Product Engineering - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
News

Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

marketing specialist with an engineering background, DiCamillo immediately set about restructuring Polaroid, filling key positions with new people, "refreshing the brand," as he puts it, and instituting cost-cutting measures to stem a... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Aug 2013
News

A Cure for Cold Storage

Tufts biomedical engineering professor who had discovered a way to employ silk to create stable vaccine storage. Schrader, with a mechanical engineering background and experience in View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; vaccines; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

13 May 2021
Blog Post

HBS Got Talent

Tom Chen (MBA 2021) and Student Association representatives Abby Burcham (MBA 2021) and Matthew Shackelford (MBA 2021), we picked a date (March 31st) and hired our production partner. In selecting a charity, we were drawn to a new... View Details

November 1994 (Revised November 1994)
Case

MW Petroleum Corporation (A)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Peter Tufano and Barbara Wall

Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. The proposed acquisition is a large one for... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Subsidiaries; Mining; Cash Flow; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Price; Negotiation; Production; Valuation; Mining Industry

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Purchase

22 Aug 2024
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details

Web

Israel - Global Activities 2021

Government, and the International Economy Unit John D. Black Professor of Business Administration The case presents Netafim’s new CEO, Gaby Miodownik, in 2019 as he considers expanding the firm from a supplier of precision drip irrigation View Details

11 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers

Finnish-American artist and an engineer father, a Midwesterner, and an accomplished engineer in her own right. This personalization alone could help get others past their simplistic thinking about her. And... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Publishing; Web Services

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

important next step for us is finding strong product market fit – among all the different capabilities we can engineer within our microalgae, which ones are most important? And to whom is it important? If... View Details

01 Mar 2022
News

2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced

Harvard Business School has announced the recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award: Patricia C. “Tosh” Barron (MBA 1972) Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Bridging the Gap

yet, the crisis has shed light on areas where business leaders can make an important difference, such as supporting schools and programs that enable students to gain skills and talents for productive employment and create a foundation for... View Details

29 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Bloom Energy

Harvard Business School and what roles do you hire for? We are thrilled to have kicked off our relationship with Harvard Business School through the recruitment of 2 summer interns this year on our Marketing and Production Control teams.... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Dec 2006
News

2006 MBAs Go to Work

Countries 70 Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 35% Engineering 28% Business 24% Natural Sciences 8% Unspecified Major 5% Class of 2006 Median base salary $105,000 Median total compensation $138,125 Leading Job Locations... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Dec 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)

wanted to avoid. Where are you currently working? Can you describe your role? I am currently working as a Product Manager at Grammarly, the company behind the AI-powered writing assistant. I’ve been at the company for almost a year and... View Details

06 Apr 2016
What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

the jobs most central to product security. According to one report, “The leader of the Core OS Security Engineering team, Dallas DeAtley, left the security division last year to work in a different part of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

Profile

Pasha Nahass

Pasha Nahass entered Stanford with an interest in political science and an eye toward government service. But in his freshman year, he took a computer science course “just to get the applied engineering requirement out of the way.” To his... View Details

Keywords: Tech

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity, joy, trust, and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

intelligent choice so important to effectively functioning markets. Worse yet, the financial products were created by financial engineers motivated to make them complex and therefore harder to understand.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2000
News

Vivek Ranadivé

grandmother was the first female judge in India and that his father, who now lives in California, is involved in charitable projects in India and the United States. In four years, Ranadivé completed a bachelor's degree in electrical View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

16 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future

What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked at Tesla as a design engineer and project manager. I had the opportunity to work on groundbreaking products alongside some of the smartest and most resilient people in the world.... View Details

25 Apr 2016
News

Trail Blazer

Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation; Transportation

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