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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
Consulting Group proposed an 11-point plan of regulatory reforms, technological advances, and infrastructure and workforce development. The goal: to realize the economic benefits of unconventional gas and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (where she continues to serve as a board member), Diniz had already launched a consulting business but was ready to move on. “I’m very results-oriented, very practical,” she says. “I wanted to invest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
electronics thrown away globally every year into a sustainable source of metals for the technologies of tomorrow. BlueOak represents just the sort of fresh thinking that has marked Bradoo's relatively short but notable career path. At age... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Care
MARCELO: "So much of the leadership is helping other people and being selfless." Frustrated by her inability to find high-quality care for her children, Sheila Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998/JD 1999), a former consultant and executive at... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
military, and consulting settings, Huckman has backed intuition with hard data. In a software services firm, for example, he found that when familiarity increased by 50 percent, defects decreased by 19 percent and deviations from budget... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
O’Donnell (Harvard Business Press) Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges, from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. Ultimately, a good IT manager... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
diversified technology company. For Hamilton, this marked the electronics-testing industry’s transition to mature market status — an unwelcome development. “I was bored,” he says. “It was time for a change.” “I said to myself, ‘I’m done... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
and the Harvard Kennedy School. The two-day event on the HBS campus drew 1,500 attendees from across the country for panels, workshops, a career fair, and the Pitch for Change business plan competition, where social entrepreneurs vie for cash awards and View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
likely change and then all of us will be thinking about water a lot. Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) knows that, and the company she founded, Artemis Water Strategy, is dedicated to finding technologies for companies and governments around the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience
impact people’s lives on a large scale,” he explains. “I’m excited about improving access to affordable health care globally and especially in South Asia, where I’m from.” As an undergraduate at the Birla Institute of Technology and... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
whom he’d known since high school. They were equally intrigued. “We thought, why don’t we use that technology to disrupt the grocery industry by bringing the same type of efficiencies to the supermarket?” Aguerrevere says. Last November,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
worries me how influential the movies are. The good news is that Ron Howard was committed to getting it right. Your thoughts on the U.S. space program today. Historically the program has had a big impact on society. Tangible benefits like View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
while for those in the industry, it is virtually synonymous with Goldberg himself. Recognized as the father of research and scholarship in the field, he is the author, coauthor, or editor of 23 books, more than 100 articles, and some 1,000 cases on the subject. He has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
embarked on a "steep learning curve" at Andersen Consulting in San Francisco, where he joined the company's Media and Entertainment division. Technology became his newfound passion at Andersen, leading him... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Long before HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani used crowdsourcing to develop pioneering research on the science of innovation, his experiences working at General Electric and the Boston Consulting Group piqued his curiosity about how such... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
tossed into landfills. So Eric Giler (MBA ’82) is working on a better plan: wireless technology in which devices are powered by electricity from remote energy-emitting coils. “It’s not electricity going through the air; it’s actually a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
deals with Bed Bath & Beyond, Frontier Airlines, and Johnson & Johnson. “You’re always asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing,” Riesenfeld remarks. The biotech... View Details
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