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- 01 Sep 2012
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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
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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
- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
business is to make money and maximize shareholder value. She shows that we have failed to reimagine capitalism as not only an engine of prosperity, but also a system in harmony with environmental realities, striving for social justice... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
others better. I visited an engineering school the other day and was most impressed with the students who had completed a field project, who had built something as a team. It was more of a leadership exercise. Any way you can foster that... 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
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
has also written articles for many publications, including Management Science, Public Administration Review, Annals of the History of Computers, and the Harvard Business Review. A 1952 graduate of Purdue University, where he received a BS degree in mechanical View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
Madison did not . Hamilton and Gallatin had helped to lay the intellectual and policy framework for the rise of the United States as a powerful engine of economic innovation. In the administrations they served, they differed from their... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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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
- 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
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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 2006
- News
The Hard Way
college herself. Perhaps that explains why the YPO programs and completion of the OPM Program at HBS have meant so much to her. “Harvard for me was like my dream of driving a Porsche,” she says. “It’s been the engine of my life for the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
commitment to academics would see him earn a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester and eventually HBS. After HBS, Ed would begin a storied investment career, eventually becoming CEO of Ferman Selz. And it was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
enterprise. That is the engine that will keep development moving ahead." A Case for Performance Management In addition to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, HBS associate professor Alnoor Ebrahim has researched and written cases on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
global CO2 emissions. They also remain the hubs and engines for the world’s economic, political, cultural, and social development. Fortunately, because of their legislative power to regulate buildings, density, energy use, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
video, all to improve the at-the-game experience and to keep pace with the coverage enjoyed by fans at home. Engineering Excitement If the NFL has seemed preternaturally blessed by good fortune and smart management, some of its success... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
Coorg, which was established by my parents in the sixties and is now run by my sister. — JA John Doerr (MBA ’76) DOERR With hits that include Intuit, Amazon, and Google, venture capitalist John Doerr is the embodiment of Silicon Valley success. An View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
efficiency engineers — how would we spend our leisure? The problem has bothered social scientists/statesmen, ministers, newspaper editors, and reformers, even though we are not yet even in sight of Utopia. It is supposed, at least by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
search engine Baidu. Instead of striving and sweating for a good job, a home, and a family, it suggested a minimalist lifestyle of tang ping (“lying flat”). Although the post was later deleted by Communist Party officials, lying flat has... View Details