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Tomasz Cienkowski | MBA

Tomasz Cienkowski Computer Science Winthrop 2022 Cohort 3 Although research labs and physician offices are often located on the same floor in the hospital, it takes years or even decades for innovation to cross from the labs to the... View Details

01 Sep 2013
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Shining Knight

his pet passion, educational philanthropy." The article reported how in 1998, Ogden went public on the London Stock Exchange with Computacenter, the giant computer services company he cofounded, with all proceeds from its 3.5 million... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Finance

15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

research presentations illustrated how business, science, and technology are addressing societal challenges: SEAS professor Yiling Chen discussed the design of social computing systems, HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani explained the use of... View Details

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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

company that is redefining digital art and creating a way for artists to capture value from their art. Synthetic Biology – Enabling us to reprogram DNA and rewrite the code of life (25% of sessions): We examine the potential for gene editing and other forms of View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Q&A: Donna Dubinsky

A member of the team that introduced the phenomenally successful PalmPilot, Donna Lee Dubinsky (MBA 1981) has a handle on the handheld computer market. She was one of the brains behind the Pilot, the standard-setting personal digital... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; PalmPilot; Apple; Telecommunications; Information

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

its trek through that? Grove: Our last-generation growth has been fueled by a fairly major structural transformation of the computing industry from mainframe, centralized computing to distributed computing,... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

doesn't manufacture—computer memory systems. It makes money by licensing its patented designs to other companies, who manufacture computer memory and sell it to computer makers. Over the course of the 1990s,... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

was trying to figure out what the future of computing would look like: would serverless technology reach a critical mass, and, when will quantum computing mature? Some days I was talking to the leaders of... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

Portrait Project

Sam Li

Technology is what I live and breathe. I studied computer science in college and have since worked in the tech industry. How could anybody hate technology? The web has made everything so simple. And we all love our smartphones, right? Not... View Details

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Manasi Maheshwari | MBA

Manasi Maheshwari Computer Science Currier 2021 Cohort 2 I'm passionate about using technology to address social issues. My favorite classes have been centered on entrepreneurship and design thinking to create tangible solutions and I... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Where Innovation Rules

thousands of HBS alumni. Whether through creative destruction, disruptive innovation, or riding a societal quantum leap forward, HBS alumni entrepreneurs have founded or grown companies that are pervasive and familiar, from consumer products to financial services, from... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg;Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Educational Services; Management

Student-Profile

Erica Moszkowski

An interdisciplinary approach to economics has always appealed to Erica Moszkowski (she/her). After taking a computer science course that examined mechanism design and computational elegance, she began to... View Details

John A. Young

Marking the exit of H-P founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard, Young’s rise to CEO came at a time when H-P was enjoying a resurgence of growth. Under Young’s leadership, H-P continued the success of the HP-3000 computer, which was popular with manufacturing plants,... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Robert H. Sorensen

Sorensen led Perkin-Elmer to become one of the premier diversified technology companies in the United States. It developed the first commercial super minicomputer in 1979. During his CEO tenure, sales and earnings more than tripled and Perkin-Elmer grew to become the... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Robert W. Galvin

Galvin led Motorola to become the second largest producer of semiconductors in the nation in the mid-1960s, and by 1984, Motorola had $2.5 billion in semiconductor sales. In the 1970s and 80s, Galvin also had tremendous success producing microprocessors, eventually... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Scott D. Cook

Though he was not the first individual to launch a personal finance software company, Cook was the most successful. His focus on easy of use and customer service helped to develop Quicken into one of the most successful software applications introduced in the last two... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story

In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

January 1985 (Revised February 1997)
Case

Lotus Development Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman

Contains a description of the history and venture capital financing of Lotus Development. Focuses on issues related to the possible terms of investment in Lotus by a major venture capital firm. The pedagogic objectives in the case are: to explore the elements of the... View Details