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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
self, but also the innovation of the automobile industry globalized and the best place to get the sexiest sports car is probably in Italy. And the capital of raw engineering might be in Germany. And the most reliable cars come from Japan.... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
provide software developers in sectors ranging from video games to engineering simulation with training, tools, and support for application development tailored to exploit the unique capabilities of NVIDIA graphics processors.21 NVIDIA... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
government. The renewables world has significantly changed in the past 5 to 10 years though – our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
collection of startup aerospace engineering companies that were intent on disrupting the American space sector with new technologies, management approaches, and competitive pressure. NASA hoped to leverage New Space to outsource its... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
– our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered unbelievable cost improvements. If you take the cost competitiveness of renewables, the increasing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial banking followed, as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
do since I was a little kid. When I was younger, I thought engineering, math, and science were most important and that the rest didn’t matter. Now I realize exactly the opposite is true. Engineering is important if you want to make... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
cumulatively millions of largely men—but by no means completely men—with engineering talent and interest and ambition that say, where do I want to be? Morrell: So Silicon Valley became a talent magnet. And historically, when these big... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
search engine marketing and social media help? In 2008 Slanket CEO, Gary Clegg, found that his product, a blanket with sleeves, had been eclipsed by The Snuggie, another sleeved blanket. Snuggie made a brazen entry into the market with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
it hopes will be a long and intimate creative collaboration, providing the artist or band feedback on songs and setting them up with just the right producer and recording engineer to create a harmonious chemistry. In the case of labels... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that will reimagine health and other fields for decades more. Revenues at IBM have been in the red since 2012, yet analysts have pointed to Watson as the engine that can revitalize the company—as the potential through-line that will touch... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
institutions. On the back of their selfless work, we must remain optimistic that a solution will be found and provided for all. If civil society, more than government or the private sector, has been the little engine that has pulled us... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
reverse convertible note with payoffs linked to the price of Molycorp's common stock. These financially engineered securities were just one of many kinds of structured notes available in the retail market. Investors must decide whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
non-profit project-oriented setting, introduces fundamental risk management principles and processes that are easily applicable to private sector settings. Gentry Lee, senior systems engineer and de-facto chief risk officer, is applying a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
into bribery? How can CEOs manage and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other questions are raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: at the global engineering firm Siemens, the automaker VW, and the chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
When eight Investors' Circle members invested $2 million in Sonic Innovations, the company had a pre-money valuation of $5 million; seven years later, at IPO, the company's market value was $127 million. Evergreen Solar is a developer and manufacturer of photovoltaic... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
commitment to academics would see him earn a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester and eventually HBS. After HBS, Ed would begin a storied investment career, eventually becoming CEO of Ferman Selz. And it was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
enterprise. That is the engine that will keep development moving ahead." A Case for Performance Management In addition to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, HBS associate professor Alnoor Ebrahim has researched and written cases on... View Details