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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
sociologist Talcott Parsons. Chandler was also influenced by his participation in the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at Baker Library. Chandler taught at MIT from 1950 to 1963, where in addition to writing Strategy and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
supportive of me." The importance of mentorship was impressed upon Modigliani at an early age. "I've always been around people who care about ideas. Everyone is a teacher in my family, except for me." That includes her grandfather, Franco Modigliani, a Nobel... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
circles at Harvard," says Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS and director of Harvard's South Asia Institute (SAI). The Godrej Group has relatively strong, lengthy ties to the United States: Adi is a MIT alum, and his... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
process, including Founder's Journey where we actually wrote a case about the early days of starting this company. But raising money, first I mentioned we got some grant funding to get a prototype off the ground. I think when I first raised that grant funding we got... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Hunting Red Balloons
first person or team to locate all ten balloons. Pledging to donate the prize to AIDS research, an HBS team of four students and two professors drew upon the School’s network, including alumni, for the balloon search. Although a group from View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
shipped cost-effectively,” he explains. Mountz moved on to another job, but found himself still pondering the challenge almost two years later in an brainstorming session with some former MIT classmates. “We decided products that could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
MIT grad Brian Hughes (MBA ’79) is bringing technology to bear on what may result in a giant step forward for womankind. Imagine, gushed the Austin, Texas, American-Statesman (July 8, 2004), a high-heeled shoe “so cozy you can wear it all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
Watertown, Massachusetts. The company builds systems derived from innovative electricity-delivery technology developed by an MIT professor (Boston Globe, February 22, 2010). While initial applications — Giler thinks they will be... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Scott P. Mason Remembered
financial regulatory environments, to issues such as the allocation of capital within the financial firm. Born in Presque Isle, Maine, Mason graduated from the University of Maine in 1969. He received an MS in finance at MIT in 1972 and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
the Coop, the focus on books is true to the store's original charter. Founded by a group of thrifty Harvard undergrads who felt Cambridge merchants were charging too much for books and firewood, the Coop has over the years provided the Harvard and View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive on roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the 1960s and is still in use at West Virginia University. That was as far as the idea went, until... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
Reporting Standards (IFRS) when others do not? In this working paper, Assistant Professor Karthik Ramanna and MIT Sloan School of Management’s Ewa Sletten examine variations in the decision to adopt the IFRS standards in over 100 non-EU... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
Entrepreneur Russell Wilcox (AB 1989, MBA 1995) envisions creating clean energy from the world’s stockpiles of nuclear waste at a price cheaper than coal. He is building Transatomic Power, a startup based on innovative MIT technology that... View Details
- 12 Sep 2018
- News
Game-Changing Analytics
intersection of business and sports as co-chair of the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which she co-founded in 2006. “People are coming up with great ideas and launching new companies in this field all the time,” she says.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Henderson Named University Professor
chair established in honor of the former HBS Dean and his wife. With an MBA (1985) and a PhD in business economics (1988) from Harvard, Henderson came to the School from MIT in 2009. She cochairs HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Grad’s “Claw” Goes to Market
It’s estimated that more than 50 percent of HBS alumni start their own company within ten years of graduation. David Moeller (MBA ’08) got a head start on that stat when he and partner Craig Forest of MIT invented “the Claw,” a bike... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
cared about how to make it happen," Wilcox says. "I adopted the dream and it became my dream too." Wilcox first saw Joe Jacobson and Jerry Rubin's electronic ink dream in 1997. He discovered the two MIT Media Lab professors through the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
at the company’s core. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000 medical providers. The publicly traded company has won numerous honors, including Fast Company’s World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care; MIT... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership
journals and in elected positions at the Academy of Management. Before joining the HBS faculty in 1998, Tushman taught most recently at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, where he was honored for excellence and innovation in the classroom, and as a... View Details