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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
Nisa Godrej Illustration by Anita Kunz In the summer of 2007, Mark Kahn (MBA 2006) received an unusual call from Mumbai. A former HBS classmate had a problem. She wanted him to look over strategic and financial documents for a diversified agribusiness subsidiary of the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- News
Alumnus Named McDonald’s CEO
Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) has been named the new CEO of McDonald’s. Previously serving as McDonald's USA President, Kempczinski was instrumental in the recent turnaround of the iconic burger chain, a process which was detailed at length in a 2017 HBS Alumni Bulletin... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective Venture Capital and Private... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- News
Why New England Needs New Ideas
foster economic prosperity. The trio offers the anecdote of Isaac Merritt Singer, a Charlestown-based printing machinery maker who became a sewing machine magnate thanks to a smart business model, a strategic sales approach, and consumer-friendly pricing structures.... View Details
Keywords: New England
- 17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Mar 2021
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Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services
that AWS is still in the very early stages of what’s possible,” he added. “We have a lot more to invent for customers, and we have a very strong leadership team and group of builders to go make it happen. Am excited for what lies ahead.”... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) and her inventions have drawn a lot of attention. Former president Bill Clinton said she’s “quite extraordinary, really; if ever there was an innovator, she’s it.” Talk-show host Stephen Colbert called... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
Term project designed to help the automaker advance its delivery of consumer-friendly electronics. “We call the project Cars 2.0,” says Fields. “We’ve had to change the culture here at Ford from ‘not invented here’ to taking ideas from... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Powering into the Future
professor, where they have invented a new way to move power without wires. The company’s called WiTricity—wireless electricity—and it couldn’t be more exciting. “We have so many new electronic devices in our lives that we are all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Grad’s “Claw” Goes to Market
It’s estimated that more than 50 percent of HBS alumni start their own company within ten years of graduation. David Moeller (MBA ’08) got a head start on that stat when he and partner Craig Forest of MIT invented “the Claw,” a bike... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lab Work
papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil was perhaps his biggest success—Henderson said, "There is much more interest among academics than there was a decade ago. Now there is a growing realization that unless a commercial entity picks up the View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
Does an invention that would guarantee motorists they'd never run out of gas sound like a good investment? Hundreds of venture capital firms didn't think so, but that didn't stop Maryland retiree William Hubbard (MBA '49), a former... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
Above: Drone Racing League Founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski is having a magic moment. (photo by Jordan Hollender) Drone Racing League (DRL) founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski (MBA 2008) wants to be clear: He didn’t invent the sport that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
fruitfully partner in a global economy. Bhidé argues that high-level know-how developed in other countries benefits the United States because it is highly mobile and cheap: What is invented expensively in Taiwan, for example, can then be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Collaborative Cures
scientific and technological foundations of medical invention are already straining our existing institutions. By thoughtfully approaching business model innovation, we will be more successful in navigating the opportunities and... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
fill out the rest of those properties that are important to you. And you essentially use that to invent molecules that we haven't seen before or used before for direct air capture. DM: As Sabin begins his search for the breakthrough... View Details
- 20 May 2020
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Keeping Families Connected
content on their respective screens. Launched in 2016 as a story app for young children, Caribu has since expanded to offer a variety of activities for kids up to age 13. The platform was named one of TIME magazine’s best inventions of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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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 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
becoming open to a wider range of American citizens than was the case a half-century ago. A future volume would certainly include today's "stars," who are not white men only. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind. Hers is a rags-to-riches story, not only to great wealth but... View Details