Engineers - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the view of an organization as a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

private equity and public companies "changes the ownership structure of assets and alters the incentives and governance mechanisms that surround the economic engine of our economy." During a recent interview in his Rock Center... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

(CRUK). At CRUK’s innovation engine Cancer Research Horizons, Keemia commercialized promising academic research through partnerships with the life sciences industry, leading the negotiation of two $25 million oncology research funding... View Details

19 Jun 2018
News

Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

alumni and guests gathered at the HYP Club. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) was founded in 1883 and is now the world’s largest manufacturer of paints, coatings and specialty materials, with $15 billion in sales. McGarry, a mechanical View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

department a number of tokens it can "spend" annually on engineering work to build custom features—boosting the odds of signing contracts with new customers. In December 2010, a request for proposal from a very large utility... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0705C Assessing and Improving the Safety of Internet Search Engines Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:In The Power of Search Engines, edited by Marcel Machill and Markus... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

of the province, Marcos McGrath, establish a cooperative movement that helped some 3000 impoverished peasants. A book, Engines of Change, resulted from this and subsequent research in several other poor regions of Latin America. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

04 May 2018
News

How to Win the Kentucky Derby

impact and the number of people. I'll give you an example. In New York state, the horse racing business, they employ over 40,000 people. And the economic impact is above $5 billion every year. So it's an engine that really, I think,... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

01 Jun 2014
News

What’s Next

potential to be a vibrant academic and enterprise zone where HBS, Harvard, and the Allston community intersect in ways that will unleash innovation. One especially exciting early development is the plan for the School of Engineering and... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

hardship for entrepreneurial high-tech firms that do not have the cash to attract and retain the engineers and executives who translate entrepreneurial ideas into profitable, long-term growth. This argument is flawed on a number of... View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

09 Mar 2021
News

A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible

free education and workplace skills training,” he says. “Why wait?” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Bridging the Gap Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today’s Challenges Community Colleges as View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Mar 2020
News

Signal Boost

In the early 1990s, Gloria Lara (MBA 1983) found herself in a debate with five male engineers on Chrysler’s development floor as they tossed around the idea of two sliding doors for the minivan, as opposed to only one on the right-hand... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

"business is an extraordinary force for good." While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

"little-noticed commodities to hot products" due to their ability to sprout disease-resistant crops with higher nutritional values. The next step? "Agriceuticals," or crops that have been engineered to have higher medicinal value. An... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

believe that we can just take existing processes for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and improve them through optimizing the chemical engineering process. The fundamental bottleneck that controls the economics of direct-air... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

all sorts of people in all sorts of situations helping to provide at least some degree of leadership. A project engineer might take some initiative. Because of his or her leadership, a small group of people is mobilized to find and... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

06 Nov 2012
Op-Ed

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

so that volunteers (often customers, but also others) can easily contribute content (opinions and ratings for Zagat guides), "stuff for sale" (eBay online marketplace), behavioral data (Google's search engine algorithm), and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

but 5G dreamers see the potential of this kind of innovation expanding exponentially and being the real engine of growth into the next industrial revolution. McKinsey’s Center for Advanced Connectivity has identified use cases across... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

think the young people will sit back and let capitalism work the way it has before. “I have great hope and faith we are going to address this issue I don’t see any other answer than to fix,” McCarthy said. “This university and others need to be major players in it.... View Details

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