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Paul V. Galvin
Creating the Motorola car radio, Galvin emerged as the premier producer of car radios in the 1930s. Galvin also invented the walkie-talkie, producing some 40,000 during World War II. In 1947, Galvin introduced the first practical television set under $200, helping... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Lawrence J. Ellison
Ellison founded the second largest software company in the world – building the first commercially viable relational database. Oracle applications power more business-to-business and administrative systems than any other software provider. Through his company, Ellison... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Richard J. Egan
Egan co-founded EMC and built it into the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory storage devices. Between 1979 and 1986, EMC’s revenues doubled each year catapulting it into the Fortune 500 in less than 10 years. View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
James H. Clark
Clark is considered a serial entrepreneur. In 1982, he founded Silicon Graphics, which became a leading provider of three-dimensional computer graphic applications. First used by architects and designers, Silicon Graphics’ applications were deployed in the... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
electronics devices to Amazon’s online storefront. HBS would continue to play a role in Amazon’s development, with the article noting that two of Amazon’s earliest acquisitions included local companies founded by Warren Adams (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
became an online business, and seven to eight years later we’re the largest search engine for out-of-school enrichment for students in middle and high school. We have licensing agreements with national partners like Hobsons; we publish six different guides, both View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
productive automatic interactions. To understand the goals of this effort, and the extent of current difficulties (even in this relatively IT-enabled industry), it is worth quoting extensively from the RosettaNet website's Executive Overview: The View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
markets, from regulations to a demanding customer base that includes individuals, institutions, and broker/dealers. To meet these challenges, he said, the New York Stock Exchange has become "a very electronic market" whose... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
group. "A large measure of our success is based on the tremendous legacy of support for our mission from enterprising alumni like you. We see OPM as a very important part of where the School is going in the next century." The next day, Associate Professor John J.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Legacy
Generators from Japan. India had power shortages; I became the largest importer of generators in the world in three years. I was all of 23, 24 then. “I imported India’s first push-button phone. And phones were not allowed to be imported. But View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
lower-cost venues of care more capable that health care becomes affordable, not by expecting large hospitals to charge less. Q: Could you give an example of a technological innovation that you think will have great impact? A: The advantages of View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
products." After graduating from Yale and working two years at the Philadelphia National Bank, Dubinsky came to HBS, where a presentation of the first electronic spreadsheet helped shape her career path. "I knew immediately that this was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
weeklong commencement and reunion activities, she recalls, “I had nearly two dozen events, involving hundreds of guests. But it's not always like that, and there's not a piece of it I would change.” A onetime McKinsey consultant, Mills holds several directorships... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
modest tuition. “I used to have thrills when doing multimillion-dollar business deals,” says Crane. “Now, when I make a $10,000 loan, it’s a jewel.” The former president and CEO of the electronic database publisher COMPS InfoSystems,... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
In some sense, we have a mismatch between the technical needs for integration and the organizational structures which have emerged.— Gary P. Pisano Interfaces are either messy or clean. The electronics industry, for example, has devised... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
distinctive mission and to put in place the processes that will allow us to recognize and implement valuable new technology and then use it to develop powerful new applications as quickly as possible." "As we thought about what we wanted to be able to do right away -... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
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3.1 Student Accounts | MBA
receive notifications of bills by e-mail and can view their student account using their Harvard Key. Payments may be made electronically or by check. Credit cards are not accepted. Charges for tuition and fees and all other charges such... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
experimented with computers and with designing an electronic office of the future. It formed Xerox Computer Services, acquired Scientific Data Systems, and opened its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California. These efforts were only... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
are now housed inside a renovated leather factory in Boston's North End. Now boasting two thousand subscribers, FairMarket held its first auction last December, selling $100,000 worth of computer merchandise. Eventually, Randall hopes to auction other products, such as... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
there are some managers who don't want to take the time to fill out a simple form," he says, "but it really doesn't take that much effort." The electronic reports get to customers up to two weeks faster and save Aetna... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni