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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
display were successfully resolved, and the Sony eBook launched in the United States to extensive media coverage as the first mainstream offering in the e-reader market (the Kindle would not appear until November 2007). Over time, E Ink added new customers in cell... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
In 1989, Sergeant William Delaney Gibbs was in Panama participating in Operation Just Cause, set to remove military dictator Manuel Noriega from power. He was with the Seventh Infantry Division and, during combat five days before the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
phone connected to a power cord that’s not plugged into a socket. “We were all feeling it,” says Christina Carbonell (MBA 2000). She and Galyn Bernard (MBA 2006), both founders and CEOs, were concerned for the team’s mental health and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
millions of people had been driven from their homes. To assist with the country’s efforts at rebuilding, DeFehr developed a crop-diversification strategy. He spent two years establishing the project, which is still in operation today.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
simultaneously. It’s a familiar juggling act in an erratic business that can see an actor suddenly drop out or a director lose interest. “My days are endless phone calls, e-mails, reading, and meetings,” says Zee, “talking to writers,... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
as CEO and president of Palm Computing and a decade as a marketing and logistics executive at Apple and its spin-off Claris, Dubinsky cofounded Handspring. As the company’s CEO, she oversees development, production, and marketing of the Visor, a popular PDA that is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
work-related benefits in the process. Are we literally taking our phones to bed with us? In a survey we did of 1,600 managers and professionals in various organizations across the globe, 26 percent admitted to sleeping with their... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was not unusual, but the network approach was. Ruma would train... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it operates in, we can find... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
chairman of the Tata Group, a $22 billion conglomerate with 93 companies operating in areas as diverse as IT and communications, steel, financial services, hotels, and consumer goods ranging from tea to china to automobiles. “There was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
subscription service, which we chose for ease of use. Yes, we could have launched an app, but that’s not necessarily the easiest way to consume news, whereas everyone with a mobile phone has access to a text message platform. We also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
to bed, and all of a sudden your cell phone rings and it’s some emergent work issue and you have to take a call and you find yourself beating yourself up because there you go, breaking your promise. You were going to spend time with your... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
microchip: “I remember that it was perceived by lots of people as affecting only the computer industry; but, of course, it’s led to the cellular phone and the internet, and it has changed all our lives. The same is going to happen here,”... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to gather weather data in an entirely new way—by extracting information from things like cell phone signals. When wireless signals hit atmospheric conditions like rain, for example, they lose strength. “We can reverse engineer the signal... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
precomputer times: on 8x5-inch alphabetized cards, one per alum, filling buckets set in five-foot-long deep trays placed on four revolving shelves, like cars on a very wide, miniature (about 4 ½ feet tall), electrically operated Ferris... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
long-running stories, it is often the episodes that take place off the beaten track that most capture the imagination. Some classmates may check in only once or twice in their careers, while other reports might appear only because a class secretary made a chance,... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
It’s fitting that Erik Dyson’s HBS interview was conducted over a pay phone in Costa Rica, where he and his wife, Debbi, were finishing a three-year program for Habitat for Humanity. Now the CEO of the disaster relief organization All... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in Jakarta. That rapid growth of internet- ready cell View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
Chartered Bank) in India in 1982, rising through the ranks in a variety of merchant, retail, and investment banking assignments before moving to Morgan Stanley’s India operation in 1994. Through a joint venture with the investment bank JM... View Details