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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
participate in two simulations in the required Technology and Operations Management (TOM) course. The “Shad Exercise” provides a sense of the challenges of managing a complex process. In teams of 12,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana in February 2017 to help open... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
be flexible in, a complex and evolving competitive environment. They need decisiveness—the ability to act with appropriate urgency and scale on key business issues. And, most importantly, global leaders need to be extremely good at... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
2,000 conventional ventilators for a population of 210 million people. “When ventilator shortages became an issue in the United States, we knew we had a proven product that could help,” says Gupta. The company moved quickly to establish a manufacturing View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
purchase monthly shares by weight, rather than à la carte, resulting in a fulfillment process that is “relatively complex and pretty unique,” Cummings says. Every order—with 5 to 30 items, selected from 100 products stacked on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
@Soldiers Field
Complex was hoisted into place in November. After its completion in 2020, it will be home to more than 1,800 students, researchers, and faculty from the Harvard John A. Paulson (MBA 1980) School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. VALUE... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
affordable prices, a unique offering in the otherwise crowded wedding industry. But custom design creates ongoing operational challenges. As it grows, should Anomalie leverage its supply-chain advantages to create a line of off-the-rack... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
going to scale back in the U.S. to keep their options open by continuing to operate a plant in America,” he noted. But the damage done by offshoring high-tech manufacturing may be irreversible, he warned. Once factories relocate abroad,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
elected Wilmington mayor and a $16 million gift from a Salesianum alumnus (the third-largest gift to a U.S. Catholic high school) put construction of a new, city-owned sports facility on track for completion in 2020. Kennealey calls the deal a historic moment for the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
With his thorough understanding of the airline industry's complex pricing policies, Brier was the ideal person to explain to carriers how they, as suppliers, would benefit from the new venture. With the airlines on board, more than five... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
into the collective, particular experiences of practitioners. "I was struck by the complexity of the problems and the magnitude of the opportunities," remarked Rebecca Henderson. "There's no reason that business cannot rise to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
relationships it is fostering across faculties, will have a spillover effect on both schools’ curricula and research agendas. The program also will serve as a prelude to yet-to-be-planned activities that await the 2020 opening of the Harvard Science and Engineering... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
approach to order fulfillment is based on the disarming efficiency of small, battery-powered, orange mobile robots. When orders are received, the robots are directed by a complex software application to find and retrieve the desired... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Los Angeles, California 1968 Earns BS, Systems Engineering, US Naval Academy 1985 Earns MS, Operations Research, US Naval Postgraduate School 1987 Receives Stockdale Award... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
magnitude and complexity of the problem. Don Wiviott (MBA 1984) begs to differ. For him, the solution is both simple and doable. The solution Wiviott envisions is to convert typically high-production, conventional, GMO-based farms to... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
to the program’s success, including learning how to think outside the box to solve complex problems, as well as developing strategies for marrying the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. He cites Professor William Sahlman's principles... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
the i-lab have given us the opportunity to do just that,” says Lee, who explains that the amount of capital required to do complex wet lab science is an order of magnitude more than what a typical software venture needs. “The Life Lab... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
HBS Healthcare Alumni Association’s (HBSHAA) first trans-Atlantic Virtual Roundtable, “At Warp Speed: HBS Grads Discuss Leading the UK and US COVID Responses,” on January 7. Nearly 150 HBS alumni joined featured guests Paul Mango (MBA 1988), HHS Deputy Chief of Staff... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
principles of partnership. Tierney: In these businesses, the people you pay are more important than the people who pay you. Your people are your product. This creates a complex and unforgiving business: If a professional service firm’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
530,000-square-foot Allston Science Complex — four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011 — the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard’s 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. Both in the scale and... View Details