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- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
have the skills that you don’t,” she said. In the end that included experts and officials in clinical development, manufacturing, and delivery. “I also added people from government with defense procurement and defense delivery capability, to deal with a highly complex... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
decisions on the ground. It’s also testing a diagnostic app that relays data from the site of an emergency to the hospital to save time and, perhaps, lives. Fortunately there’s been only one fire since implementation and one opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
an effective biomarker—a kind of test that could measure the progression of ALS over a short period of time—did not yet exist. Without it, drug trials relied on longer, more costly observations of disease progression. Next, collaboration... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and test new product possibilities.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
will expand on it by recruiting organizations interested in participating in rigorous testing of the feasibility, scalability, and effectiveness of different approaches. The research output of the lab will be valuable to organizations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
includes a dozen years at General Foods, “our strengths were highly flexible assets and a deeply skilled workforce. Our niche clearly was in products where skilled cheese making was more important than capital investment for high throughput.” Based on that assessment,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
(but growing!) company, which means that every day is a new adventure. On the ‘typical’ side, there are the must-dos: order fulfillment, customer service, and paying the bills. Beyond that, on any given day we could be negotiating with a distributor from Indonesia,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
"Pilots Push 787 Dreamliner to the Limit" - Watch some take-offs and landings best left to the test pilot professionals. "Capturing the Birth of the Dreamliner" - Photographer Ed Turner documented the global effort of manufacturing the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
well, but it was manual, requiring several redesigns and tweaks to perfect the models. It was frustrating. So Sabin designed a machine learning program that would test all of various parameters of club head design, iterate countless... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
school, it had the biggest improvement in English test scores among all middle schools in the city and the biggest uptick in math scores in the state. "We've had a strong start," says Given. "Our schools are high-performing schools, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chairman of the privately held S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (more popularly known as SC Johnson Wax), thinks of the story as more than a charming anecdote. "In my dreams I fantasize that someday Johnson Wax will be able to conduct a white-flannel View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Straus Professor of Business Administration MIT Press Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
MBA and AMP programs, details the challenges faced by Woolworths (unrelated to Woolworth, the U.S. company), a major South African retailer poised to test its mettle as an international competitor. "The case is about building a unique... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
testing a number of hypotheses around how best to build opportunities there,” says Breyer. Looking ahead, HBS professor Josh Lerner predicts that a small number of global firms soon will dominate the venture-capital industry, while niche... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
the network, that’s easy, calls the bad guys. They type their way in, and all of a sudden the data starts to fly. I don’t know this for a fact, but I’ll bet you they had policies that said the HVAC network should not talk to the corporate. They couldn’t View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
inherent, universal desire, one that the beauty industry meets and manipulates. Passing the Smell Test The broadest level of globalization remained in toiletry brands. Toiletries were the only category other than perfume in which foreign... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
these “dogmas” was that memory was Intel’s “technology driver.” Because memory devices were easier to test than other Intel products, they were traditionally the products that were debugged first. The lessons learned could then be applied... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
revenue.) The exchange and nearby buildings were checked for safety and cleaned up, power was reestablished, and computer systems tested and retested over the weekend. On Monday, September 17, Lhota stood by as the bell rang to open the... View Details