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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
equipment. By 1979, that figure had increased by two orders of magnitude to $217.4 million. Fabrication facilities [“fabs”] were expensive. During the 1970s, the semiconductor industry became capital intensive. Manufacturing at Intel... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
development cycle used to be 24 months; it's now 12." Complementing this, he adds, is a knowledgeable sales force that fosters relationships with home-care providers, nursing homes, and medical equipment retailers; a wide assortment of finance options; and a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
unfiltered data: history, symptoms, test results, examination findings, and patient preferences. The surgeon’s job is essentially to distill this diverse information into a diagnosis and treatment plan. In the operating room, the process... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
approximately the equivalent of a year and a quarter of the average American’s carbon footprint. While it feels like a technological magic trick in an industry known for tradition rather than innovation, it may not even be the startup’s most impressive conjuring:... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first therapeutic sail, for eight disabled... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
how you ended up appearing on Shark Tank. It was a long process. We heard through the grapevine that they were reaching out to tech accelerators looking for interesting companies. So while they were in the process of casting, we... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
importantly, they are my neighbors, my colleagues, and my friends.” Gower sees few differences between effectively running a corporation and a local government office, although he thinks the business world could learn a thing or two from the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
like that. Maybe it’s making you navigate through a store in a way that’s not linear, making you linger and pause and consider, rather than an easy search-and-grab. If you think about the origins of Starbucks, it was a process filled with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
about, if you think about something as basic as wifi, or connectivity in a venue, laying that groundwork now is necessary to ensure fans feel safe, because there's a whole host of infrastructure investments that need to be made in order... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
2008, I decided to make the leap: I began the process of becoming a certified high-school math teacher. When D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee spoke to the HBS Club of Washington in October 2008, I introduced her, presented her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
to $40,000 a year. That was a high bar. So Clark switched to a subscription model: ShotSpotter would eat the upfront cost, operate the system itself, and charge cities an annual $65,000 per square mile for the service. And critically, it stopped taking View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
demonstrating the power of microfunding via the Internet. The concept packed such appeal that 150 requests from across the country poured in to expand Donors-Choose beyond its New York City base. Now what? The first order of business,... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
where they manage vampire customers in order to earn cash, pay off debt, and “save for their eternal retirement;” and in Refund Rush, gamers help clients decide how best to allocate their income tax refund. I sampled Groove Nation, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
approval process can add years to a drug's development. "My biggest source of frustration is the inability to move candidates into products more quickly," re-marks Mara Aspinall (MBA '87), president of Genzyme Emerging Technologies at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
transparency in the food industry, and the iterative process that created Clover’s different look and feel. READ MORE Julia Hanna: So how would you describe Clover Food Lab to someone who’s never been there before? Ayr Muir: At its most... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
it had to do with how to make it through the various government gateposts in order to obtain a license.” ANAND MAHINDRA with the Scorpio, Mahindra & Mahindra's popular entry in the SUV market. India's growing middle class is driving... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
pretty used to explaining what it takes to decarbonize the atmosphere. The basic science has been understood for nearly a century and the first movers in the sector got their start more than a decade ago. But the process is still a... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
high-tech approach to managing information on the soil composition of pastures and the quality and yield of beef from various genetic combinations. Each calf is tagged at birth and tracked through its life cycle. After it's been humanely slaughtered and View Details