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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
also played a role in launching the world’s largest software maker: Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote their first PC software using a DEC computer. (Library of Congress) Body armor While serving in World War II, Doriot...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
taken seriously." Nevertheless, he decided that his new software program was better suited to PC use. Before long, Bricklin and Frankston had launched their first product: VisiCalc, the first commercially available electronic spreadsheet....
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now offers on Sprint PCS Web-enabled...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation
the great equalizer,” says Gibbons, who himself makes use of voice-recognition software on his PC and a portable, computerized organizer that uses a Braille-audio interface. The challenge, he observes, is convincing employers that with...
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- 07 May 2019
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How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding prospects for investment. Around that...
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- 18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
and mobile technology in particular, has the potential to be a tremendous tool for empowerment. There are now two billion people across the world with Internet access through handheld touchscreen devices. Cheaper handsets are allowing entire nations to leapfrog over...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office suite of products, Ballmer dismissed the challengers as caring more about altruism than profit. He insisted there will continue to be demand for Microsoft software that delivers feature-rich capabilities to View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
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New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
of minicomputers created more of a midpoint (clinics) before desktop PCs became prevalent (home healthcare and services such as MinuteClinic). "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can provide more...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
year, more than 150 first-year cases had software that was specifically designed to help students analyze cases. PC use eventually became commonplace in second-year courses and exams as well. (More than 90 percent of all exams today are...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward
have to be affordable. “From day one, we said we would use common, off-the-shelf hardware—regular PCs and security cameras—to figure out how to solve the problem,” says Kundu. “We wanted to avoid the classic mistake of creating technology...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
included fax numbers. Cell phones did exist, but they were rare, heavy as a brick, and available only to a privileged few. States — and in some cases entire U.S. regions — had just one area code. Numbers-crunching was done by hand with an HP-12C. Nobody had even heard...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
Yoffie added that in the near future, "we won't be talking about Internet companies as something distinct because the Net will be so integrated into everything we do." That integration, panelist Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal noted, will be hastened when...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
more, the Jiffy Lube woman comes out car's ready! The nearest Kinko's is only two blocks away. I load Norton Utilities onto my laptop, and it miraculously recovers all the data on my doomed floppy. I pop the disk into one of the PCs at...
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- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S. private equity at executive search...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
for smaller classes, longer school days, and lots of innovation. "The answer is not just more PCs in the classroom," Doerr emphasized, as he called for the development of more charter schools and stricter standards of school...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
dot-coms, to security windows, to a PC for children, to a gadget that makes the knot in neckties. Nine corporations, including General Motors, Veridicom, Anderson Windows, FitSense Technology, and Lynx System Developers, sponsored student...
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Margie Kelley
- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
pretty typical these days, and there was malware on his computer that had gotten to him via a phishing attack. Phishing: 99% of all the problems start with you or me, the carbon pieces of this equation, making a mistake. The malware hopped from his View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
to PCs and hence to the Net." Thus, Azuela expects the bulk of Internet growth will occur in the B2B sector and wireless applications. Auction house DeRemate.com, currently a leader in the region's consumer Internet sector, has a growth...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
cognitive problem. The PCs simply did not make sense to DEC, given their customer context and their cost structure/business model. “Disruptive Tech 101” When Clay Christensen speaks of disruptive and sustaining technologies, he uses the...
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