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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
attention,” Ricotta says. “But I think we’re going to be able to do things with the quantum internet and quantum computing that are hard to imagine right now. I think they’re going to be civilization-changing. Let’s put it that way.” View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
ask them to loan you a painting for an exhibit. I imagine that being challenging. In some ways, you're kind of asking them to release this very valuable baby in their collection to you. Murrell: The process of convincing museums to lend... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
the model from one that prioritizes the studios to a teacher-first approach. In 2021 Bopsidy launched a social platform that allows the hobbyist and professional dancer alike to create a personal profile showcasing their work. Imagine an... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
DZD. “The thing about founding a company in life sciences is that what you are trying to do has never been done before.” Aikili founder Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) agrees. “There’s a certain amount of passive skepticism required in this space,” she observes. “You need to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
differently.” One course that sparked Magwegwe’s imagination was Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE), taught by Professor Richard Vietor, author of How Countries Compete. “It provided great insights for strategic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
complementary channels has opened up possibilities that would not have been imaginable with the more traditional, siloed approach. JA: I would give the example of Glossier, which is a digitally native, direct-to-consumer cosmetics... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
collapse before intervening. The liquidationist views of that era have been thoroughly discredited, and we should not return to them now. The answer to our problems is not to imagine we can take apart every big bank, or pretend they’ll be... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
understanding, not just memorizing.” True understanding, she elaborates, can best be accomplished through visualization; imagine cookies on plates to understand multiplication, or meters below sea level to understand negative numbers. The... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
was in the engineering school. And I said to the dean, “It can’t be that I’m supposed to teach a spirit. Imagine if we taught the engineers in charge of building our bridges to rely on a similar bridge-building spirit.” That would be... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
permanent and temporary “on-demand” positions—has helped businesses save more than $1,000 per permanent hire by bypassing recruitment, background checks, and training. It has also helped hourly employees pick up extra work. “You can View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
day of my life, that would be utopia.” It’s a world Callahan had never even imagined for himself when he took his first recreational sail with a friend, in 1994. But he fell in love instantly with ocean-based activities, and he discovered... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
environment, and society. Imagine living a life where you have no idea what your speed is when you’re driving: This is like the society that we have built. The outcomes that we’re getting aren’t very surprising since we’re not actually... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
season, we never imagined that we would someday get to be part of the phenomenon that is awakening America's entrepreneurial spirit. We walked out thrilled that every single shark loved our product. Lori's tweet during the show summed up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
home-cleaning product line, opened nearly 500 company stores, and doubled sales (it doesn’t disclose figures). The future looked bright — until last August 29. That’s when Hurricane Katrina almost ruined everything. In the storm’s aftermath, Oreck, 54, faced a crisis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
the recent innovation has come from technologists and pedagogical talent working together to create an environment where the teacher can focus solely on trying to understand what a student knows and what he or she needs next." EQUAL OPPORTUNITY "It's wrong to View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
interaction might look like, imagine that a golf club manufacturer sells a nine iron online, then invites the buyer to upload a video of their swing for critique by a pro. Or a music store sells an instrument, then offers the buyer online... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Ballroom dancing, painting Recommended Reading Einstein's Dreams, by Alan P. Lightman "Written by a humanist/scientist, this is a compelling collection of fables focusing on various conceptions of time, as seen through the imagined dreams... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Iceland for eight years, said that there were children in Iceland under eight years of age who believed that only a woman could be president. Just imagine the possibilities! What led to the formation of the CWWL? As I interviewed these... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry