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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
The company has raised about $500,000 in funding so far and is readying a Series A round. The Question: Unger and her team at Nix built the biosenser as an analog system, differentiated from the growing wearables market by its thin,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
History's Guiding Light
understanding of technology/digital issues in the global economy. Despite the perceived “newness” of the field, I became captivated by the abundance of historical analogs to the important global technology trends we are seeing today. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Editor’s Letter
In 1984, I took my babysitting money to the Sam Goody store at the Short Hills Mall and purchased a copy of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A., on LP. It was the best-selling album of the year and, for a kid growing up in New Jersey, not owning it was unthinkable.... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud
Integrating research streams from psychology and marketing, Associate Professor Anat Keinan has conducted a series of experiments to investigate the conditions under which new customers can enhance a prestige brand’s image. Drawing an View Details
- Portrait Project
Ryan Kauppila
cashiers, a heads-up penny, and padiddles should be acknowledged. HBS has taught me to use clichés and analogies liberally – simple declarative sentences are worse than C-SPAN reruns. 'Over-animated' is a compliment. Bad bosses and car... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Desert Dust-Up
Simmons Photo Courtesy Simmons & Co. INTL. Oil and water don’t mix. That truism about elements at odds could also serve as an analogy for Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67), who’s sometimes known as a petroleum-industry contrarian. But it’s the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is the difficulty some people have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
“It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
He Begs to Differentiate
Worldwide, J. Walter Thompson, and Hill & Knowlton. Through his clients, Sorrell has his finger on the pulse of a wide range of industries. Speaking of the Internet, he observed that "the great analogy for the Web is the nineteenth... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
mention his entrepreneurial spirit—can be traced back to his time at HBS. As a student, he loved former HBS lecturer Irving Grousbeck's popular course on starting new ventures and conducted a field study of Analog Devices, run by Ray... View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, HBS student Andrew Sridhar (MBA 2010) cited what he calls “troubling” aspects of the oath. For example, he doesn’t buy the professionalization analogy with oaths in law, medicine, or the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
see which clinicians, hospitals, insurers, and others provide the best value." Even if the Trump rules hold up, they cannot provide the full accounting of prices and outcomes the health care system needs. For that, the United States needs a health care View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
that, although this approach greatly simplifies the life of the researcher, it is incomplete and distorting. We make an analogy between new business formation and child rearing: starting the task requires only a moment of enthusiasm, but... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day
nods behind masks as we pass one another en route to remotely administered final exams. To call it strange is an understatement. I’ve found this new normal, however – beauty and potential tinged by loss – analogous to how many veterans... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
evolution, he analogizes them to mainframes, minicomputers, and microprocessor-based systems, respectively. Lassiter talks about the promise of next-generation nuclear power, and introduces some of the key players in the field. "If you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
additional applications for the technology that Fuji had developed for the analog film market. So instead of focusing only on digital imaging, the obvious substitute for analog photography, Fuji now has the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass — On a rainy afternoon in late October, Mohsen Mostafavi stood before a packed auditorium at Harvard University and considered the history of cities in terms of three cooked eggs. Mostafavi, the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, described... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
said. Men, on the other hand, "attach everything on the table—we call them Frankenberries." The watch industry might be a good analogy as to how devices will evolve, he said. For next to nothing, you can get a watch from Timex... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne