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  • 16 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together

At HBS, Fernando Czapski, MBA 2019, was seeking an internship that would help him fulfill his career transition from engineering to product development. At Zillow, Melissa Tran, University Recruiting Programs Specialist, was responsible... View Details
Keywords: Technology

    Jacqueline Ng Lane

    Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a co-Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard. She... View Details

    • October 1976 (Revised June 2008)
    • Case

    Chemalite, Inc.

    A chemical engineer who has set up a company to manufacture and market one of his inventions is trying to prepare his state of the corporation report. This case is designed to serve as a vehicle to introduce students to basic bookkeeping and accounting functions. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Business Startups; Valuation; Chemical Industry
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    • 31 Oct 2019
    • Video

    Anu Aga

    Anu Aga discusses the decision India-based engineering company Thermax took in 1996 to devote a specific share of profits to social spending, and to focus explicitly on education, supporting schools and the... View Details
    • 01 Aug 2014
    • News

    Kaplan Life Sciences Fellows Announced

    • Video

    SEAS/HBS Showcase Technology Event

    • October 2001 (Revised April 2002)
    • Case

    Calgene, Inc.

    By: Ray A. Goldberg and John T. Gourville
    In 1993, Calgene is on the verge of introducing the world's first genetically engineered plant product--a tomato will taste better and stay fresh longer. At the same time, it is using biotechnology to produce improved plant products for the cottonseed and the... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Launch; Innovation Strategy; Social Issues; Production; Problems and Challenges; Biotechnology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 03 Apr 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

    Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

      Joseph B. Lassiter

      Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

      Keywords: green technology; high technology; internet; oil ＆ gas; private equity (LBO funds); utilities; software; energy
      • October 2019
      • Supplement

      Airbus vs. Boeing (I): Airbus Introduces the A350 (2015)

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
      This case describes the introduction of Airbus’ A350XWB (Xtra Wide Body) in 2015. It also describes Airbus and Boeing’s current endeavors in 2015, including Airbus’ development of the A330neo (new engine option) , Boeing’s work on the 737 MAX, and Boeing’s announcement... View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; Air Transportation; Projects; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States; Europe
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      • July 2000
      • Case

      Aerospace Technologies, Inc.

      By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
      Ben Galil's privately held engineering consulting firm represents aerospace products manufacturers in Israeli government biddings. The company incurs expenses for years before getting paid. This case deals with the alternative methods for booking revenues and expenses... View Details
      Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Accounting; Revenue; Cost; Business or Company Management; Profit; Engineering; Bids and Bidding; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Consulting Industry; Israel
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      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Competing Ad Auctions

      By: Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee
      We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract users via Cournot-style competition. Meanwhile, each advertiser must pay a participation cost to use each ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash... View Details
      Keywords: Online Advertising; Auctions; Market Participation; Market Platforms; Mathematical Methods; Competition
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      • Video

      Nicolás Jodal

      Nicolás Jodal, Co-Founder and CEO of GeneXus, describes how the gender balance in systems engineering has unexpectedly changed over time in Uruguay, while expressing his commitment to diversity as both a foundational aspect and a deliberate business strategy. View Details
      • 13 Oct 2010
      • News

      Stimulus of $1 Trillion Adds Zero to Deficit

      • 07 Feb 2019
      • HBS Seminar

      Chuck Eesley, Stanford University

      • January–February 2011
      • Article

      Adverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications and Search Results

      By: Benjamin Edelman
      Widely used online "trust" authorities issue certifications without substantial verification of recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than... View Details
      Keywords: Online Advertising; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Safety; Trust; Internet; Search Technology; Web Sites
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      • October 2023 (Revised January 2025)
      • Case

      Sydney Loves Kevin

      By: Ryan W. Buell and Himabindu Lakkaraju
      Kevin Roose was a columnist and podcast host for the New York Times, who focused on technology and its effects on society. When Microsoft launched the latest version of its search engine Bing in February 2023, the company invited Roose to its Redmond campus to... View Details
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      • 15 Nov 2019
      • Blog Post

      Julio Cedeno (MBA 2020) Talks the Case Method and Work-Life Balance

      Julio Cedeno was born in Texas just months after his mother and father (originally from Mexico and Venezuela respectively) arrived in the United States from Venezuela. Julio became an electrical engineer and worked at Chevron in Australia... View Details
      • 25 Sep 2015
      • Blog Post

      4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

      During our first year at HBS, my classmates and I took  the opportunity to build cleverlayover, a flight search engine that uses advanced algorithms to find flights hundreds of dollars cheaper than any other search engine. We were able to... View Details
      • December 2014 (Revised February 2017)
      • Case

      Simplot Plant Sciences: Designing a Better Potato

      By: Jose B. Alvarez and Mary Shelman
      Privately held Simplot has developed a new genetically engineered potato that substantially reduces waste and does not turn brown after cutting. Unlike other GMOs, it does not contain foreign genes. The case describes the company's commercialization plans in light of... View Details
      Keywords: GMO; Sustainability; Agribusiness; Biotechnology; Food And Environment; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Product Positioning; Genetics; Value Creation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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