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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
opportunity you both saw. Who is the audience you’re going after, and what was the gap you saw in the market? MA: This is going to sound crazy but our target is the 200 million people who read the news online in the United States. The gap... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
support.” Having friends and family who’d experienced these complications—and as young women hoping to start families themselves one day—Keshani, Richter, and Cole decided to change those odds. Over the course of their second year at HBS, they developed and launched... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
competitions and judging by a panel of global HBS Alumni Angels Association members narrowed the field. Four alumni teams pitched at the finale: ConnectHealth; Cobli, a car fleet logistics data company based in Brazil; EverlyWell, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
always outpace static compliance requirements, so trying to meet them amounts to a misallocation of resources, often costly and with little promise of better security. The ever-increasing data gathered by Internet giants such as Google... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Photos by Webb Chappell At first glance, the MBA Class of 2006 is an interesting collection of data points: 897 students from 67 countries, 34 percent women, 32 percent international, and 21 percent minorities. But look again, deeper this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
computing changes the way people use data to make decisions. “We’re seeing more of analytics and big data as a means not just to support the decision a person wants to make, but also as a way to provide... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
Administration, made educating students “to use data for judgment, and judgment for data” one of the top three priorities guiding the MBA curriculum. “AI is not just displacing human workers—it is changing the nature of firms, how they... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Educational Programs—Identify HBS Online and Harvard Business Publishing content for asynchronous learning; identify Executive Education programs to develop leaders and managers. Convening and Dissemination—Launch on-campus and virtual... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Sep 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
businessman, he also saw the medical industry’s lost opportunity. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s secure online platform that streamlines communication between inbound patients and doctors. Hospitals that adopt the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
automate some processes, such as creating an online dashboard for volunteer coaches that lets them sign up, select a client, add notes about the engagement, and give feedback about the experience. Clients are also surveyed after their... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than 71 million reviews, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
use of AI in everything from facial recognition to predictive sentencing. She found it nonetheless. The online rental platform uses its pricing tool to increase host revenues by dynamically adjusting rental prices according to demand.... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
taught in a practitioner structure, so that when you enter the workforce, you look a lot more like a fifth-year teacher than a first-year teacher. Our third layer that I think has the most systems-level potential is this data play. So the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “The industry is hard. You need tons of money to get started. Almost all restaurants go broke after... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
relationships; OkCupid, founded in 2004, which popularized the idea that data could solve the dating dilemma; and niche sites from JDate and ChristianMingle to FarmersOnly. The number and diversity of the sites helped reduce the stigma... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus
(WSJ photo illustration) (WSJ photo illustration) The online fashion innovator Rent the Runway—brainchild of Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss (both MBA 2009)—is continuing to go brick-and-mortar. The Wall Street Journal details the new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
Alumni interested in leaders of the past century now have a powerful database at their fingertips, thanks to the School’s Leadership Initiative. The online resource offers a comprehensive overview of leadership in 20th-century American... View Details