Computers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

across the Charles from all the marches we were doing at the time and came to HBS, where we were 33 women in a class of 800.” Flex-time pioneer: “At Symbolics, the programmers worked all night and slept under their desks. I had two little children at the time, and they... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun

"Adults have a great time at Club Med, but especially for kids, there simply is no better place." He further observes that as people spend more time on computers on the job and at home, the greater their need to break away. "The more the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love

perfect date into a massive computer, on punch cards. The computer spit out the most compatible pairings. Neither company lasted long, but the computer- assisted dating model they promoted had a lot in common with the early days of the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

do and what not to do) so that the analytics actually makes a difference. Books on customer analytics exist mainly in two categories: academic texts, which discuss theoretical approaches to data analysis problems, and technical texts, which teach the statistics or... View Details

05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life

I'm generally in front of the computer pretty much at all times. So Excel on a laptop is a perfectly good vehicle. When I go on vacations when I don't have my laptop, then it's definitely harder to capture things, obviously. But, yeah,... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

Exchange. "The role of intellectual capital is more important in this business than any other, except perhaps the pharmaceutical and computer science industries. Oil is a hugely volatile commodity that very few people want to play in, so... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

technological innovations taking place in the life sciences, in clean tech, and in computer science that could profoundly reshape the business landscape. A third factor is regulation. Whether or not you like the regulatory reform that’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

28 Oct 2013
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The Federator

Keywords: Reva; Mahindra; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500 scene—first growing eBay from a staff... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

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

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