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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
Summary Action: Major David Gurfein, while serving as Officer-in-Charge, Task Force “Bold Eagle Bravo”, I Marine Expeditionary Force, 20 March 2003, performed his duties in a professional and heroic manner. View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
robot, meant for simpler jobs like unpacking boxes; Sawyer is a one-armed robot designed for more precise tasks like placing memory cards into motherboards. The humanizing is intentional and essential to...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1997
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Go Team!
January cohort students attempt to swish ten free throws as one of many tasks in a "treasure hunt" that took place in February as part of Technology and Operations Management's Project Management module. The hunt involved student teams in...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
innovation task of designing can be crowdsourced. Local Motors has a community of over 25,000 designers and engineers that is continually innovating for the firm. Who could...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM...
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Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2004
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
task force to help publicize the upcoming Global Leadership Forum at club meetings and events. In addition, the committee has appointed a task force for club membership development, club renewal, and...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
“Contact tracing is a 500-year-old solution. It was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR...
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- 12 Feb 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Photography by Gary Laufman “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native Pakistan, working for a microfinance education nonprofit, when she was tasked with photographing students in a...
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Jill Radsken
- 06 Oct 2022
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Untapped Potential
Courtesy Tom Ferguson “Climate change is really water change,” says Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014). From the deadly floods that deluged western Europe in the summer of 2021, to the once-in-a-century drought conditions that have ravaged Brazil for three years, and the...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map
We are at the dawn of a new epoch in the world of science, one that will cast strong light on a unique corner of the biotechnology field known as genomics. The designation refers to the study of genes, those chemical building blocks of...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2018
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Collaborative Cures
as well as additional funding for activities such as due diligence, market research, and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. Since its launch in 2013, fellows have created 17 companies in...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
dedicated to making a difference in the world by taking leadership roles that will have a significant impact on corporate policy and public affairs,” commented HBS Dean Jay Light. The culmination of a multiyear effort by faculty and administrative View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
will prove vastly superior to classical computers at complex, resource-intensive tasks like training AI systems, optimizing supply chains, or designing airplanes and automobiles. According to Kumar, many...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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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 was View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
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Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and implement a complex process to produce electronic circuit boards. During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to View Details
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Educational Innovation
- 01 Dec 1998
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64) Continuing education (lifelong learning) has emerged as one of the School's highest priorities and can be viewed as one of the major building blocks for long-term connectedness to the School. This committee will continue to define continuing...
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- 26 Apr 2011
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Do You See What I See?
(HAM), where Director of Education Ray Williams and Senior Museum Educator Corinne Zimmermann lead the students in a guided exercise that draws on the museum’s diverse collection to reinforce and expand upon aha moments from the classroom. For Williams, the View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
compete for a $50,000 grand prize and a $25,000 second prize—plus meet this year's Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. The contest, designed to support promising alumni ventures, is hosted by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and...
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- 05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential
technologies and providing services that are designed to improve water management worldwide. Already, the fund has invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address such pressing problems as flood tracking, water waste and reuse,...
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