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  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

workers with heterogeneous human capital interface with machine learning, relative to the older Boolean search technology. We randomly assign individuals with and without computer science and engineering... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    Malcolm P. Baker

    Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

    His research is in the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation
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    2+2 Program - MBA

    Undergraduate Majors Arts/Humanities Business/Commerce Economics Engineering Math/Physical Sciences Social Sciences Why an MBA at HBS? “This school gives you the opportunity to... View Details
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    Joint Degree Programs - MBA

    Dental Medicine We partner with HSDM to offer the DMD/MBA. Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences We partner with SEAS to offer the MS/MBA: Engineering View Details
    • March 2007 (Revised April 2007)
    • Case

    The University of Utah and the Computer Graphics Revolution

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
    Computer science departments were new to universities in the 1960s, and the one created at the University of Utah by David Evans and Ivan Sutherland had a research mission to invent the field of computer graphics. Details the research process that led to many of the... View Details
    Keywords: Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Computer Industry; Education Industry; Utah
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    Curriculum - MBA

    of their risk/reward profiles. Includes a series of live case studies with industry leaders of established and emerging biotechnology companies as guest speakers, focusing on the underlying science and View Details
    • 23 Sep 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University

    • May 2008 (Revised May 2008)
    • Case

    Symyx Technologies, Inc.

    By: H. Kent Bowen, Courtney Purrington and Thomas D. Perry
    Symyx is a science-based company spun out of Berkeley. Its unique materials technology has been exploited for 10 years, but the company needs a new business model. The company concept required the invention of hardware and software to do high throughput materials... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Transition; Engineering; Technological Innovation; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software
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    • January 2012 (Revised January 2014)
    • Case

    Mexico City Water Shortage

    By: John D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James and Frederik Nellemann
    In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe water shortage in Mexico City, a great global capital. The protagonist is a real estate investor doing due diligence on the magnitude of the... View Details
    Keywords: Infrastructure; Environmental Sustainability; Urban Development; Mexico City
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    Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA

    the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Degree Admissions Staff 22 NOV 2019 | MBA Admissions After demonstrating exceptional math and computer science talent at Duke University, and... View Details
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    Faculty & Advisors - MBA

    School. He teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, a required first-year MBA course, and Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences, an elective course for second-year students. Jim Tananbaum MBA ‘91, Harvard Business School; MD, Harvard-MIT Health View Details
    • 08 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 8, 2015

    The UPower founders, Jake DeWitte and Caroline Cochran, were recent graduates from MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. They chose to attend Palo Alto–based Y Combinator's accelerator program to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates

      Abstract

      Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details

      • 01 Aug 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

      and unemployment rates," the paper states. The researchers studied not only the program's effect on American jobs, but also its effect on innovation in general. "The bigger goal was to try to understand the impact of science and View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
      • January 2018
      • Case

      Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather

      By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia
      It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Venture Capital; Investment Strategy; Investment; Strategy; Ownership; Valuation; Energy Conservation; Equity; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Efficiency; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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      Events - MBA

      MBA Programs MS/MBA "Ask Me Anything" Hear directly from current MS/MBA Engineering Sciences and MS/MBA Biotechnology alumni and students regarding their experience. They will be prepared to answer all of... View Details
      • 27 Aug 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

      effort. "To maintain a leadership position globally, the United States needs high value-added products and services to be the engine of its economy," says HBS professor emeritus Kent Bowen, organizer of the colloquium. "One... View Details
      Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
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      Capstone - MBA

      MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Capstone Each student develops a capstone project in their second year of studies that challenges them to perform an in-depth structured scientific and business analysis of a biotechnology opportunity.... View Details

        Howard H. Stevenson

        Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

        Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
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        Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS - MBA

        Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID MD/MBA MS/MBA Biotechnology:... View Details