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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools
Stamps Reading room on the CD-ROM machine (next to the Bloomberg terminal). PolicyMap: web-based GIS platform for the United States. It captures data through custom demographic maps, tables, reports and analytics.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
they have. The accelerator brings together research foundations with relevant datasets and analytics companies to leverage the latest in artificial intelligence and machine... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
with cement, pour the mixture into molds, and bake it into slabs. Italian polishing machines grind the slabs to custom widths and polish them to a glossy finish. The slabs... 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
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
Twittersphere that they would investigate. Technology is undeniably transforming the financial services industry. Fintechs, Big Tech, and banks are using increasing volumes of data, artificial intelligence, View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
Home, a nonprofit established to mobilize the American workforce quarantined at home, and began offering their MadeByUS kits that include everything—from assembly instructions to precut gown panels—for anyone with a sewing View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Prospective students made the rankings cash machines for the publishers, and for better or worse, the rankings came to dominate would-be students’ perceptions of business schools. As the media rankings... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
20th century, I decided on an industrial marketer and a consumer marketer who epitomized the "American Century." Each in his own way was a pioneer in the art of salesmanship: Thomas J. Watson, Sr., who created International Business View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
uses state-of-the-art machines to fabricate component parts for a worldwide customer base. For the Kirlin Company, technologically advanced lighting designed and manufactured in the United States keeps the... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
alumni are pursu... What SEI is Reading and Listening To Margot Dushin 08 Feb 2018 In between our work to educate, support, and inspire leaders across all sectors to tackle society... From HBS to Nigerian... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
everything from temperature to light intensity and humidity. Machines assist a small production team that cuts and bundles roses for sale. Image source: the authors Once cut,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Polina Yampolska
Ten years ago, sitting in a cramped, unheated kitchen in my family's apartment on the outskirts of Kiev, I wrote the closing paragraph of my college application essay: "I like to be a small part in a huge machine that is called human... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as... View Details
Levels of Meaning
Serge Heftler-Louiche, former manager of Coty. Another example is I.M. Singer, namesake of the Singer sewing machine empire. Singer himself was an odd, eccentric character, but his partner, Edward Clark, had the regimented business mind.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
trucks and working in a machine shop at a U.S. early-warning ballistic missile detection site. There he discovered that nothing whiled away the cold, dark, and tedium like a... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
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Pranav Kothari
Curiosity has always propelled Pranav Kothari. As a child in India, he was intrigued by his family's wholesale textile business. "I was always interested in how things work, how they're made, how machines produce," Pranav says.... View Details
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Xue (Ken) Yuan
In China, Xue Yuan earned an undergrad degree in environmental engineering and graduate degrees in advanced polymer chemistry. “But spending eight hours a day, seven days a week in a research lab was not what I wanted to do with my life,”... View Details