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- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
says. One was Fisher’s 2011 launch of WaterRev, an investment company focusing on technologies for sustainable water-use practices. Another idea, currently in early pilot testing, is FitMoney, a nonprofit... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Whether she's participating in privatization efforts in Central Europe or working with technology startups in Cambridge, Scott thrives on helping bring focus to chaotic, fast-paced environments. Scott shared her entrepreneurial talents at... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
Just as radio revolutionized the entertainment world at the turn of the century, satellite broadcasting, the Internet, VCRs, and new communications technologies are transforming the entertainment industry, said Universal Studios chairman... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Impact Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard with HBS professors George Serafeim and Peter Tufano. Key takeaway: “Many companies are racing to invent, finance, scale, and deploy View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices for commodities fell to their lowest levels since the financial crisis, sending mining View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
there was a lot more experimentation earlier, in terms of letting people be at home, but now you can see more large establishments requiring folks to come back. I’ve been talking to the largest technology firms about this: They’ve created... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Online Job Bank Debuts
bank’s listings include part-time work and temporary consulting assignments suitable for people at any career stage. The job bank plans to reach out to the Fortune 500 and other companies to inform them of its services and to increase its... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
receiving a Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship from HBS in 2021, DeBere received one in 2020, which enabled him to serve as a research intern for OpenUp, a civic technology company based in South Africa... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
with is how to make the in-stadium experience as valuable, or more valuable, than that of someone sitting at home in front of the television,” says Mariner, senior advisor for Imagination Park, a company focused on augmented reality... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
one of London's leading investment banks, Mueller took a deep breath and punched in the name of an obscure Polish company about which the bank needed information. There was a hit, then another. Soon, no fewer than 87 separate items, from... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
literature about how to go do that. And that was just going to prove to myself that the technology could work and was viable. DM: Turns out it was. I'm Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and this is the third and final episode of Clearing the... View Details
- 11 May 2018
- News
Nigerian Tech Startup has Local—and Global—Impact
the future I think, ultimately, we are creating an economy in the technology industry which is going to spark a massive revolution on the continent. And I am seeing it happen every day. So the impact we have, and the impact I can have as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
to make fufu, a thick paste used in various recipes—was originally produced for the African market and is now available at 50 supermarkets around the world. STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES The View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Web-based technologies. Recent HBS research has focused on a number of companies led by these pioneering senior executives. The profiles that follow shed some light on the challenges they face and reveal the extent to which the... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
they worked so hard to bake. If the company becomes the next Facebook, says Professor Josh Lerner, that’s all well and good. If not, “you might be better off with 100 percent of the smaller pie.” In addition, says Lerner, the standard VC... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 08 Aug 2019
- News
Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site
In the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince (MBA 2009) announced that his web performance and security company was terminating service for the 8chan message board—an online forum where the alleged shooter... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews were often less than welcoming. Since those early engineering days, Kovatch has held multiple roles... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
companies will have no alternative but to confront the language issue as they extend their global reach. “If they don’t have a language strategy, they’ll regret it,” she says. “One of the most powerful ways to compete globally is to make... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
startups taking advantage of this new opportunity, with the traditional giants - American Express, IBM, and Microsoft, for instance - also getting into the act. Brodia, an e-commerce company dedicated to simplifying online shopping for... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross