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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
computing changes the way people use data to make decisions. “We’re seeing more of analytics and big data as a means not just to support the decision a person wants to make, but also as a way to provide... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
employees were overwhelmingly white.) Then there are the stories. Although few women working in the field will offer details of personal encounters with sexism and sexual harassment, they hear them frequently. In the past year, they’ve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved (degenerated?), I believe someone used the computer lab’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
hospital bed in jeans and Chuck Taylors, mussed brown hair, smiling just enough to reveal dimples, with his hand out in front of him, holding two small white pills. "First dose of HT-100. That's it," she says, pulling up the photo on the View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
Datar." Alumni were energized to be back together in person again at the event, which was cohosted by the School, the HBS Association of Southern California. The gathering took place at the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
Health Care: Data-Driven Diagnosis Robert Wah (AMP 175, 2008) President, American Medical Association; Global Chief Medical Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation “We’re entering the third phase of health information technology. The first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that plane who boarded on time," she says. "But then there is this person who really cannot read. And she is a customer. And we want her on our plane. But how do we teach her how to fly?" The first-time flyer market in Brazil has risen... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
idea in the possession of a person with only average ability.” (Gordon College Archives) The digital revolution One of Doriot’s earliest ARD outlays was $70,000 for 70 percent of Digital Equipment Corporation, which would go on to become... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
filmed in 52 countries. Setting a record can be a lot of work. If you are going to go for it, consider an individual record—fewer logistics—and know what your mission is, why you are doing it. I’m not trying to break a personal Guinness... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A New Day for Fellowships
family established a financial aid fund in 1995. As a donor and the son of a fellowship recipient, Petersmeyer urged attendees to “concentrate on value, not on worth” and stressed the importance of personal relationships. Fellowship... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
could stray from an assignment to write market assessments and instead create a start-up business plan. “The professor was Walt Salmon, and fortunately he was all for it,” recalls Cassidy, who eventually made good on the plan to launch Stylus Innovation, a View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
holds an expanding personal collection of NFTs, sat down with the Bulletin last spring to talk about trust and transparency, and what a crypto future could look like. Scott, in the article “Bitcoin and Beyond,” you and coauthors Christian... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
start your own business?’ ” she recalls. “My answer was that I’m the person who sets the direction and gets things done, but I don’t have an idea for a business.” That changed when she reconnected with Mark, an old friend from Yale whom... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) Deputy Director of Education, Next Generation Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Illustrations by Peter Hoey TAILORED TEACHING "One of our anchors is View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
entrepreneurship as a trip on a roller coaster, not a rocket ship,” says HBS professor and entrepreneurship expert Bill Sahlman, an early investor in E Ink and longtime adviser to Wilcox. “Very few companies go straight up, and E Ink is no exception. It’s come close to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
an MBA. It had to do with output to the client of a new computer system in New York City. The day after Columbus Day, no one was in the office, and I looked at the reports that had come out that were going to the client. And it looked odd... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
Whoever coined the adage, "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it," must have had David Hughes in mind. Cheerful and rock steady, Hughes demonstrates an uncanny ability to continually absorb new projects and activities. As... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
edge of the most dramatic changes in our history. After earning an engineering degree, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force with the Strategic Air Command, America ’s first line of defense during the Cold War against Soviet ambitions. He joined IBM just as the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
functions of the Web and wireless protocols," says Azuela. "That gives you an idea of how far we have to go in educating the market. Further affecting the growth of the Internet are problems of regulation, inadequate infrastructure, and simple economics — lack of View Details