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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
received their degrees (as did four newly minted Doctor of Business Administration graduates). In bidding the class farewell, Dean Kim B. Clark praised the students for their efforts and achievements. In particular, he noted the contributions of this year’s Dean’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
Nelson Repenning of MIT draws on firsthand observations of the meteoric rise and ultimate bankruptcy of a disguised Web-based company referred to as Notes.com. Using information gathered at management meetings during the company's brief,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Scott P. Mason Remembered
financial regulatory environments, to issues such as the allocation of capital within the financial firm. Born in Presque Isle, Maine, Mason graduated from the University of Maine in 1969. He received an MS in finance at MIT in 1972 and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
mathematics from Columbia University in 1966, Merton studied applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and earned an MS in 1967. In 1970 he completed a Ph.D. in economics at MIT and joined the faculty of the Sloan... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
generates more than $1 billion annually in ad revenues. That puts the Internet ahead of two long-established media sectors, network radio and billboards. In a new working paper titled "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry" (coauthored with HBS doctoral... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version of Watson showed off... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
Netscape research was documented in Competing on Internet Time, an earlier book by Yoffie and MIT colleague Michael A. Cusumano, and inspired Yoffie to pursue the concept further. After tracking references to judo in the management... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
day, where it is the focus of Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. “The world is now very excited about the possibility of curative medicines originating from CRISPR-Cas9 technologies invented at the Broad Institute,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Henderson Named University Professor
chair established in honor of the former HBS Dean and his wife. With an MBA (1985) and a PhD in business economics (1988) from Harvard, Henderson came to the School from MIT in 2009. She cochairs HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
That’s the imperative of the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator, established in 2016 with a $20 million gift from the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, led by Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), in partnership with HBS and the Broad Institute of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
needed. And chances are, the same interests that brought you to HBS will lead you to opportunities where that knowledge will be useful.” In an alternate universe, Harvard and MIT are playing against each other in football. Who do you root... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
end of the day, product managers are judged on execution and the quality of their launch. SS: Any advice for people who want to be a PM but don’t have a technical background? PR: I’m a computer and biomedical engineer by training, and spent two years working as a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing earned his Ph.D. from MIT in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
supplied fuel for generators, he learned that diesel costs $35 a gallon and that one US soldier is killed or wounded for every 24 fuel convoys, Wired.com reported (April 27, 2012). Now retired from the military, Naval Academy and MIT grad... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Robots to the Rescue
pick-and-pack system is concerned,” Mountz told the Boston Globe (October 20, 2005). An MIT graduate, Mountz launched Kiva Systems from his apartment in Palo Alto, California, in 2002, but he moved back to the Boston area two years later... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
not to divide topics into their relevance to another topic. You just don’t know where ideas will lead you.” “You can’t be fixated on one model of success...you have to adapt.” “You can’t be fixated on one model of success...you have to adapt.” Ideas led Simons to... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
several MIT professors, I cofounded Ceramics Process Systems Corporation, a technology company where I served as chairman and president until I earned my DBA and joined the HBS faculty in 1992. It was really my time with that company that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time management during a TEDx... View Details