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- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
Courtesy Meaghan Fitzgerald How did you become interested in virtual reality (VR)? “I have always been a fan of sci-fi and future tech. VR seemed to hold this promise of being something between a... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
School, and the world as we confront the realities of climate change and its associated responsibilities and opportunities for the business community. BEI faculty chair Mike Toffel looks forward to his continued partnership with Lynn,... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
therefore establish a "relationship" that allows them to maintain contact with their customers over the long term. Recognizing this new reality and dealing with it proactively is the single most important dimension of enterprise... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
ahead. But they had virtually no experience in the roles of government and private sector in creating a dynamic economy. Putting Myanmar in perspective, it's the size of Texas, and it has a population of 54 million-- same as California... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
how fast it should be moving. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817127-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-405 Virtual Reality and the Gaming Sector 2017 This brief note... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
networks of networks. Currently, he said, universities and labs use it to connect researchers working on collaborative projects. These projects can range from building virtual reality models of the ear—a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
continue to evolve. Performance improves and prices drop. Today, artificial intelligence is used in the selection of retail sites and to facilitate one-to-one marketing programs; voice recognition routes callers to specific store departments; View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
“because there were virtually no General Motors vehicles there, which meant no spare parts or maintenance available,” Goodwin recalls. Ultimately, politics won out, and the ambulance was shipped, but Goodwin knew it provided no benefit to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
so many, I thought practicing medicine would be similar to what I saw on Scrubs or Grey’s Anatomy, where you’re presented with an immense diversity of medical problems to solve through brand-new, exciting, innovative procedures. But the View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
today, Levitt’s article caused a minor sensation when it first appeared. Apart from its insightful specifics, its language (“globalization” was a novel term) and expansive vision offered a hopeful alternative to the grim reality of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
governance and management and citing examples of executives' tendency to avoid reality when times get tough. Maritime Piracy by Robert Haywood (MBA 1977, DBA 1979) and Roberta Spivak (Routledge) After summarizing the historical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
algorithms. So much richer, in fact, that my engagement with a particular brand might be very different than yours, because it’s customized to each of us. I can also imagine this predictive learning being combined with new user experiences, such as augmented View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
business focused on seniors. “The insight is that, at some point, seniors will be comfortable with video chat—and lo and behold, COVID-19 has really proven that to be the case. That’s an example of the myth being upended by the reality of... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
interact in this new ecosystem—and the long-term viability of the sector. Tiffany Norwood (MBA 1994) is reconsidering the whole gaming experience as cofounder of Emortal Sports. The fledgling video game publisher is developing several View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
enormous pressures of his job and deploy the full range of management skills, savvy, and perseverance that he was hired to bring to what is truly a remarkable civic effort. On its first try (a virtually unheard-of accomplishment),... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
“Supercomputing has opened up massive innovations in nuclear startups by allowing us to simulate the inside of a nuclear reactor for a mere $200 million instead of $6 billion!” As new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
bad results. If this premise seems plausible, then we should ask: Have recent declines in startup valuations and VC investments have been big enough to elicit another threat-rigidity response? Probably not—at least not yet. But when bright shiny objects—akin to today’s... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
innovative, social value-creating activity that can occur within or across the nonprofit, government, or business sectors. While virtually all enterprises, commercial and social, generate social value, fundamental to this definition is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley