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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
handling and has the least number of consumer complaints per passenger filed with the U.S. Department of Transportation. It gets its planes in and out of the gate faster than other major U.S. airlines and serves more passengers per... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
I've always loved to build things,” Murch remarks. “It's refreshing, especially after years of e-mail, meetings, and working on electronic stuff. High technology is so ephemeral. For all you know, what you work on today is going to be... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
based on their best efforts to forecast customer needs. With new technologies such as online grocery scanners, companies can better monitor consumer behavior, allowing them to anticipate needs more accurately and even create new products... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
(Above: photo by Christina Gandolfo) When Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) thinks about marketing her music, she thinks about it in consumer product terms. A feminist activist and former drummer for Grammy-nominated artist M.I.A., she wants her... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
partnership that has remained strong through three start-ups. Dubinsky and Hawkins built Palm Computing and made the PDA the most rapidly adopted consumer electronics product at that time. "The PalmPilot... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
colors. Electronic mail can be divided into two types: direct e-mail, which is distributed directly by marketers, and sponsored e-mail, in which an advertiser pays for text within a newsletter sent to subscribers. Direct e-mail, also... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
Above: Sid Misra (MBA 2013) cofounder, Perceptive Automata (Len Rubenstein; courtesy of Perceptive Automata) Amid the hubbub of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer product questions: Should the product be sold at big-box stores or through upscale specialty boutiques? (In the beginning, Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Bhusri, general partner, Greylock “After 9/11, do we want or need an ID card? From a technology stand-point, that’s a no-brainer. We need to get our act together first on policy and cultural issues.” — Mark Cleverley, senior consultant, IBM’s Institute for View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
the attention of consumers on the go, fresh bread fans, and people looking for a place to relax with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Expected to top $1 billion in sales this year, the publicly held Panera has also satisfied the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
Burlington, Vermont. “It is a simple, inexpensive, and straightforward solution to a complex problem.” Despite the fact that MedKaz is being used by patients, Bushkin’s biggest challenge is penetrating medical bureaucracy. Hospitals are busy struggling to meet View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
from the University of Washington and worked for Boeing, testing the 747 autopilot. His penchant for design led Hamilton to quit Boeing and launch the People Products Company, a consumer products outfit that had success with an invention... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
distinctive mission and to put in place the processes that will allow us to recognize and implement valuable new technology and then use it to develop powerful new applications as quickly as possible." "As we thought about what we wanted to be able to do right away -... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
a pioneer - in the process of capturing customer information, mining that information for value, and converting the information into shareable knowledge, which is then communicated among workers through robust electronic networks. For... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
As a way to delve deeper into the link between motivation and creativity, Amabile and her husband, psychologist Steven J. Kramer, conducted a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re not a View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
global poverty for some time. They believe that in pursuing its own self-interest in opening and expanding the BOP market, business can make a profit while serving the poorest of consumers and contributing to development. As Rangan... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
intense pricing wars by electronics chains and discount department stores destabilized account bases." Some record executives have admitted to losing touch with their audiences and to alienating consumers by... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso