), whose Boston-area consulting business has many high-tech clients, "It was a well-organized conference with a... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

29 May 2013
Blog Post

“A place to grow personally and professionally.” - Yolanda Anton

evolved towards Project Management, having led international aerospace projects valued at several million dollars where negotiation skills often became more valuable than my technology background. Lately, I worked for Airbus leading a... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

01 Jun 2017
News

Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

Long before HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani used crowdsourcing to develop pioneering research on the science of innovation, his experiences working at General Electric and the Boston Consulting Group piqued his curiosity about how such... View Details

Andrzej Baraniak

Andrzej is a cofounder of Albert, a direct to consumer financial technology company started in 2015. Albert has raised over $200 million to date, has over 1 million active subscribers and a team of over 100 employees. Before Albert,... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Dec 2010
News

Making a Difference

closely with actor Marlon Brando before his death in 2004 to create a development plan for Brando’s 1,500-acre Tahitian atoll. When the forty-unit project is completed in 2012, the resort will be virtually carbon neutral and a showcase for green View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

20 Jul 2017
News

Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics

and machine learning (Dougal Maclaurin), and Jong Lee (MBA 1999), a former consultant and startup executive with extensive experience in the medical technology space. “There is a huge unmet clinical need for... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2003
News

Up Against The Firewall

policies, and procedures to detect if anyone successfully intrudes, and then to know how to respond. Security is not just firewalls.” Indeed, a reliance on technological defenses can breed a false sense of security, since constant... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services

ads and marshals the full range of human and technological resources available at HBS and beyond. Gardella joined the HBS staff in October 1997, succeeding Robert M. Armstrong (MBA '66), who moved on to the Burlington, Massachusetts... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

01 Oct 1999
News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological innovation, developing... View Details

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor. Far from being a "neutral View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Technology

Career Coach

Suzie Rubin

an MBA from Kellogg and a BS in Zoology from Duke University.Work Experience: Medtronic: product management and marketing. Genentech: marketing. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment: science and View Details

Keywords: Health Care

26 May 2015
News

Life plays out in phases

After five years of working as a consultant in the international telecom sector, Julie Wolinsky (MBA 1998) left the full-time workforce to focus on family. (Published May 2015) View Details

November 1999
Case

Interactive Minds (B)

By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong, Christina L. Darwall and Scot H. Landry

Two recent Harvard Business School graduates start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet. View Details

Keywords: History; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Consulting Industry

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August 2002 (Revised March 2003)
Teaching Note

NerveWire (TN)

By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler

Teaching Note for (9-402-020), (9-402-021), and (9-402-022). View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Recruitment; Mission and Purpose; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Consulting Industry; Newton

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16 May 2017
Blog Post

Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering

We caught up with Andrea Coravos (HBS 2017) after a Q&A she did with the MBA Voices blog during her second year at HBS. Coravos reflects on her time at HBS and how she transitioned into digital health and engineering following a career in healthcare View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

Profile

Revital Gabay

things, people, and opportunities." She became an officer and served for four and a half years. "I stayed because I liked it. I worked with teams of engineers to solve ‘unsolvable’ technological problems." If there was a... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consulting; Consulting

02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

consulting before trying, failing, and trying again to succeed with the Flashfood app. Food waste wasn’t on Domingues’ mind until 2016, when his sister, a caterer, told him that she had to throw out $4,000 worth of leftover food from a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Technology

22 Oct 2013
News

Pulling the Plug

Eric Giler by Francis Storrs Standing on the stage of TEDGlobal in Oxford, England, WiTricity CEO Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is nervous. It's July 2009, and he's about to show how his company's technology can beam electricity through the air... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

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