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Amanda Pratt
were very analytical and process oriented," she says. But there's another side to Amanda, one that wants to explore options and is willing to embrace novelty. Instead of going to a traditional engineering school, she chose a new... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
$134,438 for the Class of 2005. Another uptick was measured in the number of graduates entering the financial services industry, with a shift from 36 percent to 42 percent. Kierstead observes that the Class of 2006 is the first to... View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
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Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
intelligent choice so important to effectively functioning markets. Worse yet, the financial products were created by financial engineers motivated to make them complex and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in... View Details
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LaToya Marc
don't want to know how to build one car," she says. "I want to know how to build one hundred cars in less time and for less money. Of all the engineering disciplines, industrial gave me the greatest opportunity to think about... View Details
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Allen Yang
PepsiCo's foodservice division, and became a product engineer at a start-up, Yipit, an online aggregator of daily deal services, such as Groupon and LivingSocial. "Being accepted to HBS gave me the courage to try new things,"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
Mike Zak (MBA 1981) After studying engineering at Cornell and serving four years in the Marine Corps, Mike Zak (MBA 1981) arrived at HBS in 1979, one of only a handful of military veterans in his class. The transition was not easy. “I... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
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Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
financial aid for MBA students, with a preference for US Marine Corps veterans. “My two biggest influences have been the Marines and Harvard,” says Burt, who after attending Princeton on an NROTC scholarship served three years in the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
the next phase of his career. “I see business playing an increasingly important role in the aerospace industry, going beyond just having the engineering know-how to build a spacecraft. In the past, spacecraft were primarily built and... View Details
Carissa Bryce Christensen
Carissa Bryce Christensen is the founder and CEO of BryceTech LLC, an analytics and engineering firm serving clients with deep tech-enabled missions, including NASA and the US Department of Defense. Known for driving strategy with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
initiatives. He also was chair of the Finance unit (1986–88) and senior associate dean, director of Faculty Planning (1988–94). He took a leave of absence in 1977–79 to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Comings and Goings
2006 Class Size 895 Women 34% International 32% Minorities 21% Median Age 27 Total Countries 67 Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 38% Business Administration 24% Engineering 21% Natural Sciences 8% Other 9% Class of 2004... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Faculty & Advisors MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Faculty Robert D. Howe MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair for SEAS Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering at SEAS; Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard... View Details
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Mo Fong
Mo Fong (HBS ‘02, Stanford ‘95 ChemE, ‘96 MA Education ) Mo is currently the Executive Director at Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the School of Management and Engineering focusing on entrepreneurship research, programs and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
academic ventures. Debuting this spring, the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP) was designed and will be taught by faculty from HBS, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard’s Faculty of... View Details
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Robert Kimmel
ColorMatrix Corporation. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and spent time as a marketing associate for the Scotch Tape division at 3M. Prior to HBS, Robert worked as a Technical Marketing Representative at ABB (Asea Brown Boveri). Robert has a Mechanical View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
be the beneficiaries of the possible rebirth of owners' capitalism? Will the use of capital be improved through the leveraging of underleveraged assets by owners who can bring superior financial engineering... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Kendall Brinker
Kendall Brinker is driven by a passion for the auto industry. Although her university was "overwhelmingly male," she found a great number of female colleagues who shared her enthusiasm in the Industrial Engineering program.... View Details