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- 01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination
FLEMING: Scientists make wrong assumptions about MBAs. PHOTO BY STUART ROSNER Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he “wanted to study more than electrons.” Even so,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Thinking globally about business challenges and people's lives
Stever Robbins (MBA 1991) is a serial entrepreneur who applies an engineering mindset to solving problems for companies and coaching people through career and life changes. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
engineers devoted a good chunk of 2015 and most of 2016 to developing a drone that could be piloted in real time through a complex, three-dimensional course of gates and obstacles. That meant creating a lightning-fast radio system and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Visit Dean Nohria's page Watch Dean Nohria at Fall Reunion (LEFA login required) Fresh out of a highly competitive engineering school in Mumbai, 22-year-old Nitin Nohria aspired to pursue his interest in business, earn an MBA in America,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
partnership helped them find errors in the initial version, as well as add new features to it." Such collaboration allows a search engine like Yahoo!, for example, to respond to customer requirements by adding new types of personalized... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
age of 12. He earned a degree in engineering from MIT but decided to pursue a career in business because it offered more diversity than engineering. After graduating from HBS, he worked at Citibank for thirteen years and then returned to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
process of change in a developing country. His 1970 book, Engines of Change: United States Interests and Revolution in Latin America, inspired the U.S. Congress to establish the Inter-American Foundation, an independent agency devoted to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
engines of entrepreneurship and business. This is why we must continue to educate students to become business leaders who innovate, create value, and operate efficiently. At the same time, there has been great pressure from business... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
Animation by Richard Borge Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA Candidate) HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA Candidate) HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix? The opportunity—and necessity—of carbon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
A Club for the Cosmos
interested in opportunities in space can join the Aerospace and Aviation Club. Copresidents are Yosuke Hosoi (HBS 2016), who has interned at ASTROSCALE and Planetary Resources, and Alexander Wulz (HBS 2016), an engineer from GE Aviation;... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
drive the ship rather than just keep it running,” she explains. While Iyer’s focus is on the business side, she marvels at the creative side. “I’m excited to be in this environment, constantly meeting people such as artists and engineers... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Barron (MBA 1972) Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products Division, Xerox Corporation Dance, dance revolution: “I studied modern dance in college; the originality of the choreography attracted me, but it... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
father and son, bringing to the table all the tensions, expectations, and disappointments that had built up between them over a lifetime. READ MORE Moving Mountains—Kathy Barco & Barco-Duval Engineering Minding Families' Business—Philippe... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews on... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
General Electric 1997 Named President and CEO, GE Aircraft Engines 2000 Named Chairman and CEO, 3M 2005 Named Chairman, President, and CEO, Boeing 2015 Named CEO of the Year by Chief Executive magazine 2016 Retires from Boeing Retired... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
to that,” he says. The ability to build something new, especially the critical thinking required of such a task, was foremost among the skills McMinn honed at HBS, he says. “It taught me to think for myself, not to regurgitate facts and figures back to a professor. For... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
elective taught by faculty adviser and senior lecturer Daniel Isenberg. EGG: Engineering Global Growth. Why Africa? Alla “So many people see Africa as a place of violence and corruption. Having lived there, I see it as a market like any... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
been a powerful model that’s been replicated for other development and investment programs,” Bloom explains. “For the MCC, private investment is clearly the ultimate engine of growth and therefore of poverty reduction. We explicitly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Saving the Steel Industry
USW would insist that executive pay be limited and that union representatives serve on the board. “We’re not going to save a company and go back to the old way of doing things,” explained Bloom, who engineered numerous steel-industry... View Details