Machinery and Machining - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jul 2022
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Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

12 May 2022
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Why Digital Is a State of Mind, Not Just a Skill Set

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

out of proportion with the real facts." Penning a 1957 cover story titled "These Machines Are Morons," an AMP graduate highlighted the difficulties of the ten-year process of converting from punch cards to the latest technology - the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

buy a new computer, you don't throw away your old software. You may have a new machine that's running your software faster and faster, but the software was still written a while ago. Do you remember whether... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

plants in Germany, Holland, and South Africa, "all with very little bank debt," according to Andresen. Its work force expanded from 70 to over 600, and the company enjoyed the highest productivity rate among... View Details

13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith on Shark Tank (photos by ABC) How did you come up with the idea for Zorpads? Sierra Smith: “We started Zorpads as part of a school project for FIELD 3 (which apparently no longer exists as required... View Details

09 Dec 2019
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Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check

How did you come to focus on algorithmic pricing? In my doctoral work at MIT, I was studying optimization, probability, and machine learning, which are essentially mathematical tools that enable us to use data to make better decisions. From there, I realized I wanted... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

last minute was the junior cost accounting trainee at an automotives machining plant, wherein I learned the wisdom of going on for further education, the discipline of making sure all the numbers actually add up across View Details

18 Feb 2013
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Has American innovation stalled?

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

atoms. But what we can do is simple experiments and simulations to predict important properties of molecules, like how much it might cost to synthesize. The other part is using machine learning to connect... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge