Work Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

acquire a submersible capable of diving these unexplored depths. Vescovo considered purchasing Cameron’s submersible, the Deepsea Challenger, but determined that the experimental vehicle would require too many updates to reliably allow repeated dives. The only other... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

(MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) The story of a French woman perfumer who escapes from Europe at the beginning of World War II and seeks (and finds) success in Los Angeles as a perfumer and fashion designer to the Hollywood elite. Lenses... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

Campus Martius Park. The city’s mile road system originates here; 8 Mile is eight miles away. In the 1990s, when the park was first conceived, it was a signal of a future for the neighborhood; Cummings sat on the board that designed it.... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

create value for shareholders and society alike. That worked in many cases. But some executives who were loaded up with stock options succumbed to the temptation to “game” a financial-markets inefficiency, inefficiencies caused by... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

the twelfth grade,” recalls Eustis. “He was a real tough, volatile type of guy. He played football. He was later rumored to be the smartest kid ever to graduate from our high school.” During those same years, McArthur worked part-time in... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

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