Nuclear - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

contends that policy makers more often reacted to political motives and pressure from business interests, while couching their actions in green language. In fact, government activities such as electrification of rural America and large-scale investment in View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2002
News

Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

For several decades, the career path of Alfred L. Cheauré (MBA '71) was fairly straightforward. A first-generation immigrant American from Germany, Cheauré grew up in New Jersey and attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his 27-year service in the Navy as a View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

and licensed to practice radiology in the United States. The data set included 2.7 million scans read by the radiologists for 1,431 customers over a 30-month period. Nearly 85 percent of the scans were CT; roughly 10 percent were ultrasound; and X-ray, MRI, and View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

Management for Corporate Leaders in 2010, says she's still following up with both banks and plans to turn the research into teaching case studies. She's also looking at how risk management works in industries such as electrical and View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

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Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change - Course Catalog

To what should we devote our lives? The world is on fire. There is war in the Ukraine, Yemen and the Middle East. Rising tension between the great powers raises the real possibility of nuclear exchange. Faltering growth, huge investments... View Details

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-052 Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change? Environmental activist groups have traditionally opposed nuclear... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Motherhood and the MBA

all. Before coming to HBS, Katie spent 7.5 years as a Surface Nuclear Warfare Officer in the US Navy. After making the transition out of the Navy in late 2012, she welcomed son Lincoln (now aged three) into the world. Katie was able to... View Details

15 Jun 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

to arms. Innovation Through Fusion: Combining Innovative Ideas to Create High Impact Solutions by CJ Meadows (DBA 1996) De Gruyter Just as nuclear fusion produces massive energy by combining two nuclei, a fusion in business, technology,... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

of Severodvinsk, Russia, Natalia Mlotok has witnessed the stark effects of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev’s program of economic, political, and social restructuring. Located on the White Sea in northern Russia, Mlotok’s hometown was built on the manufacture and repair... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

thousands of hackers who flock to the cracks found in existing network architecture daily. Results may include leaked emails, drained bank accounts, and the destruction of production facilities (as Iranian nuclear scientists found out).... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

brink of nuclear annihilation, and only a few people are aware of it. A riveting story of how two men’s lives intersect in the midst of an existential crisis, The Able Archers is told through the eyes of two key participants: a young... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

Harbour Group invested in Babcock & Wilcox, an energy and construction company. Blue Harbour developed an investment thesis around Babcock & Wilcox spinning off its non-nuclear, coal-based energy segments and focused on being a defense and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

increasingly aggressive rival as the century lengthens. These threats will take on many forms including terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the breakout of wars with the potential to become nuclear exchanges.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

with General Dynamics Electric Boat to prepare people to build nuclear submarines for the US Navy and work with Bank of America on programs that prepare individuals for jobs in the financial services sector. We also have a partnership... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

proposals but invested in only a small percentage of them. The firm's prized portfolio companies included Circo Products (automobile tools); High Voltage Engineering Corp (high-powered generators and nuclear particle accelerators);... 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 focus on building a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2018
News

Getting Life Back in Balance

as a squadron leader. The RAAF took Gower all over the world. He chased diesel submarines in the Mediterranean and nuclear submarines in the Arctic; commanded counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean and peace-keeping operations in... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Complex Number Calculator is demonstrated by George Stiblitz 1941 A. Philip Randolph threatens march on Washington to protest racial discrimination in defense jobs 1942 Enrico Fermi's University of Chicago team produces the first controlled, self-sustaining View Details

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

semiconductors. Its Shirakawa plant is located in Fukushima, close to the epicenter of the earthquake and near the site of the nuclear power plant troubles. That plant is responsible for 22% of the world's supply of silicon wafers, and it... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

economic sacrifice of reorienting toward Europe," Abdelal writes. "The central theme of Lithuania's economic policies was the victory of the long view over the short." Pragmatic Belarus Belarus after 1991 was larger, richer and stronger than Lithuania.... View Details