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- 01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
fun in what I do is the best part of my work," says Jakurski, clearly in his element at his central Rio office surrounded by computer terminals. While Jakurski loves his profession, his interests reach far beyond the world of finance. A... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1943 Born, Chicago, Illinois 1965 Earns AB, History and Literature, Radcliffe College 1966 Joins PHI as Technical Editor 1968 Joins Cambridge Computer Associates as Technical Writer... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
TOBIAS: “When CEOs make 500 times what their employees make, there is an upper class.” So there I am moderating last fall’s 35th Reunion panel, “Two Steves and a Joe,” with classmates Steve Schwarzman (estimated net worth, $15 billion), Joe Perella (estimated net... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
to somehow be of service to others.” A graduate of Morehouse College with a degree in computer science, he recalls that, at the time he applied to HBS, deciding between an advanced degree in business or in religion was “almost a toss-up.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A History of Women at HBS
SIGN ME UP: Registration at Baker Library in 1960 BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS The presence of female students on the HBS campus is no longer a novelty, but a new Centennial year exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center reveals a time in history when the... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
performance. Putting in $300,000 for 60 percent of the equity, Dunn helped launch Prime Computer in 1972 and served as its chairman for the next seventeen years. With his hands-on help, Prime became an early high-tech success story, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
black-box entity linked to a start-up with a dollar sign. A Los Angeles native, Wasserman, 32, met his wife (now a practicing obstetrician) as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received joint degrees in management and finance and View Details
- 05 Oct 2022
- News
Inside the Chip Shortage
Chosun. Shibata cites the shortage of minor chips that are used in peripherals, not the lack of key semiconductors, as the main issue. “Until now, computing capabilities were only necessary in computers and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Wang Papers to HBS
Important corporate records from Wang Laboratories and personal papers of the company's late founder and CEO, Dr. An Wang, were recently donated by his family to the Baker Library Historical Collections at HBS. Computer memory technology... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
kiosks stationed here and there; almost every one I pass has a student logged on. I find my way to my first class, Assistant Professor Andrew McAfee’s Operating an E-Business. Right off the bat, McAfee sets up a presentation on a classroom View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
Illustration by Edmon deHaro Even before we’ve seen the full potential of quantum computing in any material sense, the global market is estimated to reach $5.5 billion in the next five years. To begin to understand why, consider how it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
way to make the world a better place. For instance, its World Community Grid project came about when IBM had a breakthrough in grid computing, which involves tying many computers together to boost computing... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
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“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
University computing center to be run through a computer there so that new HBS 8x5 cards could be printed containing the new data. Then the new cards were proofed against the old ones. So it turns out the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
Scott Cook Even as a kid, Scott Cook was interested in figuring out how computers could help ordinary people. In high school, he sketched a tablet-style computer that could read handwriting and calculate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
to the printer in South Carolina, who would keyboard all the pages twice and then compare the two copies of the page as a crude way of proofing!” Fortunately, computers have rendered that tedious process obsolete. But it still takes three... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI
the basic premise is this: Computers get smart, become self-aware, take over, sometimes take on the shape of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and try to eradicate humanity. Here's a refresher, courtesy of Terminator 3: “The virus has infected... View Details
- 22 May 2017
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Two On-Track Investments
how much Seth Klarman (MBA 1982) and a co-owner paid for Cloud Computing, winner of the Preakness Stakes on May 20. A 13-1 prerace underdog, Cloud Computing paid $28.20 to win and earned his owners a $900,000 paycheck. Cloud View Details