Engineering - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jan 2025
News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

and long term and recognize how companies’ accounting and finance policies impact performance. The virtual, interactive platform was unique. I was continuously engaged with the course's material and learned a lot from my peers. Kaushal Khodifad Senior Systems View Details

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Dashoriya Engineering Manager at Quizlet at Infosys Prepare for, or acclimate to, new leadership roles in which you’ll be faced with making difficult decisions. "For me, that connection from textbook to reality made the courses memorable,... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

to spend time indoors. The other is prison.) ... Here’s a weird but helpful way to think about all of this indoor time, courtesy of Rich Corsi, dean of engineering and computer science at Portland State University, an outstanding building... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Jun 2004
News

Life Lessons

already compiled a Texas-sized résumé. But he’d rather talk about his HBS classmates than himself. Declares Staats, “Every day, I’m amazed by the phenomenal people and interactions to be found here.” Staats, who is a 1997 Ph.D. graduate in electrical View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

innovator, and 4) bold business experimentation. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609066 Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Harvard Business School Case 609-018... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

great program for CEOs as does the Inc. CEO Project, YPO, etc. but there are also niche peer groups like VPE Forum that specialize in engineering leaders. It may take some time to find the right group, so be patient. You’ll know when... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

social inequality." Romuald Kepa added: "The invention of the steam engine and resulting shifts in the society are great providers of insight… Luckily, (the) world did not collapse " Others were not so sure that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

intended victim. (Ironically, in the meantime we have learned that the "worm" that attacked Iran's nuclear centrifuges and sent them whirling out of control and into self-destruction in all likelihood was carefully engineered... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

students, but also those from Harvard’s medical school, engineering school, and public policy and health school—understand how to disseminate their health care innovation ideas. If they are very serious about it, the second course, a... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Sep 2019
News

Clicks and Mortar

will move your purchasing to the digital space after visiting the pop-ups, so it’s not meant to be a channel of distribution; it’s an acquisition engine and a way to make a brand splash in a particular market. AM: Warby Parker also has... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Aug 2001
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Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

emphasizes the importance of intellectual property rights, and the "fairly transparent and efficient" nature of the FDA. Maintaining this competitive advantage, he noted, requires the reversal of two alarming trends: a decline in the number of trained scientists and... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

depending on your point of view. Here's a management that may actually believe it can achieve wins for customers and investors by engineering a win for employees, something that several of us have written about for years. Walmart's... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

workers with heterogeneous human capital interface with machine learning, relative to the older Boolean search technology. We randomly assign individuals with and without computer science and engineering (CS&E) knowledge bases to each... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

409-021 Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where... View Details