Engineering - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2005
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Facing Ambiguity

research associates Erika Ferlins and Laura Feldman, students are assigned the parts of six managers or engineers who were involved in the Columbia mission. After logging into their password-protected role, students watch, read, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

academic ventures. Debuting this spring, the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP) was designed and will be taught by faculty from HBS, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard’s Faculty of... View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

and Budget, 1977-80, 1985-87 Northern Air Freight and Danzas Corporation, 1987-90 Why HBS? "I took a year off from college to work at Boeing. There were rows of engineers sitting at desks. After about six months, I decided I'd rather... View Details

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

he cofounded Giant Otter, a startup that developed anti-bullying software designed to make both a social impact and a profit. The company’s foreign-born coders, however, lacked the cultural competency to develop the conversational artificial intelligence View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

two more rounds of equity financing of $2.5 million each in 2005 and 2006. In August 2007, Linear took delivery of its first VLJ, an Eclipse 500 purchased on the secondary market. The brainchild of high-tech engineer and venture... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

24 Oct 2016
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Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS

partnerships now that Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be located adjacent to HBS.” McCance is well versed in investing in good ideas and is particularly interested in how business... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2011
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Where the Jobs Are

developing nations as an engine for job creation back home (see article). Innovation is also the ticket to survival for smaller manufacturers, reports Senior Associate Editor Garry Emmons, who talked with the proprietors of family-owned... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?

slot in the slate? Maybe. It comes back to the curation aspect of this business. It’s very different from the search engine method of figuring out what’s worth watching. MB: Any advice for students or alumni considering a career in the... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

Under his ten-and-one-half years of leadership, the School launched FIELD and HBS Online. It created two joint degree programs: an MS/MBA in Engineering in conjunction with the Paulson School of Engineering... View Details

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2018
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Collaborative Cures

Business Administration “When I looked at the health care system through a systems engineering lens, I could see it as a network of multiple parts that needed to be optimized and restraints that had to be removed. Everyone wants the best... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Deals For Sale

He launched FairMarket from his Beacon Hill apartment in 1997. "When we set up our server, I had an engineer in my kitchen doing the programming, and we had a network cable running all over the floor. It was a total bootstrap operation,"... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

that passion created a natural transition to the nonprofit world in 2012. “I went into business to understand the engine of the economy, but I suppose I always knew that at some point I wanted to get back to nature,” says Thoren, who has... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2004
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Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)

hand, some technologies have come and gone: Witness the VHS tape, which killed the Beta format, only to succumb to the DVD. And I would never have guessed that managing in a regulated environment and process engineering would be so... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

he calls “the cross-country test.” To wit: “Are you really going to want to wait eight hours to recharge your vehicle?” says Camargo, who positioned the first Cadillac hybrid for the American market in 2013 before joining Cox. “Probably not.” Over the past several... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Oct 2001
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David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High

him to be his best, Price was captain of his high-school swim team, president of his fraternity at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a drill instructor in the Army. "I was always very goal-oriented and wanted to lead," he recalls. Then, in the early 1970s, while... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

25 May 2011
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Race to the Finish?

batteries can be quickly inserted. He further notes that emissions created by charging an electric car’s batteries are less than the emissions produced by powering an internal combustion engine to cover the same amount of miles. With tens... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance

in fall 1994. Coming from an engineering background, he found the School's approach of building broad general management and leadership skills a bit foreign at first but has come to rely on those practices over the years. "I specialize in... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers

essential connections between, for instance, groups that focus on research, those that focus on programming, and those that focus on policy. “What we want to do is apply business principles: How can we bring a curation engine that’s... View Details