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- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
precomputer times: on 8x5-inch alphabetized cards, one per alum, filling buckets set in five-foot-long deep trays placed on four revolving shelves, like cars on a very wide, miniature (about 4 ½ feet tall), electrically operated Ferris... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
from home after leaving the corporate world in 2004. When her workload overwhelmed her, she got some friends involved. “I realized that there were many other people who had the same need for flexibility,” O’Kelly says in a phone interview... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
M-Paisa—there was the question of establishing any cell phone service at all. A little over a decade ago, Afghans had two options for making a call: walk across the border to another country, including Pakistan or Tajikistan, or use an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Busy…Very Busy
conversations, file cabinets opening and closing, and other office goings-on. Aside from conveying over the phone the aura of a successful enterprise, his virtual, aural workplace has another benefit, Freund believes. “A lot of people... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
company. You have to play the right card at the right time.” His car phone rings. It’s Marie, back at the factory. They’re down a worker for tomorrow’s schedule, and she’s having trouble finding a replacement. That morning, the problem... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
my hat to Karim Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) for the leadership he has demonstrated at Roshan. This is how hearts and minds are truly won. I might add, public outcry has never been a concern of the Taliban. The Taliban have stopped destroying the cell View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
ready-to-heat soups, shipping an average of thirty thousand gallons each week. Shafir - himself a study in constant motion - plans to move his operation to a roomier location in nearby Chelsea early this year. Despite adding a $2.5... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
one, though, the innovations that seemed to open up new ways of reaching voters by phone lost their effectiveness—falling victim to caller ID, do-not-call lists, and voter exhaustion with once-novel tactics like robocalls and candidate... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
After nearly nine years in a series of marketing and strategy roles at Samsung—where he logged approximately 2.5 million air miles and earned status as a “permanent resident” of Korea—Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008) made the leap to Electrolux Group Chief Marketing... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
economics graduate from Duke University, he was just three days away from launching a Wall Street career when the phone rang. Marilyn Quayle, the mother of a varsity lacrosse teammate, called to ask Flannery to be chief aide to her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)
daily basis, however, he is focused on operations and loves the energy of commercial challenges. “I am more of an execution-under-pressure type than a chess player,” he says. “I’ve seen too many strategies fail due to poor execution—and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Katrina knocked out operations at the New Orleans headquarters and the Long Beach plant, pushing the business to the brink. Advanced planning saved vital data and operations, but Oreck credits employees with actually saving the company.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
resources." Michael P. Cassidy (MBA '91), general manager of the Computer Telephony Product Group at Artisoft, Inc., a maker of tools that connect phones to computers, took these lessons to heart when he created his own company, Stylus... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
organization’s operations more efficient through strategic improvement projects, thus allowing salauno to better serve its patients. Leger’s passion for social impact was itself borne of growing up a citizen of the world. Born in France,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
2015 with three tiny houses in the southern New Hampshire woods, Getaway now offers 89 escapes in areas less than two hours from Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, with the goal of expanding to three new markets in the coming year. Getaway’s message? Put your View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
adding that ticket prices can climb to $250 for some high-demand performances. “In the box office, we heard people on the phone shouting to their friend, ‘We pay that for Celtics tickets, we can pay it for the ballet!’ ” READ MORE Kara... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company... View Details