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11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

science and engineering and applied science but in social science as well. Sometimes it ranks education to the degree that it can on... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

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Research Resources | Baker Library

1947-2014 Collection of papers, ephemera, newspaper clippings, printed publications, and an autobiography by Alfred Bellows, a former Polaroid Corporation engineer involved in the development of the SX-70 color camera in the 1960s and... View Details

February 2009
Teaching Note

AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

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Keywords: Growth and Development; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Investment; Industry Clusters; Groups and Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Competency and Skills; Engineering; Science; Geographic Location; Semiconductor Industry; Germany; Europe; United States

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10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

Barron (MBA 1972) Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products Division, Xerox Corporation Dance, dance revolution: “I studied modern dance in college; the originality of the choreography attracted me, but it... View Details

04 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Finding Your Creative Outlet on Campus

but my reasons are now much more like Val’s. As an eight-semester Harvard student, listening to the community’s stories sustains me.” For co-host Jade Enns, who has a computer science degree and a love for entertainment and media, audio... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

the first two i-lab alumni unicorns, WHOOP and CarePort Health. The opportunities continue to expand, especially with the landmark Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) building now... View Details

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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

Corporate EcoForum Weekly Bloomberg Climate Changed Just Means Triple Pundit University-based resources Duke Edge Duke Office of sustainability Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Harvard C-Change: The... View Details

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding Personal Information Reveals the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

Visit Dean Nohria's page Watch Dean Nohria at Fall Reunion (LEFA login required) Fresh out of a highly competitive engineering school in Mumbai, 22-year-old Nitin Nohria aspired to pursue his interest in business, earn an MBA in America,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

with a supporting appendix that describes 19 additional immigrants or immigrant families and their firms. Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2017
News

Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity

achieved through both the private and public sectors,” says Kyarisiima. “Enabling African businesses to access global markets and think strategically is where I want to play a role.” The path she took to pursue this goal has been circuitous. While studying civil View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Oct 1999
News

Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

the single most important factor in the rapid proliferation of personal computers. Bricklin, who took a shine to computer programming while still in high school in the 1960s, earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

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Transforming Health Care Delivery

search engine optimized for locating scholarly and academic material licensed by Harvard covering all disciplines. The FIND IT @ Harvard button will automatically appear with search results. View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

Twice a day, this saltwater tidal estuary—river is a misnomer—reverses its direction with the regularity of a Swiss watch, sloshing back and forth between New York Bay and Long Island Sound. This precision allows Verdant’s engineers to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

example, in a February 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of 2,253 adult respondents answered they would not be OK with a search engine (such as Google) keeping track of their searches and using the results to personalize... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

Engineering Task Force (IETF), which defines the protocols of the Internet, is a nonprofit professional society. What is different from professional nonprofits or nonprofits focused on charitable causes is that open source foundations... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Jun 2018
News

Alumni Achievement Awards

expenses between his personal and business accounts. When I pay a bill today, I hear my father’s voice in my head, and it’s always a clear reminder of what is the right thing to do. I’m sure that graduates of Harvard’s School of View Details

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

Authors:Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman Periodical:Social Science & Medicine (forthcoming) Abstract Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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