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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
handheld e-readers that can download and carry thousands of books, newspapers, and blogs in one device. E Ink will continue to be based in Cambridge. Wilcox views the injection of resources as essential to speeding up E Ink’s R&D process...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking about poetry, which he writes...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Seattle, Isaiah Kacyvenski (MBA 2011), all 250 pounds of him, was motoring full speed downfield on kick-off coverage, intent on destroying the St. Louis Rams returner. That's when a huge blindside block leveled him, probably rendering him...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
enterprises as it is to startups. Gaining Speed Following Stevenson's return to HBS, two events in the early 1980s helped shape the study and scope of entrepreneurship at the School. The first, a 1983 colloquium on entrepreneurship...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
together and be able to draw upon shared stockpiles of key materials. Looking ahead to the other side of the surge, where do you see space for optimism in the future of health care delivery? PS: The speed and ferocity with which the...
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- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
themselves. That's sometimes the disconnect that I have with people that they may not understand what I'm saying. Some of the things I've been dreading is just the internet nut heads and just the constant speed that America goes at....
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
being performed. “The key to anything we do is to stay on a very, very tight feedback loop between analysis, insight, and implementation,” says Hodges. Digging into the data keeps that loop turning with all the speed of a ballerina’s...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and the craftsmen involved in producing them. The Accelerating World: Speed vs. Control by Emmanuel Cassimatis (MBA 2009) (Emmanuel Cassimatis) Over the past five decades, several mysterious and seemingly unrelated events have taken...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. False promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
with the D2C option, mainly because speed is of the essence to establish a market position before someone else does. I would consider partnering with real estate companies but worry that they’d want to capture some of the value or put too...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
evocative word. Can you elaborate? We are living in an age in which we are simply much more tired! laughter It’s the white-hot speed of the information revolution. It’s the technology that’s brought an astounding amount of choice, not to...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
structures and systems as well as reconciling the varying speeds at which divisions within a company may develop. Merson explores these different aspects of growth and outlines strategies and tactics to enable businesses to move forward...
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- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
of Business Administration; Emilie Billaud, assistant director; and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, research associate. The case explores how Unilever, the UK-based consumer goods giant, has implemented an initiative to accelerate the speed of...
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- 06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
faculty, students, staff, and alumni groups about the challenges we face and the opportunities we see, the few important initiatives that I've heard individuals tell me about. First, I think implementing with speed and urgency the...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
match, “The Big Durian” after the sweet Southeast Asian fruit that emits such an overwhelming stench of blue cheese and sweaty gym clothes that it is banned by most airlines and hotels. The key to making life in Jakarta a little easier is View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
speed their recovery in a friendly, noninstitutional environment. The hospital’s advertising consists of word of mouth, and Shouldice’s popularity is such that former patients (“alumni”) return by the hundreds for reunions. The hospital...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
fiercely competitive market for outdoor wear and gear. GoLite’s mission sounds simple and logical enough — give serious trail runners, alpine athletes, fast-packers (backpackers who speed along trails), and even once-discouraged hikers...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
developments of 3-D seismic data acquisition and horizontal drilling techniques that increase the speed and accuracy of locating and tapping pockets of oil. "On the one hand, this technology enables us to find reserves more cheaply and...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
everyone, and Steve Abernethy had published a list of individuals who had been contacted. The speed and caring with which this was done was overwhelming." Similarly, Laura Petrucci (MBA '80) reported that her section had accounted for all...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg