Engineering - Publications - Faculty & Research

November – December 2009
Article

Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company

By: Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom

Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Programs; Learning; Failure; Business Strategy; Organizations; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Design; Sweden

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2002
Working Paper

Where Do Transactions Come From? A Perspective from Engineering Design

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim Clark

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Blog Post

How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)

What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked at Tesla as a design engineer and project manager. I had the opportunity to work on groundbreaking products alongside some of the smartest and most... View Details

January 1992
Article

Engines of Progress V: New England Electric Systems NEES Energy

By: R. M. Kanter, G. Quinn and J. North

Keywords: Energy Industry; United States

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20 May 2021
Podcast

Making a Marketplace for Captured Carbon: Steve Oldham, Carbon Engineering

Many of the innovators we’ve spoken with this season are launching technologies or business models that produce less carbon than status quo approaches – leather made from mushrooms instead of cows, for example, and vehicles that run on electricity instead of fossil... View Details

May 1993 (Revised January 1994)
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Cummins Engine Company, The: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant

By: Robert H. Hayes

Cummins Engine Co. is starting up production of diesel engine crankshafts in its plant in central Mexico. This operation requires much tighter tolerances than any product previously produced at the plant, and the young (recent MBA) manager who is in charge of the... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Production; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Industrial Products Industry; Mexico; Alabama

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Video

Admissions Video Blog: Kaelyn Griffin on the MS/MBA Engineering Program

April 1980
Supplement

Cummins Engine Co.: Managerial Philosophy, Personal Style, and Corporate Culture, Video

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23 May 2008
News

Foreign Hires, Offshoring Part of Japan's Response to Engineering Drought

10 Aug 2017

Future Leadership: MBA + Engineering Multi-School Event In San Francisco

Please join us for this multi-school event to learn more about the new MS/MBA joint degree program at Harvard. View Details

03 Aug 2017

Future Leadership: MBA + Engineering Multi-School Event In Cambridge, MA

Please join us for this multi-school event to learn more about the new MS/MBA joint degree program at Harvard. View Details

June 1980 (Revised September 1980)
Background Note

Some Criteria for Evaluating Your Work on the Process Engineering Proposal

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

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15 Dec 2016
News

Trump must see that small business is the engine of America

27 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

Watch Video We recently sat down with entrepreneur and HBS alumnus Robb Fitzsimmons (MBA 2016) to talk about the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program - and the ways it will benefit future leaders of technology ventures. Here's what he... View Details

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MBA > Academic-experience > Joint Degree Programs > Engineering Sciences | MBA

MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Joint degree with Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences through the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Play Harvard MS/MBA View Details

Other Article

Why I Volunteer at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

By: Scott Duke Kominers

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21 Jan 2008
Other Presentation

Competitiveness as an Engine for Economic Growth: Implications for Saudi Arabia

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2006 (World... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Saudi Arabia

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22 Oct 2014

HBS 2+2 Information Session at Dartmouth College Thayer School of Engineering

Join us to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA program at HBS. The event will include a presentation and an opportunity to ask questions to an Admissions Officer. Registration is not required but encouraged. The session will begin at 6:00 PM EST in... View Details

2018
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Insight into Gender Differences in STEM: Evidence from Peer Reviews in an Engineering Class

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Bruce Ankenman and Seyed Iravani

As the service industry moves toward self-service, peer feedback serves a critical role in this shift for educational services. Peer feedback is a process by which students provide feedback to each other. One of its major benefits is that it enables students to become... View Details

Keywords: Peer Review; Peer Feedback; STEM Education; Anonymity; Education; Gender; Education Industry

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