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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
“Iron Man suit.” The idea seemed absurd—but not because of the comic-book connotations. Tseng, with a background in mechanical engineering and on-the-ground experience in actual conflict zones such as Afghanistan, where the so-called Iron... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
mechanical engineer. With no design background, she has integrated her love of design, engineering, travel, and sustainability all into MAYU. We’re really excited to see where this venture goes!” Karan with his wife, Mayura Karan with his... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Rio de Janeiro 1969 Earns BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering 1974 Earns PhD, Economics, University of Chicago 1974 Named... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
shifting sense of priorities. Born in India, he went to boarding school in England and earned a degree in mechanical engineering at Manchester University. After graduating from HBS with distinction, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
New Jersey, Porter earned all-state honors in football and baseball. He also taught himself golf well enough to eventually win a place on the 1968 NCAA All-American golf team while an undergraduate at Princeton, where he also earned academic honors in aerospace and... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
satisfaction. In the mid-1950s their studies culminated with the publication of The Foreman and the Assembly Line and Turner's influential Harvard Business Review article, "Management and the Assembly Line." Both these works demonstrated how assembly-line technology,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
bookselling industry, is growing. The American Booksellers Association counted 2,321 physical independent bookstores in the United States in 2017—40 percent more than there were in 2009. Raffaelli, who has also researched what he calls “technology reemergence” in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
captured by this data. For Heese, whose work focuses on the governance mechanisms that are most effective in reducing misconduct, this study raises larger questions: Once a community loses its paper, is there another way to keep a check... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
affair was an expression of rebellion, his doctor says, “I tell you, Carl, nobody will ever be able to measure all the human misery that is the indirect result of the inescapable boredom and sense of purposelessness that derives from a civilization so View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
contains close to 20,000 items). “I realized that I was more interested in the ideas expressed in the mechanisms than in owning the physical objects,” he says. “Time is a central element of the human experience, which, understandably,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was created with two goals in mind: to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
reveal the mechanisms of advancement and speculate on what this means for the future of leadership selection and development. Science Business by Gary P. Pisano (HBS Press) Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
Born and raised in Chicago, McKenney graduated from Purdue University in 1952 with a BS degree in mechanical engineering before receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, McKenney was the first information systems expert... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care. “Disruption has been one of the... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa represented a unique mechanism... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
brought to the competition,” said HBS professor Lynda Applegate, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “We are pleased that the contest not only is helping to identify promising new business ventures among our alumni but also is acting as a formal View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“There’s a tendency to think, How hard could it be to run an arts organization? The answer is, every bit as hard; we just don’t have as many zeroes at the end of our budget. The practical mechanics of performing 200 concerts and reaching... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
the Bitcoin supply should grow approximately at the real rate of our global economies—perhaps with a built-in boom/bust modulator. However, I understand that its growth is purely mechanical now and could even become deflationary in a few... View Details
Keywords: feedback