Computers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue

million lives a year. EMRI is the brainchild of Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993), the founder and chairman of Indian IT and consulting powerhouse Satyam Computer Services. The inspiration for EMRI came from his travels for Satyam, which,... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved (degenerated?), I believe someone used the computer lab’s... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

study of companies in Western countries. But while innovation was the most important driver of high performance among the corporations in the Western economies, in Asian companies the key element was how customer-oriented firms were. That prompted View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

Professor of Business Administration. "There are many challenges for firms in figuring out how to position themselves," notes Crane, who has taught finance and banking at HBS for many years. As consumers get more accustomed to using their View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 May 2013
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Education Without Limits

Keywords: onling learning; videos; tutorials; Khan Academy; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work

Greenwich in recognition of its community programs. The HBS African-American Alumni Association has a long-standing relationship with the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Academy in the South Bronx. Whether it’s working with Dell to provide classroom View Details

Keywords: alumni clubs; Centennial; Educational Services

01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break data bottlenecks and speed up DNA... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management

for information. "The whole point of this segment of the course was to say: 'Let's come down from the mountaintop and talk about how real managers get the work of the organization done,'" says Garvin, who decided that for this exercise the View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Oct 1997
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New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence

participants - in similar positions in a broad range of businesses. Offered for the second time last spring, TGM brought together 43 senior-level general managers from more than a dozen countries, representing industries such as mining, textiles, View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2001
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Faculty News

work in long-term planning under risk and uncertainty ranged from helping to pioneer computer applications at large companies to charting U.S. space policy as a member of a Presidential task force. Meyer, a 1953 graduate of Harvard... View Details

Keywords: reunions; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

odds and get better. (Editor's note: Wang suffered a stem cell stroke in 2010 and is a quadriplegic mute with "locked-in syndrome." She uses eye-tracking technology to communicate by computer and to operate a motorized wheelchair. Wang... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock

Sleepyheads, Beware: An alarm clock that doesn’t mess around. Photo courtesy Nanda Home Related Links Watch Nanda explain Clocky See Tocky, the newest product Purchase the original Clocky case Purchase the "Life After Clocky" case In the spring of 2005, media outlets... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind projects. “Most of these... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Your Keyboard Is Listening

computer to monitor typing patterns. (Data on what is typed is not recorded.) Then, each time the person uses that computer, information is uploaded to NeuraMetrix, where it is analyzed for inconsistencies. Because the amount of data... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four

to unplug. Decker Susan Decker (MBA ’86) came straight to HBS from Tufts University, where she majored in economics and computer science. As an analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Decker covered Yahoo!, a company she would join as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

littered with papers and a full email in-box glaring at him from a flat-screen computer monitor, Marietta pauses for a moment to consider the bewildering array of tasks he has had to manage since coming to Pine Mountain. At no juncture,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Sep 2018
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Turning Point: Power Outlet

walked over to my computer and created a Facebook group called Moms of Black Boys (MOBB) United. I sent invitations to 30 friends. Five minutes later the 30 had grown to 150. In an hour it was 500. When I was at the grocery store that... View Details

14 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

said, "As you look at some of the challenges that confront us as a society, one of those is the accelerated pace at which technology is moving– from data and quantum computing to the metaverse and blockchain. How do we, as a school and as... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real

from initial research phases, to brainstorming, to concept development and prototyping. The results? A car that might feature a personalized hood ornament and an interior with pulsating floor lights, customized seat covers, and an onboard View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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