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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

Planning at Walt Disney Animation Studios. In this highly creative environment, she supported the studio through a fundamental digital transformation process while supporting continued business growth and innovation. In 2018, Ann became a member of the Academy of... View Details

28 Nov 2018
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On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

knew from previous experience leading data science at Gap Inc. that consumers get frustrated with slow mobile apps. To him, the most important engineering requirement was providing users with a response to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

as EC) New Venture Competition — Student Business Track and Student Social Enterprise Track President’s Innovation Challenge Harvard College i3 Innovation Challenge — organized by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and... View Details

March 2021 (Revised January 2023)
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The Trouble with TCE

By: Vincent Pons, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein

Trichloroethylene, or TCE, was a chemical used by tens of thousands of businesses in the United States. It was an affordable tool for many. Yet, TCE had been associated with important health risks, including cancer and autoimmune disease. TCE potentially posed other... View Details

Keywords: Trichloroethylene; Toxicity; Lobbying; Chemicals; Health Disorders; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry; United States

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24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Davida Bynum

created a deeply enriching environment for me. Outside of schoolwork, she encouraged me to participate in in performing arts, mock government, sports, cheerleading, church activities, and engineering camps. I even attended an aviation... View Details

26 Aug 2024
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HBS Lingo 101

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Together with HBS, SEAS offers a two-year MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences degree. The two-year program aims to educate future leaders... View Details

28 Feb 2024

MS/MBA Virtual Chat with Current Students and Alumni

Hear directly from current MS/MBA Engineering Sciences and MS/MBA Biotechnology alumni and students regarding their experience. Students and alumni will share their backgrounds and paths to the HBS MS/MBA,... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. 2014 Working Paper Bridging Science and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih Scientific... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

their origins about three decades ago, the Behavioral Science areas of economics, ethics and managerial psychology have been rapidly evolving. In the 1980's and 1990's, early work by Max Bazerman in judgment and negotiation , Matthew... View Details

12 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

breakthroughs may hit the discard pile before companies can evaluate them in full—causing companies to miss out on big competitive leaps, write the researchers in their working paper. Lane, who is affiliated with the Laboratory for Innovation View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

(“NOFO”) with at least one unconventional provision: a pre-application (“pre-app”) to the actual application for parts of $39 billion in direct semiconductor manufacturing incentives. The funding had been made available through the U.S. Department of Commerce by the... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

consumer-fitness experience and grounded it in medical science for a chronic disease population?” asks Lee, a 2023–2024 Blavatnik Fellow who will spend her fellowship year developing and testing an on-demand video prototype. Exercise can... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Stagnation (12) Economic Systems (14) Economics (393) Economy (16) Education (118) Emerging Markets (14) Emotions (21) Employee Ownership (1) Employee Relationship Management (61) Employees (83) Employment (15) Energy Conservation (7) Energy Generation (1) Energy... View Details

21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

necessary? Choudhury and his fellow researchers were interested in finding out whether having a background in computer science and engineering (CS&E) would improve patent workers’ ability to use the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

01 Mar 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

student in high school, she graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering before moving on to MIT for a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics and a position at Orbital Sciences Corporation,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Partners - Case Method Project

White Plains High School White Plains, NY NY 22 of 63 Lisa Kapp Saint Ann's School Brooklyn Heights, NY NY 23 of 63 June Kasi High School For Math, Science And Engineering @ CCNY New York, NY NY 24 of 63... View Details

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations' responses to cultural distance. Using historically motivated instrumental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2023

MS/MBA Information Session and Virtual Q&A

Join HBS MS/MBA students to learn more about the MS/MBA Engineering Sciences and MS/MBA Biotechnology programs at Harvard. You've got questions - we've got the answers! View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. The two-story, 15,000-square-foot facility on Harvard’s Allston campus is a... View Details

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