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- 01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out
to spend time indoors. The other is prison.) ... Here’s a weird but helpful way to think about all of this indoor time, courtesy of Rich Corsi, dean of engineering and computer science at Portland State University, an outstanding building... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
already compiled a Texas-sized résumé. But he’d rather talk about his HBS classmates than himself. Declares Staats, “Every day, I’m amazed by the phenomenal people and interactions to be found here.” Staats, who is a 1997 Ph.D. graduate in electrical View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
idea is that there are some problems that require collective input and cumulative knowledge-building. Open-source communities are a very powerful way to get that done. We used to think that software had to be developed by lots of View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
would put them on and start shouting expletives because the sound quality was so incredible. Our engineers and designers strive for that reaction. What’s one of your latest audio technologies? We just launched headphones with Supreme... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Shaky Ground Senior Lecturer John Macomber Because of a housing shortage in Williston, oil worker Glenn Robinson, from Missouri, sleeps in his car, staying warm by idling the engine and using a fan heater connected to the car battery.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
have the market we desire.” Days 6–9: Monterrey TOM, REAL TIME: Students quiz executives at Nemak, a leading manufacturer of aluminum auto engine heads and blocks. Nemak is one of four business groups that make up ALFA, a $10 billion... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager
environmental engineering and his graduate degree in advanced polymer chemistry, but he wants to go into general management, a direction an HBS class in authentic leadership development solidified: “It helps you discover your true north,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Harvard’s MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, and founder of HBS’s Startup Bootcamp. Kerr is unit head of Entrepreneurial Management and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures Program in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
healthcare leaders,” she says. “The goal is to give our alumni the ability to network with and grow professionally with alumni, professors and students from other schools including the Harvard Medical School, the T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the Paulson School... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
consumer deleveraging. This, in turn, has created defaults among financial institutions.” In this context, Kaplan maintains that the financial rescue plan was necessary but not sufficient by itself. “There has to be a second step, and it is critical. We need to rebuild... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
opposing, ideas. In the mid-2000s, Google was outstripping its storage capacity as it began adding applications like Gmail and YouTube to its portfolio. Engineering SVP Bill Coughran encouraged innovation to redesign the storage system,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
inadequate and costly telecommunications, income and education disparities, and corruption. Add to that a history of political and economic volatility and one begins to understand that entrepreneurship is as much a required tool of survival in Latin America as an View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
entrepreneurial. And they are less hierarchical, with flatter management structures. Service and knowledge industries have overtaken traditional manufacturing businesses as the engines of growth in the West, while China and other... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
which focuses on financial innovation and the use of financial engineering techniques by corporations, may fit this general description, for some time now Tufano has also been involved in a very different project aimed at "trying to teach... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
interests weren’t swamped.” In 1999, the plant’s first shipment of LNG left for Boston. Cabot recently sold all its LNG-related business for a handsome sum. Shearer has moved on to new challenges at Poten & Partners, a New York ship-brokerage and consulting firm where,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
– our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered unbelievable cost improvements. If you take the cost competitiveness of renewables, the increasing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial banking followed, as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Road Bill Gates may have been selected as the most influential business leader, but the internal combustion engine beats Windows as an operating system by a mile - the automobile rules as the most significant consumer product of the last... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
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The Working Parent Revolution
business. It’s produced by the External Relations Department at HBS. Our audio engineer is Craig McDonald. It is available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And if you could take a moment to rate and review... View Details