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- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
small robotic aircraft to deliver essential medical products, first asked Ayala to help her assemble and vet the board for Endeavor Philippines, and he happily agreed. “That then turned into, ‘Well, can you help me find somebody to run... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
self-driving cars to robots mopping up spills at the grocery store. As computer systems increasingly perform tasks that people once did, the implications for business are enormous. Although more than 80 percent of executives believe AI... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
bedroom. "Our stores are fun again," he says, pointing to an elevator decked out to look like a movable robot and whimsically dubbed "Go-2-Floor-2." The improvements that he and his relatively small staff of fifty have made in store... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
technology management, and robotics to simplify and automate support activities. He also addressed dilemmas about whether to allow each division to adopt innovation at its own pace or institute it simultaneously company-wide, and the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
many guests commented on how innovative that was. Then we had an interesting debate on how insurance company AIA would look at a mistake made by UBTech’s robots in the factory. Whose fault is it? UBTech painted a picture for us that View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Six drone companies put their wares in the air during Making Robotics Fly, a daylong event cohosted by HBS and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to explore the intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Japan was most competitive internationally — such as cars, video products, and robotics — government played a relatively minor role. By contrast, the country was least competitive in industries such as chemicals, aircraft, and software... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Elevator Pitch: First Byte
March, the company announced $5.5 million in funding. COVID-aware: “Our business model is CapEx light; business owners pay on a commission basis for every meal the robot makes, which alleviates a lot of risk. And in terms of health and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
require assistance at any point in the airport can use digital screens with video-calling functionality to connect with a virtual ambassador service to have their questions answered. The terminals—with more than one million square meters of flooring—are kept clean by a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
percent is spent on labor. Those factors inspired Andersen to found Augean Robotics (AGR), makers of an autonomous farm robot called Burro, which has the carrying capacity of a sure-footed donkey and the... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
building robots and doing things that help the world both locally and globally. “I think what HBS did for me was [that it] began to make me a global thinker and a thinker about large problems and strategies for getting from one place to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
that could cost a company several months of time, hundreds of millions of dollars, or both. Later, working as a product manager for a robotics and automation startup after HBS, McLemore realized that the problem wasn’t unique to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Precision Agriculture (BOPA) Rugged aerial and terrestrial weeding robots that also take soil samples Farmshare A digital marketplace that provides small-scale meat processors with automation tools to streamline their workflows HerdDogg A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that manages to steer clear of that fate.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
computing to social impact bonds, from industrial robots to personal finance, from Internet retailing to Internet radio—a plethora of products and services that could well bear the stamp “Made by HBS.” View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
Walsh spoke about creating wearable robotic equipment to help people with physical disabilities, and HBS professor Lauren H. Cohen outlined research focusing on “patent trolls” that sue cash-rich companies for patent violations. Ongoing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
something new, which shows that you can’t create a computerized system with all the answers, not yet. There are human factors and emotions involved beyond the probability statistics. But that’s what makes this work fascinating—otherwise we would have View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
investment outlook in the region, and was moderated by Blair Pickerell (MBA 1984), Former Chairman, Asia of Nikko Asset Management and Chairman of Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong. Robotics concept wins HBSAHK Startup... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
prototype PalmPilot, consumers—and investors—were giving up on handheld devices. Just as the pair were running out of options, U.S. Robotics saw their potential and offered to buy Palm and help them deliver their first model. While some... View Details