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- 28 Jan 2022
- News
How Companies Are Using Tech to Give Employees More Autonomy
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
every 350,000 times. DM: And it's always against the Mets. CM: Exactly. So, you know, I think that's the starting point. And what we've been paying attention to, the technology's there. It's so funny to see, when I first got involved in View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
questions about the design and placement of the bins, but the results are not yet in. What’s more, while sanitation workers currently heave the city’s trash into their trucks by hand (a fact that has earned them the sobriquet “New York’s Strongest”), containerization... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
what is okay and what is not okay,” she says. Despite several well-funded competitors, Shruti is betting on ApnaKlub’s “human” approach in an increasingly automated world of customer service. “We stay close to our customers,” she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
a post office, the Coop, a travel center, and automated bank-teller machines. The top floor of the building will house over twenty "project rooms," sized for meetings of up to ten people and equipped with technology and media service... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
whose tools help developers accelerate blockchain development by automating the generation of back-end and client code, documentation, and testing. Jean-Philippe Emelie Marcos, MBA 2001, CEO & Founder Region: Western US/Northern... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
have automated things, and the old-timers who had it all in their heads leave. Vital human resources that disappear, and they scramble to figure out what to do. So I think that automation comes with its... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Seattle business leaders got where they are. The club also hosted truck manufacturer PACCAR’s CTO, John Rich (MBA 1999), who spoke on electrifying and automating US shipping, and Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, who talked about a wide... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
clean, and industrious” will reach the top when, in reality, only a fortunate few ever do. Perhaps this knowledge contributes to an unarticulated restlessness that afflicts these decent men (often Wharton, not HBS, grads). Perhaps it is the nature of the work itself,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
institutions, he says, and small-business lending is one of the least automated parts of the U.S. banking system. That means it relies mostly on commercial bankers making personal judgments about borrowers. Ballard says when his father... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
Highway As cities reshape themselves and populations increase, demand for goods will rise. And if the pandemic taught us anything about supply and demand, it’s that the trucking system—once largely unnoticed—can become a real bottleneck. Cheng Lu (MBA 2010), president... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 24 Apr 2014
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Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
orders. Kiva’s distribution center automation technology simplifies operations and reduces costs while increasing flexibility. When orders are received, hundreds of autonomous mobile robots are directed by a complex software application... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Looking to the East
studied at Tokyo University, is president and CEO of Fanuc India, an arm of Japan-based Fanuc, a world leader in factory automation and robots. Kulkarni was invited by the Indian government to participate in the meeting because of his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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Gibson Hits a High Note
automate production a while back and discovered that nothing beats old-fashioned handcraftsmanship. But there is nothing old-fashioned about the new digital guitar that Gibson recently launched. It’s the biggest change in guitar design in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach
perform automated scans of its clients’ systems for the duration of their policies, finding and plugging security holes as they appear. With approximately 14,000 customers and 2,000 more signing up each month, the company performs roughly... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand