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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
zones so that traffic could be run more safely and efficiently. The first rudimentary boxcars and (open-air) wooden passenger benches were also transformed. By the 1870s, prosperous travelers slept and dined in Pullman Palace Cars... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- News
Stopgap Schooling
traffic to his site had spiked 50%. ‘There are 1 billion children around the world who are suddenly out of school,’ he says. ‘We’re a stopgap.’” Based in Mountain View, California, Khan Academy had 18 million students using the site every... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
amazing for India. Falls are a leading cause of emergency calls, but traffic accidents are also a huge problem. India has only 1 percent of the world’s vehicles but accounts for 6 percent of the world’s View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
them on YouTube?’ And I said, ‘No, YouTube is for cats playing piano. It is not for serious mathematics.’ Slowly the traffic picked up and you fast forward to 2008, 2009 and several tens of thousands of people were using the site every... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
Recently, I successfully appealed and overturned a ruling handed down against me by the State of Massachusetts. After being found at fault for a minor, non-injury traffic accident, I challenged the decision, hoping to reverse it and... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
Growing up in Calcutta, Delhi, and Bombay, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria experienced urban life at its most extreme — cities so full of people and traffic that it was impossible to imagine they could grow any larger. At a conference on... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Anthony Harris Photo courtesy of Anthony Harris by Francis Storrs On April 14, 2013, a sheriff's deputy pulled over a truck cruising down Interstate 55 in Mississippi. What started as a routine traffic stop became more serious when the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
test network software and hardware by injecting impairments like errors or delays into network traffic on fiber-optic or copper cable. If you are an equipment maker or network manager, you can use our product to make sure your routers or... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
women - has climbed well above the competition. With some two million visitors to its Web site each month, iVillage attracts more than twice as much traffic as its nearest competitor. "We've established a commanding lead," Carpenter... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
schools, health-care system, or electricity. Even today, in a country whose capital has only one traffic light, our route over the breathtakingly narrow mountain passes required all our drivers’ considerable skill and patience. We... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
the pandemic. In addition to changes in dining services and traffic flow, Simkin also details the in-classroom updates. “A new camera in the back of the room allows for more instinctive and natural eye contact from the professor,” she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
audio a few weeks later. But she realized that the approach was missing an opportunity to translate that excitement into actual audio sales—it was marketing product unavailable for purchase. And it didn’t have a shelf life: “YouTube videos can drive View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
employment and something productive to do while they are at home. We've seen a 50 percent increase in traffic in the past month. HBS: What type of COVID-19-related information are people looking for? Gaglani: Our most popular video is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
traffic congestion, which is public enemy number one on passenger car fuel efficiency. The second thing we could do is address our agricultural food distribution system. If we went back to localized farming, it’s amazing how we could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
wake up, read the news, and then check my traffic and see what’s happening on the Time Inc. sites.” News sources: “I’m on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Apple News all the time.” Print indulgence: Reading People magazine, a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
gets—at CES and elsewhere—is “‘When will this be real?’ I tell them, ‘It’s real today.’” There are autonomous vehicles on the road, he notes. They aren’t driving through traffic in New York or Boston yet, but they will be. And when they... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
couple of years will see more experimentation with baggage pricing. The success of Emirates is due in part to the fact that airline, airport, and air traffic control work together under one “boss” shareholder—ultimately owned by the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
many WEBSE business models. To succeed, Austin argues, WEBSEs must execute effective strategies in three key areas. For driving traffic to the site, he uncovered two primary models: WEBSEs can generate the View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
traffic retail locations, that will help consumers trial, discover, and ultimately make more informed choices about their most important purchase decisions in health, wellness, beauty, and household—and now we are taking steps to bring... View Details
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
movie sound tracks from the 1940s and ’50s), gospel music, a duo concert by the She-E-Os and Heard on the Street (HBS’s own student a capella groups), and jazz. Rishi recalls no concert catastrophes more serious than a tenor being delayed in winter View Details