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April 1, 2024
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Paying For AI In Healthcare: Setting The Right Precedent Amidst Growing Use

By: Mitchell Tang, Kaylee Wilson and Ateev Mehrotra

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Cost

01 Aug 2001
News

Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)

before forming Indivers, a holding company that included Europe's first independent maker of extrusion dies. When a fire forced him to rebuild his facility in 1966, he discovered that he could also use his new machines to drill precise... View Details

Keywords: Georges F. Doriot; John G. McLean; Alumni Achievement Award; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 2012
News

Made in the USA

machinery by cannibalizing parts from a printing press a previous tenant had left behind. “I’d come in every morning at 5 and start cutting and tacking up pieces of metal,” he... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping

14 Jan 2014
News

Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Keywords: teamwork; teaming; Mary Barra; General Motors; leadership; collaboration

Fred DeLuca

expanded his operation. By the mid-nineties, there were tens of thousands of Subway shops in the world, far outpacing any competitor. DeLuca designed a new bread making machine to enable his franchises to offer fresh sandwiches everyday... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

27 Jun 2016
News

Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

recommendation for an FDA-approved tea to strengthen aging joints. The company would expand from the vending machine and supermarket to the pharmacy, doctor’s office, and... View Details

Portrait Project

Liz Delozier

My grandpa jumped out of his school’s window in eighth grade and never went back. His diploma is a plaque that hangs in the back of his cluttered workshop. It reads, “Special Services to General Motors, Fisher Plant, 1959.” He saved them... View Details

Portrait Project

Christine Keung

homework as I could while sitting between the soda machine and a mountain of takeout boxes. Success was getting an education that would free me from what I thought were limits of my upbringing. I’ve since... View Details

12 Jun 2017
News

Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO

Internet” — a term GE uses to describe how to use software and data to make machines smarter and more interactive. “He was miles ahead of the world in terms of redefining us as... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Robots to the Rescue

wrote in third grade about wanting to make a machine that would do all my homework,” recalls Mountz, the affable founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts-based company that is revolutionizing the way... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; e-commerce; order fulfillment; robotics; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2020
News

The Digital Transformation Of Health Care

The digital revolution has dramatically improved health care delivery and discovery in recent years. Artificial intelligence is enhancing diagnostic machines and enabling... View Details

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Industrial Life Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Baker Library During the Depression, Harvard colleagues Donald Davenport and Frank Ayres acquired photographs illustrating the interaction of worker and machine to supplement... View Details

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

was a producer of floor and carpet washing machines for industrial and commercial markets. Over time, it became clear that the technology had applications far beyond Tennant's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2023
Case

Super Quantum: Using Artificial Intelligence to Transform Asset Management (A)

By: Feng Zhu and Kerry Herman

Dr. Zhang, CEO of Super Quantum, an AI-driven hedge fund, is considering an investor’s request to withdraw their funds as the markets experience volatility. Should he pull the investor’s funds? View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Volatility; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry

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Educators

Purchase

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

for companies to explain their rationale for the limitations they place on computer usage. Control access to your systems. You don't allow just anyone off the street to wander in and use your company's fax View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

02 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

inputs to machine learning and the creation of artificial intelligence. Each of these related fields of activity and opportunity encompasses a wide swath of the economy.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

Hurlburt W. Smith

Taking the reigns from his older brother Wilbert, Hurlburt Smith continued to grow Smith Corona through acquisitions, helping it become one of the leading typewriter and office machine producers in the... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S. market in memory chips.... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

11 Oct 2022
News

Righting the Ship

management,” observes Stuckey. “If a process or system is not producing a desired outcome, then consider redesigning the machinery producing the outcome.” With the new model in place and execution numbers at... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

Edmund D. Libbey

Using Mike Owens’ invention for blowing glass bottles, Libbey revolutionized the glass industry. Libbey’s adept commercialization of this invention was the most innovative contribution to the glass industry since the original art of glass blowing. The company... View Details