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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Africa. As founder and CEO of Adesemi, Monique Maddy (MBA '93) spoke about her goal to deliver wireless communication - through a system of voicemail, pagers, and pay phones - to underdeveloped areas of the globe. Panelist John L. Mack of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
decades. I would always stop by, have breakfast, and see how all my local friends were doing. And this time she was just—oh, man—busy, busy, busy. She was on her cell phone, and she’s ordering an 18-wheeler full of frozen chicken parts.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are, staffing the View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
with patients with COVID-19. “We engineered a replacement shield based off a cell phone photo and produced samples in three days,” says Slesinger. “Doctors at a large Bay Area, CA, hospital were blown away... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
broken were education and medicine," Nielsen recalls. "But education seemed too big a nut to crack." Settling on medicine, Nielsen and Cramer pored over the Seattle phone book to find a research and development company they could buy and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Photo courtesy of Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004) started at HBS in 2002, the private space industry was really just... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
billion in annual revenues. Continental merged with US WEST Media Group in November 1996. "Working with US WEST, within the next five to eight years we will be delivering to people's homes a whole package of services, including video, high-speed data transmission,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
worked with committee members to examine every expenditure, from staff cell phones to printing costs to health care concessions. Trimming was necessary but not enough; unthinkable as it seemed, all librarian... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Photography by King Lawrence Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) is holding a manager’s meeting while driving 70 mph up I-75 in Kentucky. As Rogers pins his phone horizontally against the dashboard, his Local Motors team, gathered around a conference... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
United States’ most visible, influential export. But given its uncertainties, what would drive HBS alumni to enter an industry characterized in the best of times as “the business of rejection”? * * * * * In Hollywood, the spotlight... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Their infrastructure, in terms of transportation (roads) and communication (broadband internet and cell phone service), is more limited. And they are relatively inaccessible: If you live in Harlan and want... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
astronomical -- as much as $33 billion worldwide by 2004, according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
being competitive on value,” says Kempczinski. “Our Dollar Menu clearly defined value for the industry for a good decade, and as we came off of that, we hadn’t really redefined what value meant to us.” Last year, McDonald’s launched a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
cost of the health care that they’re paying for their subscribers has gone down by 50 percent in the last month or so. It seems irresponsible for the private insurance industry to realize a windfall at a time when providers are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
have a strong network of industry partners that can serve as a sounding board and even as potential customers," Tecco says during an interview at Rock Health's Chinatown offices. (With full-time staff projected to grow from 7 to 12... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm itself, did not leave time for family and personal life. The fact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
DATAR AND GARVIN: Listen to "Rethinking the MBA" Virtual Learning Series phone call (mp3) If you are curious about the future of business education, look no further than the new book Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads... View Details