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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
engine manufacturing division of United Technologies, offered him a post managing a joint venture in Taipei, Taiwan. Keohane had chosen the company because its global operations presented many “right-sized” general management... View Details
- 01 Jul 2018
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
within their reach. We can find new ways to leverage the fact that we are part of a great university—including building programmatic bridges with our future neighbor in Allston, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Singapore Star
engineering at Cambridge University, he set his sights on Harvard for postgraduate education. The Singapore government, for its part, thought that was a good move too, but felt that Yeo could best serve his country by earning a Master of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
Terceros, HBX Live participant, chemical engineering administrator “HBX Live felt like a real classroom, or even like an enhanced classroom. The experience is so well designed and supported that I felt like I was sitting in the same room... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
situation of being able to characterize their income separately depending on the audience. Something as simple as interest expense can be engineered to be an expense for tax authorities and a dividend for capital markets. This confusing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
reinvented ourselves: The engineer became an investment banker, the consultant became an entrepreneur, the corporate tool became a vagabond. But years later, how many of us have the courage to disrupt our lives again? How many of us... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
advertisers, historical and real-time traffic information to insurance underwriters, and more. Mistele was a Detroit kid, the son of a lawyer, who had an early interest in technology. “When I was in high school, I worked for an electrical View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
became an online business, and seven to eight years later we’re the largest search engine for out-of-school enrichment for students in middle and high school. We have licensing agreements with national partners like Hobsons; we publish... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
golf.” Out of office: “I paint landscapes and portraiture.” It’s a hobby Motley’s pursued since the age of four. Fork in the road: “Engineering versus art school. My dad made that decision for me, and I ended up in engineering school.”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
nine associated firms specializing in the manufacture and repair of turbine engines for the aircraft and other industries. But in addition to his business career, Twaalfhoven has long carried the flag for the cause of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
their citizens’ long-term interests. So I decided to go over to the dark side and act. I joined up as a ship’s engineer on the 200-foot vessel Steve Irwin, which set sail out of Hobart, Tasmania, toward Antarctica. On a stunning, sunny... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
proficient in English, or risk demotion. “I was simply astonished,” said one engineer interviewed after the announcement. “Many Rakuten employees are allergic to English.” At Rakuten, an online shopping mall that does not sell to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
electric motorcycle, launching in August. “Riding an electric motorcycle is an exhilarating experience, as it provides instant torque. It also has a jet engine sound that changes with acceleration. Moving away from a clutch to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
their membership. This year's candidates are: Thomas E. Everhart, AB '53, magna cum laude; MS '55, UCLA; PhD '58, University of Cambridge, England. President Emeritus and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, California... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
team of four experts in fields such as biochemistry, molecular biology, and electrical engineering from Harvard, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts. Just three years into developing a proprietary freezing process, they’ve already... View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
- News
The Future of GE
advances in data collection and analysis to, for example, improve jet engine performance and fuel efficiency. “Everybody who joins G.E. is going to learn to code,” Immelt said. “We hire 4,000 to 5,000 college grads every year, and whether... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
Yeo, "is developing human capital, because the country is so small and resource-scarce." A scholarship student at the University of Toronto, Yeo received a degree in industrial engineering in 1970 and then returned home where he earned a... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
One is a very scientific mission and the other is a commercial mission. On the scientific side, our objective is literally to reverse engineer the human neocortex. Figure out how the brain works. That is the core of who we are and why... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was named one of "Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years" by PBS. Mr. George received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
accountability, transparency, and trust; those three things will be even more important in the future.” When he was tapped to head GE in 2001, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at the storied company that pioneered the development of... View Details