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Ryan Leung | MBA

Ryan Leung Applied Math in Economics and Computer Science Dunster 2022 Cohort 4 I've always heard that tech was all about moving and failing fast. It was only after working on my own startup, when I suddenly found myself needing to learn... View Details

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Georgia Messinger | MBA

Georgia Messinger PSYCHOLOGY, SECONDARY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE LOWELL 2022 Cohort 4 I am looking forward to getting to know everyone in the community and learning more about all the amazing work my peers are doing! Tech areas of interest:... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Takes One to Know One

Relations team in supporting and enabling our alumni and the School to continue making a difference in the world.” Cahill previously headed Alumni Marketing and Communications and Alumni Clubs and Associations within External Relations. She has worked with many... View Details

18 Oct 2017
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4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

two nuclear physicists for grandparents, I grew up in a strongly STEM household. My family fostered in me a desire to understand how things worked and I latched on to the then-nascent Internet and computer revolution. When it came time... View Details

02 Jan 2018
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Reconsidering Retirement

founded in 2013 with classmate Scott Puritz (MBA 1982). The company takes advantage of recent advances in financial products and cloud computing to make available the type of investment services that were once reserved for... View Details

Keywords: April White; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Health Business Fulltext Elite | Baker Library

resources, computer technology, facilities management and insurance. The database is a subset of Business Source Complete . Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote access available HBS Executive Education & Fellows In person... View Details

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Lin Zhu | MBA

Lin Zhu Computer Science, Secondary In Economics Kirkland 2021 Cohort 3 I am excited to be a Tech Fellow for the special opportunity to join a brilliant group of students who are passionate about building technology to drive impact. I... View Details

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

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

to be more active and independent.” A social computing design Yiling Chen, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at SEAS, talked about social computing, where human creativity is used to accomplish... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

06 Dec 2012
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New Thinking on Healthcare Reform

Tim Brown, president and CEO of the design firm IDEO. Christensen then drew a parallel between the evolution of the computer industry and what is slowly taking place in healthcare. Initially, people had to take their problems to the sites... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 07 Mar 2022
Virtual Programming

Considering a Career Transition? Connect with HBS

Are you thinking about making a career move? Or, do you want to work with a coach on some aspect of your leadership? Maybe you want to step back and reflect on your purpose, power up your LinkedIn profile, or practice for an upcoming interview. If these aspects of... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

another HBS case discussion in the spring of 1978, calculator in hand, Bricklin (MBA '79) had an epiphany: there should be a computer program that could speed up the tedious computations case analysis often... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

"I've no idea how I did it. I didn't sleep much," she laughs. After graduation, Brochu went to Silicon Valley and worked for a computer security firm. But like the rest of the nation, her worldview shifted on 9/11. She decided... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

Portrait Project

Kelly Cheng

in time and chase strategies. Both sound smarter than "procrastination." I am ironically an incorrigible planner. Post-it notes decorate my walls, my desk, my computer and at times even me. Those multi-colored little squares... View Details

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Kayla Huang | MBA

Kayla Huang Computer Science/Government Eliot 2024 Cohort 5 I feel incredibly fortunate to be surrounded by such intelligent and ambitious impact-oriented leaders at Harvard. Even more so, I relish an opportunity to explore how technology... View Details

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

that some giant computers controlled by big corporations and institutions know better than they do about what they will be doing in (the) future and what they'll become They might turn into poor, weak machines themselves , abiding by what... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Angel Onuoha | MBA

Angel Onuoha Economics, Secondary in Computer Science Winthrop 2021 Cohort 3 I am excited to be a Tech Fellow to surround myself with other like-minded individuals who are passionate about innovation, technology, and problem solving Tech... View Details

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Study Spaces | Baker Library

Study Spaces Baker Library Exchange (First Floor) Located inside the South entrance to Baker Library on the ground floor, the Exchange offers comfortable seating and computer workstations to all visitors. In addition, there are Bloomberg... View Details

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