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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
wasn’t true—there were land mines, left over from years of conflict. Those had to be cleared before cell phone towers and the maintenance roads leading to them could be built. Available maps and government statistics were often inaccurate—one team of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree
lives is front of mind for me because the role energy in society has had an outsized influence on my life. Ultimately, my ambition is to leverage my experiences, network, and newly gained knowledge base from my time at Harvard to help View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
engineering development and construction projects. In what ways are the challenges of managing large, complex projects different from the challenges of managing other large industrial activities? How is it possible to evaluate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
stock prices had been reached. Despite Fisher's poor prediction on that occasion, he played a neglected, but significant role in the growth of the forecasting industry and in the rise of a class of early business analysts. An Interdisciplinary Model for Effective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Twice a day, this saltwater tidal estuary—river is a misnomer—reverses its direction with the regularity of a Swiss watch, sloshing back and forth between New York Bay and Long Island Sound. This precision allows Verdant’s engineers to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
inventing many of the core digital technologies of the past half-century. But it is by no means the only way to support the growth of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Universities, for example, play a crucial role in training the engineers... View Details
- April 2009 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
Petrobras in Ecuador (A)
By: Aldo Musacchio, Lena G. Goldberg and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
On October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and... View Details
Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Government Administration; Taxation; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Brazil; Ecuador
Musacchio, Aldo, Lena G. Goldberg, and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Petrobras in Ecuador (A)." Harvard Business School Case 309-107, April 2009. (Revised August 2009.)
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-011.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBuro Happold (Abridged) Robert G. Eccles and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 412-123 In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business
As a chemical engineer considering an MBA, I wanted more to learn and gain mastery of business principles with both breadth and depth. Like nearly everything else in the modern world, the business landscape has become quite complex and... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was just a really stupid accident,"... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
essential connections between, for instance, groups that focus on research, those that focus on programming, and those that focus on policy. “What we want to do is apply business principles: How can we bring a curation engine that’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
our technology investments," he said. "Web services are the perfect, customizable technology to meet that 'have it your way' need," said Rose O'Donnell, vice president of engineering at Bowstreet. With that said, she... View Details
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John Rogers
most look forward to in my career. How has HBS prepared you for your summer internship & long term career? HBS has helped prepared me both personally and professionally to tackle the challenges and maximize the opportunities I will face throughout my career. As an... View Details
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Class Profile | MBA
Average GPA (based on US schools that use a 4.0 grading system) Undergraduate Majors Arts / Humanities 5% Business / Commerce 24% Economics 19% Engineering 22% Math / Physical Sciences 18% Social Sciences 12% 5 Years Average Work... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
doctorate in biomedical engineering and readily admits he still identifies as a scientist, is equally excited about the big-picture impact of receiving orphan drug and rare pediatric disease designations. “Disabling hearing loss affects... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
will be held July 13Ð25, 1997. "It's an incredibly exciting time for the MIS Interest Group," says Nolan. "New technologies create new opportunities to capture economic value, and information technologies are the most robust technologies since the advent of the steam... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
explores the hidden world of statistics that rule individuals’ lives, jobs, commutes, vacations, food, health, money, and success. Statistics are how engineers calculate a person’s quality of life, how corporations determine individual... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. Meanwhile, search engines create an implied... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
with new EV models from VW and General Motors. “They are superior to internal combustion engine cars,” she said. And, there are efforts to make EVs more affordable. In early April of 2022, GM CEO Mary Barra announced a partnership with... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
capitalist system, and we should cherish it. At a time when people are losing trust in the role of business enterprise in society, it is your job to restore their confidence in this engine of human prosperity. You should also embrace the... View Details