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06 May 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

ideas with two of the same friends I had tried starting a company with earlier. Timing worked out well, as one of these friends had also just started business school at Sloan. To target our brainstorming, we focused specifically on how our backgrounds in View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

something new, which shows that you can’t create a computerized system with all the answers, not yet. There are human factors and emotions involved beyond the probability statistics. But that’s what makes this work fascinating—otherwise we would have View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 May 2018
News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

investment outlook in the region, and was moderated by Blair Pickerell (MBA 1984), Former Chairman, Asia of Nikko Asset Management and Chairman of Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong. Robotics concept wins HBSAHK Startup... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting

professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to the heart of the tech industry. This year’s trek came at an especially exciting time, with breakthroughs in generative AI, quantum computing, cloud computing, and View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Books

Japan was most competitive internationally — such as cars, video products, and robotics — government played a relatively minor role. By contrast, the country was least competitive in industries such as chemicals, aircraft, and software... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Sep 2021
News

Growing Home

Robots, the local basketball team. The Ibaraki Robots have now, in five years, grown its revenues eight times, grown attendance five times, and been promoted to a top category league just like the NBA in the US . The second thing we did... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

14 May 2015
Blog Post

Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students

at HBS. It is not just the absolute desire and determination to start a business that I enjoy; it is also how diverse the set of ideas are. For example, during my last office hours, one student was working on a consumer robotics idea for... View Details

18 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek

participated in an intimate Q&A meeting with Allbird’s co-founder Joey Zwillenger (and his dog!) and sat down for coffee with Deeksha Hebbar, VP of Operations at Sonder. Other classmates watched 3D printers pop out cars at Zoox and mingled with View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Ready for Departure

require assistance at any point in the airport can use digital screens with video-calling functionality to connect with a virtual ambassador service to have their questions answered. The terminals—with more than one million square meters of flooring—are kept clean by a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Chris Gash; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

play. It wasn’t clear if, or how, a movie would ever fit into this point of view. When Lin first approached Lego, the company hedged, asking him to consider working on a specific play theme like Lego’s robot line Bionicle—making the Lego... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Faculty & Advisors MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Faculty Robert D. Howe MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair for SEAS Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering at SEAS; Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard MS/MBA Program; Director, Harvard Biorobotics Lab; cofounder,... View Details

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

Thinking-Not Feeling-Jobs By: Waytz, Adam, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Technological innovations have produced robots capable of jobs that, until recently, only humans could perform. The present research explores the psychology of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA

I would encourage students today to pursue opportunities in this space and prepare for these types of roles by studying the emerging technologies – e.g. AI/ML, Robotics etc and how they impact health care. They can do that through... View Details

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

from growers to buyers, a deliberate choice made by balancing cost and practicality. The auction, along with the transfer of flowers, occurs for just a few hours each morning. This limited operational window makes it cost-prohibitive to invest in View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

Cisco Systems, Netscape, Wired magazine, and the Palm Computing division of U.S. Robotics - hosted ninety-minute information sessions at their companies. CEOs and other senior managers, including some company founders, presented the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

This blog was originally published in 2021. Brandon Tseng (MBA 2017) remembers his aha moment. It was April 2015, and Tseng was a US Navy SEAL approaching the end of seven years’ service; his next step would be Harvard Business School. Tseng was reading about a... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

market against the more incumbent and larger companies, particularly during times with great uncertainty.” About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: coldsnowstorm] Related Reading Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto Thirty years ago, the idea of a machine learning on its own would have stoked the worst kind of sci-fi nightmares about robots taking over the planet. These days, machine learning is so commonplace, we barely notice... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

developed over the past four decades that have transformed the nature of supply chains. These include "postponement" (delaying until the last possible moment the assembly of components or modules), computer-aided manufacture and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

catalyst technology. RAB LABXin Ma, MBA 2023RAB LAB facilitates robotics fabrication of 3D printed housing units with the autonomous design system and adaptive components made of sustainable structural materials. Our mission is to... View Details

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