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- 01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
program of activities that included lively classroom and small-group discussions and videotaped interviews with students. Alumni could mingle informally with students - over breakfast as well as lunch - and continue conversations begun on... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Africa's challenges, Sachs noted that the fates of the temperate and tropical zones are intrinsically linked, that information technology will be a tremendous help in overcoming many difficulties, and that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
computer to monitor typing patterns. (Data on what is typed is not recorded.) Then, each time the person uses that computer, information is uploaded to NeuraMetrix, where it is analyzed for inconsistencies. Because the amount of data... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market. “Although not a scientist... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Hawes Hall Dedicated
Chase The building features 2,000 square feet of informal gathering space on each floor. Photo: Edward Jacoby Following lunch at the Dean's House members of the Hawes family went next door to see the new building, which is adjacent to the... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
complete information about Africa,” Clarke says, “the ignorance will dissipate. I think the desire to engage with Africans becomes real.” Clarke launched the site in 2010, giving up the certainty and rewards of her position as a managing... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
addressed one of four topics: different models of consumer-driven health care; the role of consumer-driven health care in supporting innovative solutions to chronic problems in the industry; the new breed of consumer information and... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
that's based on a fundamental discontinuity in technology and a unique non-consensus insight into how that's going to change the world, fold. Look for another one. Wait for another hand. Find something that has those characteristics and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
(VIS '79), director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology in Johannesburg and longtime president of the HBS Club of South Africa, recalls how during the apartheid era, HBS alumni helped the country's business community to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Marketing After the Recession This downturn has likely changed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
regulations to keep up with financial innovation, spurred by technology and globalization of markets, explains Moss. Over time, a huge amount of financial activity migrated away from regulated and transparent markets and institutions and... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990). Woolley-Wilson traces her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
activities than scanning a résumé for six seconds—which is what the average recruiter does,” she says. But just as important as efficiency to companies like Unilever is the diversity of applicants that Pymetrics delivers—a trait unique to the company, says Polli,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
prod corporations to put some of their remarkable cash hoards to productive use. Estimates of the cash held by U.S. public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
San Francisco. It focused on two areas where Doerr would soon have tremendous influence: information technology and science-based business. “The main thing we do— that we’ve always done—is build upon the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business news. And I’m no stranger to the type of investment decisions... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Future Source
Seni Sulyman (MBA 2014) wants to rescript Africa’s role in the world. “For too long the continent has been seen as a place people give things to,” he says. “I want to connect Africa to the world on equal terms.” As vice president of global operations at tech company... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
Mustard Mills. The Plochman recipe for stone-ground mustard, for example, hasn't changed much in the last one hundred years, but the technology involved in making it demonstrates 21st-century expertise. "Things happen much more quickly,"... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
call center. There are three different components: emergency management, research, and an institute. The first is the most immediately transformative. Using sophisticated software developed by Satyam, 108 operators use GPS and mobile View Details