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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
government-funded effort to develop radar in World War II spawned a new high-tech industry. Led by an organization stood up to conduct and manage radar R&D - the MIT Radiation Laboratory - it brought together researchers and firms without...
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- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
exposure to radiation was unlikely. Truck drivers were refusing to deliver supplies to the city. Niinami intuitively understood that reopening a convenience store there would bring back a sense of normalcy and create hope for the city’s...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
concentration of volume by medical condition to fewer locations. Numerous studies have shown that technically difficult procedures, such as surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy administration, have been associated with higher...
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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
pots and pans and numerous other items, became chairman of Alcoa. Edward Prizer, who became president of Vacuum Oil in 1918, made his reputation by organizing the firm's domestic and foreign sales operations. Clarence Mott Woolley, president of the American View Details
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by Laura Linard
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but...
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- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
effective targets. Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer ToolRadiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used to deliver an oncologist's skills for View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
mitigating the risk of contagion. Other examples of this in the past have been less extreme, but include, for example, medical device advancement developed in response to a rise in consumer awareness of radiation risk. We recently...
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by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School SEAS: David Parkes, George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science LIFE Lab How can we effectively craft our lives and continue to learn from each other’s experiences as part of our lifelong...
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Clarence M. Woolley
With the financing help of JP Morgan, Woolley’s American Radiator came to control just about every heating equipment manufacturer in the United States. Seeing that a greater market for gas radiators existed...
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Fabricated Goods
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
fundamentally changes the world,” he says. "Anything with a cord or a disposable battery is a candidate for being replaced." The technology, which generates less radiation than Earth’s magnetic field, allows the user to beam electricity...
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- Portrait Project
Katy Lankester
because you don't look like that." It feels as futile as fighting gravity, but I have learned to quiet that voice. Fourteen years later, I have days when it is silent. Those days are soaring freedom; the world radiates potential. I'm...
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Rahima Dosani
in a world where everyone else can say their name without a second thought. I will embody the happiness she missed out on. I will radiate the undying gratitude and empathy I learned from her. And I will use love, in all its multifaceted...
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Jordan Bazinsky
contraption. But why stop at the edges of my own yard? I will build an organization that empowers others to create safe and healthy homes. The depth of poverty and malnutrition in our world is overwhelming but addressing the problem doesn't need to be — it starts with...
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Emilka Valentova
tears, and hugs. Empowerment. I realized that sharing the darkness made my star shine bright. I finally feel comfortable in my own skin. I connect better with people. I radiate an inner light. With my second chance, I will share and help...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
1942 to 1946). He was appointed the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking in 1967 and took on the title emeritus in 1975. During World War II, he served as an instructor in the Army Air Forces Statistical School on the HBS campus, as well as a staff...
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- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
professor told me that physicists can work as engineers, but that engineers can never work as physicists," he recalls. That single conversation was the spark for a career at NASA. Earls' undergraduate work was followed by a master's in View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5 percent of the solar radiation...
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April White
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
management skills and pitch in on disaster clean-up—to both learn and grow as human beings,” he recalls. “But my first concern was how to keep everyone safe from radiation poisoning.” Toward that end, MIT Media Lab researchers devised a...
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Benjamin Story
Buzz Lightyear attraction in Disneyland Paris, and as a producer within Disney's virtual-reality technology group. "On one level, we were creating a fully-functioning simulation for a new attraction, the Radiator Springs Racers,...
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