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14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

features. "Do I want my business phone to play music?" The key to living in a multiple-device life is a standard way of sharing information between devices, such as via data cards and network... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Print View - Course Catalog

collect data on everything including what happens inside our bodies and brains, new models of computing that can be orders of magnitude faster than today’s fastest computers in certain calculations, Brain... View Details

06 Jan 2021
News

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

are designed to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community. In addition, HBS now provides full-tuition scholarships to students with the greatest need, nearly 10 percent of the MBA Program's student body, View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 1999
News

Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

in Aldrich 108, "somewhat below the professor's sight line," Bricklin relates with a chuckle, "my mind wandered, and I imagined a sort of trackball on the bottom of the pocket calculator I was holding. I envisioned a computer screen on... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

After having an appointment at Carnegie Mellon University and having taught back at Stanford, I came to HBS in 1996. My intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance View Details

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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

from ancient DNA), extending health lifespans – ‘curing the disease of aging’. We also look at feeder technologies that act as accelerants to the core technologies. These include ubiquitous networks that collect data on everything... View Details

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

and company—from the benefits of liver pills to insurance company statistics—as well as general data about location, prices, terms of business, and sometimes a list of other... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

analyze financial data and create budgets; it also offers a public interface that opens a government’s books to its constituents. “If you want to see how much money your community spends on police, you can... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Feb 2021
News

A Playbook for Progress

your book, examining the experiences of more than 4,000 women across four races and generations, what did the data conclude around the way forward? Jacqui: Our findings seem to anticipate many of the most... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward

our graduates to lead in a rapidly changing world. HBS students must know how to both use and leverage emerging tools like artificial intelligence and digital technologies. This is why we have launched a new... View Details

17 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

“Since HBS, I have been intentionally inserting myself into businesses and technologies that have transformed humanity and the workplace as we know it today. In the late 1980s, I witnessed the PC revolution... View Details

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

selling its assets to E*Trade in early 2010. “I never set out to be the failure example in an HBS case,” he says. “But I think everything we do is part of who we are as people and professionals. Cake helped... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Holmes said. Data compiled by Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and Pinterest in 2014 showed that the number of female workers at those companies was typically 30 percent or less of the staff View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

price (about $400,000) would be significantly less. Initial models would be well suited for use in scientific computation and control applications... [T]his same basic computer will also be suited for use in business applications." 45 In... View Details

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

instrumental in setting up the Center. Sahlman has identified four characteristics that make the area unique: the rapid pace of change, a highly evolved infrastructure, a culture of entrepreneurship, and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

should be able to command more compensation, but never tried to see if that was true. So I decided to collect data on the executives in new ventures and on the ventures themselves, to see what the real story... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

two HBS grads) focused on solving the inefficiency and inaccuracy of ESG management processes for investors and companies. Their platform enables integrated reporting of climate, carbon, View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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