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Frank T. Cary

Following the legacies of Watson Sr. and Watson Jr., who ran IBM for almost 60 years, was no easy feat, but Cary more than proved his mettle. Under his direction, IBM expanded into new markets outside its traditional mainframe business into personal computers, graphic... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

consumer. In all these sectors of the industry, Tufano and the others agree, an increasingly important force is entering into the mix: the Internet. The Electronic Brokerage Still riding a "second burst" during the extended 1980s -1990s... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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

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Raghu Yarlagadda

Most electronic devices come with cautionary labels warning users against the dangers of opening the box. Fortunately, as a youth growing up in India, fascinated by televisions, Raghu Yarlagadda ignored the warnings and looked inside. He... View Details

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library materials. Library proxy access to electronic library resources requires both an HBS email address and faculty sponsorship if the individual falls into one of these categories: Contractors, consultants, and less than half time or... View Details

06 Dec 2012
News

New Thinking on Healthcare Reform

consumers," Brown observed. "They have ever-rising expectations about the quality and clarity of their care." For that reason, Brown envisions a movement toward personally kept electronic records, a portable system that can be easily kept... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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

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

01 Dec 2014
News

Forecasting ’15

Then we networked that digital information together. And now we can analyze that information in new and powerful ways. That’s really going to be the big payoff from the feeding of the electronic health records process. Because right now,... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

19 Sep 2019
News

Predicting Human Behaviors

Above: Sid Misra (MBA 2013) cofounder, Perceptive Automata (Len Rubenstein; courtesy of Perceptive Automata) Amid the hubbub of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology tradeshow, Sid Misra (MBA 2013)... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2010
News

Reinventing the Annual Report

in this effort, including Southwest Airlines (with its Southwest Airlines One Report), United Technologies Corporation (UTC), the Dutch electronics and health-care giant Philips, the German chemical company BASF, and Danish pharmaceutical... View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

01 Apr 1997
News

Guitar Hero

want." Juszkiewicz, who turned around an ailing Oklahoma electronics manufacturer before performing similar magic at Gibson, has done more than just resuscitate the guitar maker. Through the purchase of other small instrument... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

Many distinctive aspects of the textile and apparel industries present challenges to implementing electronic commerce. First, and perhaps most important, is the difficulty of accurately characterizing the product online. Many of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

of electronic medical records, which make patient information accessible and portable, have been talked about for a long time. One hurdle to progress on this relates, again, to the existing business model, which makes it difficult for... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 1998
News

Going For The Summit

CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of online business better... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

01 Jun 2000
News

World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector

age of global development -- not the agricultural revolution and not the industrial revolution, but a digital and electronic revolution, which will have enormous implications on where we go both in the world in general and in the... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High

everything from electronics and sporting goods to food and drugs. Recently, with Goodrich focusing increasingly on the aerospace industry, Price oversaw the leveraged buyout of his division and bid farewell to Goodrich last spring. Now,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2012
News

Health Care’s New Frontier

holistic health-care clinics for women became athenahealth, a $245 million enterprise that provides cloud-based practice management, billing, and electronic health record services to over 31,000 medical providers across the United States.... View Details