Word: intranets
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...centerpiece of this transition is the HBS intranet...
...intranet is just an implementation of the Internet with limited access, usually to a site...
...exceeds analytical throughput." (Don't you hate it when that happens?) @Large's first product, Sasson says with a smile, is "one of the simplest for marketing people to explain." And he's right, sort of. It's software that enables employees to file expense reports on a corporate intranet. (What's an intranet? Ask Trent Lott.) The sales brochure promises a "Thin Client" with "Rich Java GUI," which sounds like it's pushing a dietetic dessert...
...these guys in it to improve the world or make money? "It's one of those situations where they coincide," Bellenson says. Sasson won't get sucked into highfalutin moral speculation, commenting only on the excitement of the intranet. America's high-tech culture has indeed combined doing well and doing good--getting rich and making the world a better place--with more success, probably, than any similar-size group of people in the history of the world. And for biotech, especially, the miracles are just beginning. If the citizens of this Other Beltway wish to believe they're doing...
This past year, the HBS installed an intranet--a network like the Internet, but limited to members of the HBS community--and students and faculty are feeling its profound affects on learning and research...