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Elisabeth Ndour
HBS. In Nairobi, she’ll work with a startup that allows SMBs to accept mobile payments. “It’s a life-changing technology for people without computers or bank accounts,” Elisabeth explains. “And it represents a whole new level of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
and cutting death rates. Brailer’s challenge is to create electronic recordkeeping standards for the medical profession and to fund construction of the computer network necessary to store and share patient data. Said Brailer: “Health-care... View Details
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Scott D. Cook | Baker Library
inspired him to seek an idea for a company of his own. One day when his wife was complaining about paying the bills, Scott realized that the new personal computers people had just begun to purchase in significant numbers could be put to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
www.bluemercury.com. With a $60,000 budget for the first six months of operation, Malcolm kept a tight rein on unnecessary expenditures, choosing low-cost eMachines over standard desktop computers for her employees' relatively light... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
customers like his product. In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade The Strategic Brew computer simulation puts MBAs in charge of their own breweries, rising or sinking based on the popularity of their pseudo suds. Ramon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
programs I jotted down during the sessions, one put a particularly fine point on doubts about the true value of the degree. Not long ago, companies hired MBAs for their specialized knowledge in disciplines and business functions. Now they can buy View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
Tim Brown, president and CEO of the design firm IDEO. Christensen then drew a parallel between the evolution of the computer industry and what is slowly taking place in healthcare. Initially, people had to take their problems to the sites... View Details
- 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
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
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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
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- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
introduction of a very general class of unobserved heterogeneity on agents' preferences. Under minimal assumptions, we show existence and uniqueness of equilibrium. We provide two algorithms to compute the equilibria in our model. The... View Details
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- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
Imagine you walk into a shop where you don’t know the prices. Maybe it’s a Turkish souk, redolent with smells of saffron and turmeric. Or maybe it’s a New Hampshire antique store, full of dusty shelves of enticing oddities. You pick out your silk scarf or ceramic... View Details
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
When science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dreamed of the metaverse—a term he coined in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—he envisioned a long city street that’s “always garish and brilliant, like Las Vegas freed from constraints of physics and finance.” While Las Vegas... View Details