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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system that is not responsive to us." Athenahealth's cloud-based services are designed to make... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak’s no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza’s (see page 42) merchandise, payment plans, and customer service, all designed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
manufacturing process for quality and compliance (including regularly uploading video of work in progress back to McHenry for review). Says Chirchirillo, “It doesn’t matter that it’s being built halfway around the world. Even remotely, we... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
long-promised future a reality “This is is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
delve into the root causes of why the political system is failing and propose solving the problem by changing the election system. America’s political system is designed as a duopoly, where only two parties can compete and where third... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Thorborg (12th ISMP), chair This group is in the process of analyzing the results of a survey sent to all international alumni in an effort to understand their connectedness to the School as well as their needs and expectations.... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
and - much as in word processing - efficiently, with minimal keystrokes." Bricklin made good use of the School's computer resources as he struggled to germinate the seed that would grow into today's ubiquitous spreadsheet, and he found... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
London, Chicago, New York, Boston, Cologne, and Frankfurt in search of a fuller diagnosis and cutting-edge medical advice. The extraordinary effort gave his 59-year-old mother another 10 months with her family. And it inspired Jarzabek to create Trustedoctor, a digital... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
scrappy,” she recalls. “I learned a lot about the community-building aspects of consumer marketing. That experience has been totally relevant to what we’re doing at sweetriot.” When the start-up siren call got too strong, Endline began the research View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
on track. Underpinning his advice with research and illustrating it with stories from others’ successes, Barnett lays out practical, step-by-step processes to help readers realize their goals. Money, Murder, and Madness: A Banking Life by... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
applications and used automated processing to get cash out quickly. By the program’s second round, companies such as Square, Kabbage, PayPal, and Intuit became approved PPP lenders and handled a significant share of PPP loans. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
it far because there’s a lot of air you’re moving around,” he explains. “This is very much a local business.” Consumer preference for plastic and the marketing trend toward rejuvenating a brand with new packaging designs have been pushing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
open-source software have been companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple. Talk about the role of contests. This kind of crowdsourcing has a strong historical precedent. In the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi won a competition to determine who... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information services. He is also exploring how firms use information technology to achieve competitive advantage through further refinement of his "strategic grid" framework. MIS faculty have made technology an integral part of the learning View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
ten-member faculty team has been named to design and deliver the course beginning next fall, but one feature is clear from the outset. To better prepare leaders for a global economy, all students will be required to participate in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light. “So intellectually, though this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
nature preserve and perhaps the most pristine marine area in the world,” Cohen notes. But collecting that gem of the Pacific would be trumped by her lead role in a Florida swampland deal: the landmark agreement designed to restore the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
delivers a message of hope for a better world where no social mission is impossible. Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) Endeavor www.endeavor.org POSITIVE IMPACT: With help from Endeavor, Drillco Tools has become a leading designer and producer of mining... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
has brought on contemporary designers like Versace and Vera Wang to create new china patterns that will maintain the brand’s appeal with a new generation of customers. “When they think of crystal and fine china, most young people remember... View Details