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06 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

display-target similarity—one with low similarity that displayed a watch and computer mouse; another with moderate similarity that pictured other bathroom accessories; and a third with high similarity that showed other towels. The results... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

Many high-tech companies in the United States look overseas to fill talent gaps in their employment ranks by hiring skilled immigrants, often sponsoring the visas these workers need to live in this country. Critics say this can create an unpleasant fallout effect,the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Computer

Jerry Yang

Yang and fellow Stanford University doctoral student, David Filo, created the precursor to Yahoo! to aid them in their use of the burgeoning world wide web. What began as a simple hobby eventually turned into one of the few success stories of the nineties Internet... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Paul B. Wishart

Under Wishart’s direction, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, a pioneer producer of automatic control devices, became Honeywell, Incorporated, a diversified electronics manufacturer. While putting Honeywell on a path of diversification, Wishart doubled sales from... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Walter H. Wheeler, Jr.

Wheeler served as CEO or Chairman of Pitney-Bowes for over three decades. Under his leadership, Pitney-Bowes grew from a regional postage meter manufacturer generating $3 million in revenues to a $300 million diversified direct mail machinery operation. He presided... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

J. Basil Ward

Ward presided over a period of dramatic growth and development for Addressograph. Through careful acquisitions and targeted investments, he enabled the company to stay at the forefront of the printing and typesetting industry. Under his leadership, the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Joseph Boyer

Boyer helped William S. Burroughs develop the adding machine and was the inventor of the first successful pneumatic hammer. In 1900, Boyer moved the Burroughs Adding Machine Company to Detroit. By 1930, at the time of Boyer's death, Burroughs Adding Machine Company was... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Enos M. Barton

In 1872, Barton co-founded Western Electric Manufacturing Company. In 1881, the company was reorganized as the Western Electric Company and licensed under the Bell patents to manufacture instruments for AT&T. Barton oversaw the international expansion of Western... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Paul V. Galvin

Creating the Motorola car radio, Galvin emerged as the premier producer of car radios in the 1930s. Galvin also invented the walkie-talkie, producing some 40,000 during World War II. In 1947, Galvin introduced the first practical television set under $200, helping... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Lawrence J. Ellison

Ellison founded the second largest software company in the world – building the first commercially viable relational database. Oracle applications power more business-to-business and administrative systems than any other software provider. Through his company, Ellison... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Richard J. Egan

Egan co-founded EMC and built it into the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory storage devices. Between 1979 and 1986, EMC’s revenues doubled each year catapulting it into the Fortune 500 in less than 10 years. View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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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Karly Hou | MBA

Karly Hou Computer Science/Mathematics Eliot 2024 Cohort 5 The complex problems that face modern societies require technical innovations grounded in empathy, ethics, business sense, and thoughtful design. I want to build creative... View Details

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

01 Dec 2008
News

Wyss Gift Sets Harvard Record

enterprise bringing together experimentalists, theoreticians, and clinicians with expertise in engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, robotics, medicine, and surgery. They will work to develop biomimetic... View Details

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

generating goodwill in a nonaggressive way. Q: You write a lot about interactions between humans and technology. Are computers the perfect tool for customized marketing? A: The tailoring of messages via View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service