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- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
bits and bytes via Harvard’s computers. Marianna began in 1988, so she experienced the old green-on-black-screen Decmate before all alumni data were switched in 1990-91 to a new database, called Ace, which was custom-built at HBS with a slick Uniface GUI on a Sybase... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
consumer data, expect social platforms to grab media dollars from TV budgets and to drive e-commerce sales. Facebook continues to grow but look for Google to get more aggressive by leveraging YouTube and Google+." —Walter Delph (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management tool, and allows for... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
through floor-to-ceiling windows, and were entertained by mentalists who mingled with them during cocktails before dinner. "We go all out to make it a fantastic event at every level," says Vecchione. All funds raised from the dinner help the HBS Club of New York... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
discussion of "The Capitalist's Dilemma"—the challenges of innovating for long-term growth and job creation—in the Harvard Business Review. The team of more than 150 people (see below) collaborated using the OI Engine platform developed... 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”... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
loved one,” he recalls. “It was exactly what Jen and I envisioned when we turned everything over to MSK. We didn’t want it to be about us. We wanted to create a platform for other people to honor their own Jens. We believed that was the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(unlike most of Antares's for-profit partners) that operates in five Latin American countries. It combines microfinance with a primary health platform targeted toward low-income women. The Pro Mujer partnership demonstrates how Antares... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
remission, Somani drew on the lessons learned during that difficult time to launch an inspirational speaker platform called Silver Linings in an effort to champion resilience, advocacy, and mental wellbeing. Somani believes that silver... 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
- 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 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
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
point in time. We have a historic, twenty-year window of opportunity to become a truly developed country,” he observes, noting that Microsoft offers a unique platform for using technology as an educational tool to help close the gap... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
As a part of his campaign strategy for the Student Association presidency, Dobron took the unusual step of creating a team of four sectionmates to help him develop a platform based on issues of importance to the student body. Once... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
remarks Kourouma, a native of Ivory Coast. Inspired to solve this problem, in 2007 he launched Afric Xpress, whose mobile platform allows cellphone users—a population that the World Bank recently estimated as totaling 650 million and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
wanted to make a change that would provide a platform allowing me to remain an active investor, and where I could continue to play a meaningful, albeit less demanding, role." In addition, after he and his wife adopted a baby daughter in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg