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- 01 Mar 2012
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Robots to the Rescue
process customers’ orders. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz first encountered the inefficiencies of traditional order fulfillment in 2000 while working at Webvan, an Internet-based grocery home-delivery service. “The company...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
where he instituted the Student Association/MBA Awards to complement the annual Dean's Award for exceptional leadership and service. "HBS students are just fantastic people," remarks Bolick. "I felt that it was important to have a View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
years, that’s an enormous technological transition. So the questions of how firms can organize themselves to do it, and what kinds of governance mechanisms will support and encourage them to do that, seem to me a natural extension of what...
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Margie Kelley
- 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle
investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early...
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- 29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
their respective sectors and possible solutions,” says Diagne. The discussions with the public and private sectors were instrumental in creating an inclusive mechanism and enabled Diagne to quickly grasp the country’s realities. After...
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Maureen Harmon
- 25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the...
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- 21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights
woman who had climbed Everest," he recalls. "She drew a lot of parallels to business, including team effort and setting goals." Analytical and methodical by nature, and a mechanical engineer by training, Petzel began thinking about making...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1997
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Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty employees strong, is creating a library of information about standard View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
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Tapping into Opportunity
rigorous, independent mechanism for identifying promising early-stage water-technology companies. She is using what she's learned from the competition to help get companies to invest in providing clean water in impoverished nations. In...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
corruption and criminality but also of commercial illegality. This shadow structure facilitates the hiding of money, be it from a murderous “godfather,” a corrupt official, or a tax-evading, transaction-manipulating executive; the system’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
her to return to her native Cairo and further her personal mission. “The GO: Africa Fellowship has made my work possible at MRC and I’m truly grateful for the presence of such a supportive mechanism for young alums who are igniting their...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
1776, by David McCullough In any survey of great American corporations that have left their mark on business history, IBM would always hold a special place. Its origins date back to the late 1880s, when mechanical time recorders and...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Faculty Books
a French aeronautic plant and shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers’ identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain control. On Competition, Updated and Expanded...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
Harvard to work at a Hartford insurance company. As Desai explains, “[I]nsurance tries to make sense of the chaos of the human experience by capitalizing on patterns, and then creating pooling mechanisms for us to be able to manage that...
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- 27 Apr 2017
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Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
lieutenant on the sub who managed teams of mechanical systems experts—men usually more experienced than she. “I tried to go in with a sense of humility but also with a level of confidence,” she explains. Strobel later served as an Office...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Alumni Books
measured? How does India’s accountability rank against other countries? Does accountability affect economic and social performance? He examines the mechanisms that hold governance institutions accountable, explains why many governance...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
And mechanisms exist to handle such contingencies both efficiently and effectively. Depending on the facts and circumstances, for instance, a job change could lead to a decision not to renominate an incumbent director. In a case of...
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Joseph Hinsey IV
- 23 Oct 2019
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Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science that I love, but I wanted the big-picture perspective and the...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
Almost everyone has dialed a simple phone number -- be it to order a pair of socks or reserve a flight to New York -- only to end up navigating through a seemingly endless labyrinth of options, all because a mechanical voice continually...
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- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
his musket factory. And I also look at Oliver Ames who was making shovels just down the road from the Business School in Easton, Massachusetts, mechanizing that process. Now we start to get things like the telegraph and the railroad and...
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