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- 01 Jun 2022
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Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
Carole Hubscher (PMD 73, 1998) remembers the first box of Caran d’Ache colored pencils she received as a child: the smell of hewn wood, the rainbow of bright hues, and the sense of unlimited possibilities. “You think, what am I going to do with all these colors? There...
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April White
- 20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
in 2015, Sounouvou had recently launched Exportunity, a secure digital marketplace that connects African suppliers with buyers around the world. Through the company’s platform, farmers in Benin can sell their produce to a View Details
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April White
- 25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Say “Green Cheese”
HOUSENBOLD: Picture perfect. All over America, shoeboxes full of print photos are gathering dust. But hard copy is not dead: There’s a growing demand for homemade picture books and scrapbooks whose pages people can design online themselves and fill with their own View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
encountered at a subsequent role in Raytheon’s missile defense program. Highly technical specifications were often tracked in low-tech Excel spreadsheets, which meant engineers lost considerable time to paperwork. That was frustrating, but even more alarming was the...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
implemented nationwide 5G coverage in 2019 and is providing a preview of hyper-connected life of the near future—and the kind of ecosystems that will take shape. “The arrival of 5G is a concrete example of how digital technology is being...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2004
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Working the Street
destined to succeed his father, William R. Timken Jr. (MBA 1962), at the helm of The Timken Company, the Canton, Ohio–based multinational manufacturing firm. Indeed, Kurt worked at Timken for five years before HBS, followed by three years...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
entrepreneurial course development. The Management of New Enterprises course of 1947 was joined in the 1950s by Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SME), taught by Frank Tucker and W.A. Hosmer. In 1970, MNE essentially merged with SME and...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Alumni Books The Crimson Emperor: A Tale of Imperial Byzantium by Wim Baren, i.e., Barry Wemple (MBA 1973) (Amazon Digital Services) In this romantic tale, a weapon-maker’s son becomes a deadly warrior and military commander, rising to...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
quantum computing are paying attention. In addition to BASF, Merck, and LG, the chip manufacturer NVIDIA, which produces the digital GPUs that power AI systems, is working with SEEQC to integrate the...
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- 05 Oct 2022
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Inside the Chip Shortage
Photo via Digital Chosun Photo via Digital Chosun The shortage of semiconductors that has hamstrung the automotive industry since 2020 isn’t over yet, and Renesas CEO Hidetoshi Shibata (MBA 2001) predicts...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds
manufactured goods go to waste in the production process, Philip Behn says, because items come out too thick, too thin, or otherwise not perfect. “So we put our own private label on them and now we sell broken pretzel bits.” As much as 15...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Quantum Leap
little like the digital computers of the midcentury: enormous, primitive, and unreliable, says Jim Ricotta (MBA 1985), CEO of Aliro Quantum Technologies. We’re also constrained by the limited number of qubits (or quantum bits) that these...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
the world who said this is the only way to listen to music. But today a new generation raised on digital music is also taking notice. Is reemergence a short-lived trend? Reemergent technologies often communicate authenticity, community,...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
everything from R&D and manufacturing to marketing (the company also owns a small plant in South Hadley, Massachusetts). That vision, which Wilcox attributes to MIT professor Joe Jacobson, was nothing less than the ability to hold all of...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Charged Up
Image by Digital Art/Corbis Related Links Listen to a podcast of Professors Rawi Abdelal, Forest Reinhardt, and Richard Vietor discussing the future of energy The catch-all “green” category covers a range of industries, from wind and...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
says. “And that was overly optimistic; it worked only when everything clicked.” The subsequent national conversation about minimizing risk through reshoring—that is, bringing American manufacturing facilities back to the United...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Carving a Niche
for a long time, the major ski manufacturers just kept doing what worked last year.” Meanwhile, snowboarding companies were pushing the limits of production technology and design. The Faction Collective, where Hoye is cofounder and CEO,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
managers are able to e-mail a digital picture of any questionable item to Hong Kong for an instant assessment. But it is Li & Fung’s StudioDirect service that has investors buzzing. For a long time, the company has built a solid...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
2,000 conventional ventilators for a population of 210 million people. “When ventilator shortages became an issue in the United States, we knew we had a proven product that could help,” says Gupta. The company moved quickly to establish a View Details