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- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was...
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- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
embarked on a path that would lead him to become a pioneer in database marketing and customer engagement. While working as a research assistant at HBS after graduation, Brierley agreed to help the headquarters of his undergraduate fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, find...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
over speed in the fulfillment process. Walden aims to build a community of home cooks who are connected to local farms in a meaningful way, not simply a transactional purchase. The Question: With year-over-year growth at 75 to 100...
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- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
discuss—master bedroom suites, home schooling, the passion for genealogy, extreme sports, organic foods, alternative health, and the profound popularity of the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Capitalism will find its renewal in these social...
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by Martha Lagace
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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services
large numbers of files while also running large numbers of (simultaneous) jobs can adversely affect others users' home and project folders. Please contact RCS if you have any questions. Poorly behaved jobs or ones in the wrong queue may...
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- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
(MBA 2023) - There are 15 million homes in the US with a one in four chance of total asset loss due to flooding, RESILIFT will end that threat to American Housing. PARTICIPANTS - BUSINESS TRACK AgX - Maxwell Leef (MBA 2025), Callum...
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- 16 Dec 2021
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A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
fill the gaps in the production of personal protective equipment (PPE). Many stepped in to fight hunger, provide support for health professionals and frontline workers, deploy technology in new ways that helped communities thrive, and make learning and working at View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
each category—met in mid-April at the Rock Center to give one last 90-second pitch to the judges and audience. In each category, the Grand Prize winner took home $75,000; the Runner-up $25,000; and the Crowd Favorite $5,000. Applications...
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Europe - Global Activities 2021
Sweden—Lovisa “Lisa” Tengberg (MBA 2020) found that the topic was much more complicated. She had to understand the broader challenges of assimilating the massive influx of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees hoping to find new homes in...
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- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
starting a new company, you have to be on the ground. Forget about technology, hiring a CTO, or getting a bunch of engineers. You need to be on the ground, talking to customers and acquiring suppliers. Later on, a new company can figure out what technology it needs to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
how you were going about managing processes or configuring work that you’re going to take forward and change permanently based on this kind of crucible that Covid proved for so many employers?Rivers: Well, speaking for the 60 percent who are remote and working from...
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- 30 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)
at WB, I worked with a cross-functional team of six executives on this new business and potential revenue generating opportunity for WB. We presented to the CEO, and the project evolved to what is now Stage 13 at Warner Bros., establishing a View Details
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just Digital Future interview...
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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
day, 7 days a week and is available from one's own home without a trip. While Amazon has been compared to Walmart, it's probably most apt to compare Amazon to category killers. Amazon's sales are only a fraction of Walmart's, but like...
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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that I think nobody I know really understood," Light said. To illustrate his point about the interlocking nature of housing and the U.S. financial system, Light said that for decades beginning in the 1930s, the ratio...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
pandemic has accelerated many of the dynamics that are transforming work. Those include the way work gets done, automation and remote work, and the context in which it takes place amid rising social tensions and economic inequality. As we...
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- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
upskilling and re-skilling, and right-skilling has really come home to roost and will have to be dealt with in the post pandemic environment. I often ask clients who are struggling with talent shortages, just as a hypothetical, “Where do...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
1991): to provide continuous Internet access to the planet’s unconnected billions through, in Cassidy’s words, a “complex choreography where thousands of balloons are being steered and programmed all in an automated fashion.” The...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and connect with people around the company. And in terms of work-life balance, we had a little bit of a unique start, where Peter and I were in our 30s and early 40s when we started the company; we had young kids; we wanted to get home...
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