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- 20 Aug 2020
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From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
and back again to a local Radio Shack to buy parts for a succession of gadgets: homemade robots, hovercrafts, a solar-powered cooker, and devices to keep his siblings out of his room.” That passion continued to grow throughout Bezos’...
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
openhearth furnace allows businesses to expand nationwide Influence: Medium 101910s19 First widespread use of auto assembly line Self-starter increases popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 201920s19 KDKA, first radio station...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
air,” and told Torn he might want to try acting as well. Torn tried to dissuade him—Hartley was an engineer, he’d gone to business school, acting wasn’t for him. Okay, Hartley said. But what if I decide to try anyway? What would you tell me? Torn, who went on to win...
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Julia Hanna
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The Gift of Global Talent
2018 | Managing the Future of Work Professor Bill Kerr talks with co-host Professor Joe Fuller about his new book on global talent. Talent, Bill argues, is the world’s most precious resource. Professor Bill Kerr View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
stay-at-home mompreneurs, the work got done in whatever bits of time she could steal from the day. When her daughter, Della, enrolled in a dance class in Harlem that year, Dixon would drive her Jetta wagon with “WOKE” plates and SiriusXM View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
came to Vertex in 2017, there was a medicine finishing early clinical trials with the potential to serve up to 90 percent of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). In October 2019 that became Trikafta. Now CF patients talk to me about...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
important in shaping who we are as businesspeople," echoes David E. Simmons (MBA '85), president of Simmons Family, Inc., a firm established by Roy Simmons in 1978 that owns and operates radio stations in the western United States. "The...
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
201920s19 KDKA, first radio station First talking movie, Influence: Medium 301930s19 Advances in aviation Nylon Fiberglass Instant photography Air-conditioning begins to realize commercial potential...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first...
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- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
even within that difficulty, I saw such a compassionate side of humanity that I was truly inspired. So I put out this radio appeal in a country that's not my own, and just said, "We've come from India. We have a daughter and can you...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Former Chairman Landmark Communications, Inc. Frank Batten has delivered hundreds of speeches on the media, philanthropy, and education. The fact that most of these talks were given after his larynx had been removed is a testament to his...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up for Grabs
governorship of California. Alluding to the cash-strapped Golden State’s financial predicament, Whitman said, “Honestly, when I talk about spending, I get mad. I simply cannot understand how even politicians could have let things get so...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
tour promoting his first book, MouthSounds: How to Whistle, Pop, Click, and Honk Your Way to Social Success, the same fly imitation landed Newman a job as the host of Nickelodeon’s teen talk show Livewire. Since then he has hosted The...
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- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
relating to the radio company, which was completely fascinating because it gave us an excuse to talk to eight of the biggest firms in Kigali about their marketing strategy and to compare how they did...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
“blind,” with a raising-gang foreman guiding him through the process with radioed instructions. No wonder he’s not the most talkative person you’ll ever meet. The guy has a lot on his mind. “It’s like I’ve...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
who also headed a think tank for creating patentable business ideas. "When Jay first started talking about the principles that would shape Priceline, I knew we were really on to something," Brier says. Once Priceline was up and running,...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
bridge club: “What do I tell people you do?” In HBS terms, I’m the creative director of my multi-hundred-dollar corporation, Talking Dog Productions Inc. But I’m just a storyteller—across different media. Having a corporation insulated...
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April White
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
faculty, whose scholarship and teaching skills attract hundreds of Harvard MBA students to their classrooms each year. Among the latest books by HBS historians are publications by Professor Chandler, Professor Nancy Koehn, and Professor Richard Tedlow. Leading Research...
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by Jim Aisner
- 01 Dec 2022
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I Gave at the Office
Julian Zlatev and Christine Exley (Image by John Ritter) Both Associate Professor Christine Exley and Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev apply the tools of their research to examine a simple question: What makes people give? Exley became interested in the topic as a...
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