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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
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three things: the Central African Republic to replace Mali and Somalia as Africa's worst hot spot; the 2016 US presidential race will begin to hog the news and quickly annoy you; and I'll be lost somewhere in the sands of View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
value creation through holder identity and community formation, which has been explored in everything from NFT-based affinity networks to customer rewards programs from companies such as Starbucks. Ownership In a Web3 world, tokens enable...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
FairMarket is an online auction house that allows companies with surplus computers and computer components to sell to the highest bidder. "We make the distribution chain more efficient by acting as a centralized market for such...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
observes Steve Nelson (MBA ’88), executive director of the MBA Program. “In that time, Spangler has become so much a part of the fabric of the HBS community. We had 32 buildings spread across a 40-acre campus, but no central space for...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
puzzled through the fragments of his history, my mom and I did our best to fill in the gaps. Clinical decisions are only as good as the information you have to make them. As competent and well-meaning as my dad’s doctors were, they lacked the best possible information....
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human impact on climate change. The solution turned out to be so...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
I’ve told my straight friends about problems like this, they express surprise and ask what they can do to help.” That’s where Friendfactor comes in. The enterprise is developing a social networking platform that will launch this fall to...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
investigate some kind of central challenge to the broader society,” Thomas says. “How about a trek to the Sudan, or a trek to look at public education in places where school systems face major challenges?” D’Avella adds that the work in...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community...
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Julia Hanna
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
position as “capital of the heartland” (making it a magnet for graduates of the Midwest’s top universities), its relatively low cost of living (number 10 in the nation), and its position as a central aviation hub as just a few of the...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
to be more art than science), and the equipment is costly. To overcome those challenges, he centralized the smoking in a single commissary, where the meats are smoked and flash frozen. The third obstacle was more perplexing. “Barbecue is...
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April White
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Clubs News Clubs News Boston Alumni Find Leadership Inspiration in Project Impact Series Hunger and food insecurity. Racial justice. Youth and education. These issues have served as the central organizing topics for Project Impact, the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US. “Many of them were 20 years or more past graduation, from the Class of 1967 to the present, and mostly MBAs and some Executive Education alumni,” says Oliveau. The location of the summit...
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Margie Kelley
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
from small- and medium-sized farms and ship it to our warehouses, where we prepare the orders. After the order is prepared, we ship the orders using a decentralized network of drivers to the group buyers, who handle the last-mile-delivery...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators. Workers in India’s Anganwadi...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
When he graduated from high school in 1994, Will Hsu (MBA 2006) had no plans to take over his father’s ginseng farm—there just didn’t seem to be a future in it. Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises Inc. was one of the largest operations in central...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
ago, how central concepts such as interconnectivity and the Internet would be by the time we gathered here in 1996." "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the planning for this conference began years ago, how View Details
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
generates more than $1 billion annually in ad revenues. That puts the Internet ahead of two long-established media sectors, network radio and billboards. In a new working paper titled "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry"...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
live broadcasts. And here was the person in charge of the world’s largest sports network saying things weren’t looking so sunny for the sports broadcasting model. “For the first time, it felt like there were some tangible numbers to what...
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