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- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
entrants, underscoring the growing level of interest and opportunities to address this critical issue. The winners of both the Tough Tech Prize and Alumni Track had innovative approaches to confronting the climate challenge: Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023) won the Tough... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
investing $4,000 in savings and a $12,000 loan to found Centennial One. A supplier gave her ninety days of credit on vacuum cleaners, buffers, and chemicals. With a secretary and twenty part-time employees, Lambert focused at first on... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
growing list of chores. With names like “Clean” and “Shiny,” they mop and scrub floors, disinfect handrails, vacuum carpets, and pose for selfies. Behind the scenes, the airport is adopting a predictive maintenance approach to cleaning.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
countries, and economic forces that shaped the infrastructure for an unprecedented new era of technology. Beginning with the vacuum tube in the 1920s and progressing through the inventions of the transistor, the integrated circuit, and... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
The passion for building businesses that began with Invacare almost three decades ago remains as strong as ever. "In the early 1980s, I helped a friend put together a deal to buy Royal Appliance, the maker of the Dirt Devil vacuum... View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Transistors had begun to replace vacuum tubes and represented what was known as the "second generation" of computers able to hold thousands of binary logic circuits within a compact design. Olsen and Anderson joined forces to create a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
counter-productive. The returning soldiers loyalties are suspect. We fear that many serve the Coalition by day and brief the rebels by night. Policy confusion and vacuum undermines confidence. The Coalition purged former apparatchiks,... View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Transistors had begun to replace vacuum tubes and represented what was known as the "second generation" of computers able to hold thousands of binary logic circuits within a compact design. Olsen and Anderson joined forces to create a... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
have to be affordable. “From day one, we said we would use common, off-the-shelf hardware—regular PCs and security cameras—to figure out how to solve the problem,” says Kundu. “We wanted to avoid the classic mistake of creating technology in a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
startups can come to Syngenta to test out their products and Syngenta gets free services. The coolest thing we saw was a robotic harvesting machine that identified the level of ripeness of a tomato via digital screening and machine learning, then View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
The computer age began some six decades ago with general-purpose machines with Star Wars-like names such as ENIAC and EDVAC. They were powered by vacuum tubes, big enough to fill an entire room, and developed by mathematicians under the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
profit for shareholders and directors. Pfeffer is also tired of seeing so-called leadership development services offered in a sanitized vacuum by a “leadership industry” under “brands” such as authentic leadership and servant leadership,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
outsiders, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is desired? No country can easily exist in a vacuum and cut itself off from the global economic marketplace, commented Spar. Given the complicated and often tragic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck Illustration by Zachary Pullen When Tom Oreck (OPM 26, 1998) took over the family vacuum cleaner business seven years ago, his biggest challenge was to transform the firm from an entrepreneurial “one-man band” founded by his father,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Bay area’s coastal location made Silicon Valley a natural hub for Naval and other government activity and funding. This helped foster several eras of technological development, beginning in the early 20th century with radio components and then later the View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
1970s. So, I wanted to address this vacuum and explore how firms operated in this richer, global setting. Q: What kinds of questions arise today for the CFOs and general managers of multinational firms? How does the book go about... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Home of the Oreck XL 8 lb. Upright Vacuum Profiles from the Class of 2006 Diversity & Ambition India Arrives Economic reforms and a young, entrepreneurial workforce have lifted India into the global economy and raised its hopes for social... View Details