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- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
of tent in use on some of the planet’s most dangerous peaks. Priced from $1,100 to $8,750 (for a seven-meter geodesic dome that can serve as a combination dining hall, meeting place, and satellite communication center), the company’s... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
world to move on from its modern energy sources the way that it once moved on from whale oil. Entrepreneurs like Bezos and Musk, whom I admire for their creativity and initiative, want to profit from launching satellites and providing... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
that have happened in the media business over the past three-plus decades," McGee said over coffee in Spangler Grill during a visit to campus last spring, noting that when he joined HBO it was a single network with fewer than three million subscribers. "Our View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
attract young engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce... View Details
- Web
Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
helping drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide. Team: Narek Dshkhunyan, MBA 2024; Daniel Erdosy 2024 Crowd Favorite, Business Track: BEAM. BEAM provide continuous, high-bandwidth access... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
beyond Boston. The Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development used Internet technology and digitalized video to make teaching materials, guest speakers, and class lectures available via the Web to faculty and students at Costa Rica's... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
program manager for a project there that was focused on developing and launching low-cost, small satellites as an alternative to larger and more expensive conventional satellites. The experience of working with a more cost-effective... View Details
- Web
A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
The company implemented a "sun and satellite" system in which, Land explained, "someone is a ‘sun' concentrating on his particular problem and those around him are ‘satellites.' Many satellites are suns in other domains and I might be a... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
machine learning tool to help small businesses identify promising business opportunities. “Google has useful information on foot-traffic patterns, plus satellite imagery and other data that can help entrepreneurs select the most promising... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
In an effort to expand the reach of its Asia-Pacific Research Center, HBS has opened a satellite office in Japan. Masako Egawa (MBA '86) has been named executive director of the Japan Research Office in Tokyo. Formerly an executive... View Details
- Fast Answer
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools
WMS and Google Earth. It is available in the Stamps Reading room on the CD-ROM machine (next to the Bloomberg terminal). Google Earth Pro: allows you to view satellite imagery from nearly anywhere on earth.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
objective was met. Our space research gave rise to Silicon Valley, and U.S. industrial strength was enhanced by technology innovation derived from products created for our satellite program. By 1980, however, Europe, helped by the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
legitimacy and identity in the emerging field of satellite radio. A panel discussion moderated by HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett that included Scott Cook (MBA ’76) of Intuit, Mark Fishman (AMP 163, 2002) of Novartis, Kim Malone Scott... View Details
- Profile
Andrew Pratt
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? In my previous life, I worked on making spacecraft and satellites – aerospace has always been a passion of mine. When I came to Harvard, I wanted to come at it from a... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control systems as "one of our biggest... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
students a head start on learning before they come to campus. Live, two-way satellite feeds between HBS and remote sites bring the business world directly into our classrooms. A second major thrust is Harvard Business School Publishing's... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
Just as radio revolutionized the entertainment world at the turn of the century, satellite broadcasting, the Internet, VCRs, and new communications technologies are transforming the entertainment industry, said Universal Studios chairman... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
are putting those satellites up there that will benefit directly or other third parties that could rise from that is one thing we could look at. The cost of access to space though is really the key thing. Hanna: And you were involved in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
inexpensively on a desktop. I ran a small “Skunk Works”-like program at Lockheed Martin in the early 1990s that produced the IKONOS satellite, the first high-resolution commercial satellite that has evolved over time into an industry... View Details