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05 Aug 2015
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Pentagon Sends an Engineer and a Navy SEAL to Woo Silicon Valley

Keywords: Government

28 Jun 2023

Female and Focused on STEM - Inside the MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard

Get ready to be inspired as we bring together a remarkable panel of female current students and alumni from the Harvard MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program for a virtual Q&A. Whether you are a current STEM undergraduate student, an... View Details

2016
Working Paper

Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

By: Pian Shu

Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance

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December 2004
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D-Wave: An Interview with Seth Lloyd, Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering at MIT

By: Alan D. MacCormack

Keywords: Engineering

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

where engineer and entrepreneur Aaron Sabin comes in. “With modern science, we're building an understanding of how to reverse greenhouse gas emissions,” he says. “I want to bring the full weight of innovation to this effort to remove... View Details

June 2023
Case

Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

Verve Therapeutics, a public biotech company based in Boston, created a novel approach to addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) - a leading cause of deaths globally. The company's approach was a single shot treatment to permanently lower cholesterol, thus reducing... View Details

Keywords: AI; Genetic Engineering; Medicine; Health Care and Treatment; Genetics; Innovation Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Medical Specialties; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry

October 2020
Case

Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner

In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian state

November 1989 (Revised December 1990)
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Worldwide Motor Co.: Budgeting and Cost Control at the Chicago Engine Plant

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28 Jun 2023
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Female and Focused on STEM: Inside the Harvard MSMBA Engineering Sciences Program

14 Jan 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Production

Keywords: by Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani

22 May 2024
News

Leading The Future Workplace: Managers Must Be The Engineers Of Their Hybrid Teams

1995
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Notes on Modularity in Design and Innovation in Advanced Ceramics and Engineering Plastics

By: K. B. Clark

June 2002
Article

Who's Helping Whom: A Comparison of Helping Behavior among American and Indian Software Engineers

By: Leslie Perlow and John Weeks

Keywords: Applications and Software; Engineering; Behavior; United States; India

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January 2022 (Revised August 2022)
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Geely SEA: New Electric Vehicle Platforms

By: Willy C. Shih and Shu Lin

Kent Bovellan, the Chief Engineer and Head of the Vehicle Architecture Center for Geely Holding, the Hangzhou, China headquartered global automotive group, was debating the platform choice for an upcoming "D" segment midsized battery electric vehicle (BEV). He had led... View Details

Keywords: Product Innovation; Product Architecture; Product Engineering; Platform Design; Platform Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Product Design; Product Development; Cost Management; Decision Making; Competitive Strategy; Industry Structures; Auto Industry; China; Sweden

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

7 Reasons Why the New MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard is Next Level

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January 2021
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Andela: Africa's AWS for Talent

By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim

Five years after the company’s founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa’s greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an... View Details

Keywords: Education In Africa; Entrepreneur; Remote Work; Software Engineering; Edtech; Entrepreneurship; Education; Applications and Software; Engineering; Growth and Development Strategy; Africa

1 Nov 2010
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The Icelandic Geothermal Cluster: Enhancing Competitiveness and Creating a new Engine of Icelandic Growth

By: Michael E. Porter

Presentation on competitiveness and clusters View Details

Keywords: Economics; Iceland