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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
D. Fiorentino (MBA '79), vice president and treasurer of the Massachusetts-based Marathon Technologies Corporation, was one of a number of enthusiastic alumni participants who were impressed with the pedagogical potential of the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 20 Apr 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the Supply Landscape
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
Illustration by Chris Gash When Rob Saliterman (MBA 2011) started selling online political ads at Google, they were almost all destined for people already seeking political content, placed either on specific networks or in response to... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
Social networking sites such as MySpace.com are some of the most trafficked on the Web—MySpace had 46 million unique users in June and features nearly 100 million personal profiles posted by users, many of whom are in their teens and twenties. What's more, the average... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
based on their best efforts to forecast customer needs. With new technologies such as online grocery scanners, companies can better monitor consumer behavior, allowing them to anticipate needs more... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
of FairMarket, which provides online auction services for a variety of merchant and community sites. Meakem is the founder and CEO of FreeMarkets, which creates business-to-business online auctions for... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
sprints. The alumni and practitioners joined virtually, from what Professor Karim R. Lakhani has taken to calling “the universe deck.” In the classroom and in the online chat for this short intensive program (SIP), participants debated... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
new technologies and their ability to shadow an individual's online choices and habits are troubling to many observers. The use of technologies such as cookies -- programs that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
the world, as millions of companies have downloaded their free database and incorporated it into their technology infrastrcture. Only recently has the company focused on monetization. Q: What lessons does Codecademy offer for companies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
year, topping $60 billion. But these newly fashion-conscious men didn’t want to spend lots of time and money on shopping and tailoring. Motlagh’s solution: use technology to update and brand traditional bespoke tailoring and create a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
2008). Li and Bernoff are Forrester Research analysts deeply plugged into technology and social computing. “While you can’t stop it, you can understand it. You can not only live with it; you can thrive in it,” Li and Bernoff write. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
“This is the most exciting time in the technology industry since I left Stanford Business School 26 years ago,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (Harvard ’77) told a student audience that nearly filled Burden Auditorium in early December.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
whom he’d known since high school. They were equally intrigued. “We thought, why don’t we use that technology to disrupt the grocery industry by bringing the same type of efficiencies to the supermarket?” Aguerrevere says. Last November,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
online like it was 1996. This was worrisome to Marwell—a serial entrepreneur and recipient of the San Francisco Chronicle Visionary of the Year award—as technology was becoming increasingly essential for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
world," he said. "Probably more so because more business models are possible online." Myth #5: It's easier for bricks-and-mortar retailers to extend their business. Using books as an example, Bezos noted that online sellers are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Platforms and Collaborations
point in the video, thereby creating a presentation to which students can log on and interact with together outside of class. Technological innovations offer the potential for online coursework — even now,... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
to search, he firmly believes that the more search technology is improved, the faster researchers can find cures for diseases and a host of other societal problems. In brief, search can change the world—and for the better. Born in Paris,... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
Technology is changing everything about how we shop. Two decades ago when we needed something, we went to the store. That’s what we’d done for hundreds of years. Then we began to turn to the computer. Now shopping means reaching for our... View Details