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- 05 Feb 2016
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The Wheel of the World
contains close to 20,000 items). “I realized that I was more interested in the ideas expressed in the mechanisms than in owning the physical objects,” he says. “Time is a central element of the human experience, which, understandably,...
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Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
distribution center that is quick and low-cost to set up, inexpensive to operate, and easy to change anywhere in the world. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz encountered inefficiencies in order fulfillment while working at an...
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Dennison to mechanize the production of watches, a technique recently applied to firearms. Dennison, an artisan watchmaker underemployed throughout the crisis years, calculated that interchangeable parts could dramatically reduce the high...
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Science out into the open - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
corridors with powerhouse sturdiness continuously banked with glass windows look in upon scientifically lighted laboratories in which a multitude of mechanical devices and scientific instruments of today’s knowledge are spaciously...
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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
of a study cited in the column that associated companies utilizing mechanisms for paying attention to "emerging customers" with the fostering of "disruptive technologies" raised some eyebrows. As Christophe Meili put...
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by James Heskett
- 24 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020
engineering and business." Jeff Chen BE & BBA, Mechanical Engineering and General Business Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "I am most excited by the unique experiences that the MS/MBA:...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
was a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He also held an MA in industrial engineering from Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. in decision sciences from the...
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Ryann Noe
Economics looks at the architecture and mechanics of systems, and English provides the stories of the people who populate those systems. Similarly, my PhD program sits at the crossroads of management and sociology.” Ryann says that she...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
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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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Tomaskovic-Devey , University of Massachusetts, Amherst What Works? Internal and External Mechanisms for Equal Opportunity Shelley Correll , Stanford University Delivering on Diversity: A Framework for Motivating Cultural Change Susan...
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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
include faculty from U.S. and international institutions, HBS faculty, alumni, and practitioners from a range of industries. The symposium will feature panel presentations and interactive sessions exploring the relationship between research and practice and addressing...
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- 18 Jan 2016
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Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative
Initiative faculty chair Robin Ely and the latest results from the Life and Leadership After HBS alumni study. The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative provides a mechanism for connecting multiple streams of research happening within the...
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- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show that...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
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From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
innovation framework to advancing education and health care. Referring to HBS as a “distribution mechanism by which we can help people that we could not directly reach,” Christensen encourages alumni to consider their relationship with...
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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
on the role of the families controlling these groups focuses on the mechanisms of family intervention in company management that are effective in creating value. In another project with HBS assistant professor Jan W. Rivkin that utilizes...
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by Peter Jacobs
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Robert Kimmel
ColorMatrix Corporation. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and spent time as a marketing associate for the Scotch Tape division at 3M. Prior to HBS, Robert worked as a Technical Marketing Representative at ABB (Asea Brown Boveri). Robert has a View Details
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
for bureaucrats. A sample recommendation is that the WHO should “devise a regular, independent, transparent and objective assessment mechanism to evaluate country performance” against precise benchmarks defined in conjunction with member...
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- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
traditional applications like mechanical patents. Quantifying these technology differences is very important for business managers and public policymakers, but these differences also provide researchers an empirical foothold for...
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- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
works, whose prices will likely be lower without the floor-setting mechanisms and associated costs of intermediaries. Khaire explained that in the western world, there is a clear understanding of what is considered "good art" (a...
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