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- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
on his company’s board. Good Start, which closed an $18 million Series A round of fundraising in September, will use advanced DNA sequencing technology for a pre-pregnancy test to more accurately screen for a range of potential genetic... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
research strategies and tools available,” he says. “The event was timed as an early evening event outside working hours and provided a valuable reminder to those of us in Europe that distance is not a barrier to using the Baker Library... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
stakeholders. Our group is very excited to be helping fine-tune the new required Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course, which gives students an opportunity to test what they are learning in the classroom in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
genes to the inner ear with unprecedented efficiency.” The five-year-old company will likely apply for clinical testing permission for its lead therapy in the first half of 2022—a key hurdle in the notoriously lengthy process of advancing... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies to better understand the issues. + ONLINE web-only content Do you see AI replacing the need for humans completely as it’s applied in certain value chain roles in the future? —Ian Grant Smith... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
and groundwork help police identify patterns and root out the problem: Most repeat shootings in an area actually come from a small number of repeat shooters. Maybe it’s a gang leader. Maybe it’s an illegal gun dealer using a backyard to View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Brian Franklin (MBA 2018) admits the prospect of partnering with Colgate-Palmolive to identify a strategy for marketing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
Above: Faction athlete Candide Thovex racks up millions of YouTube views while inspiring others to face their fears and try new things. (photo by Christoffer Sjöström) Faction athletes test gear in extreme locations for day-to-day use.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
short-term results with adherence to a long-term strategy and direction. At Cummins, we are driven by the concept of maximizing shareholder value -- but the question is, value over the next quarter or two, or over a longer period? Either... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
heavily in quality control and state-of-the-art equipment, a strategy that has helped him fend off competitors. A case in point is a Chinese company that launched a product similar to Aquamesh in 2000. “They tried to invade my market with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
a microentrepreneur borrows from a microfinance institution, such as ACCION International or Grameen Bank, to pay for a testing kit and eyeglass supplies. The entrepreneur, who also undergoes a one-week training session, will then be able... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
version first. Launch it to test real demand and to better understand usage patterns and segments. If it is successful, raising more capital for developing the digital shouldn’t be a problem. You can then position a more sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
will be assigned to work with companies in roughly a dozen different countries on the introduction of a new product or service. They’ll do a fair amount of advance preparation in Allston, and then during the January Term, they’ll travel to a company abroad to View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
test my limits and spark my sense of purpose. When the Peace Corps turned me down (it typically requires a college degree), I moved to Latin America. The experience blew open my sense of self and what I wanted to do with my life. Ever... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
federal, state, and school district levels to address these issues. The team’s first task was to determine the scope of the problem. They built a test to measure a school’s broadband speed, then partnered with state departments of... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Leonard and Lynn Paine, for helping him expand his thinking about the role of business and his own career approach. “Joe was very insightful,” he says. “He really helped me create a lifelong learning program for myself.” Crespin’s resolve and resiliency would be View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. For example, China has prospered because it emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is the the best strategy for fighting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
the BEI will host a conference for alumni in May 2023 and is exploring creating “learners’ networks” with alumni to share the teachings of the faculty and deepen relationships with alumni to develop a feedback loop. Such relationships help advance faculty members’... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
create informed, online test prep through Khan Academy. Free, accessible coaching, Khan reasons, will help “level the playing field”—giving every student, everywhere access to elite-level SAT coaching. J.R. Simplot’s White Russet is... View Details