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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“There’s a tendency to think, How hard could it be to run an arts organization? The answer is, every bit as hard; we just don’t have as many zeroes at the end of our budget. The practical mechanics of performing 200 concerts and reaching... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
the Bitcoin supply should grow approximately at the real rate of our global economies—perhaps with a built-in boom/bust modulator. However, I understand that its growth is purely mechanical now and could even become deflationary in a few... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
process customers’ orders. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz first encountered the inefficiencies of traditional order fulfillment in 2000 while working at Webvan, an Internet-based grocery home-delivery service. “The company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Pyramid Scheme
(MBA ’03) told the Boston Globe (September 22, 2004). DuPlessie, who studied mechanical engineering at MIT, launched TOMB after gaining experience working on projects at Disney and Universal Studios. Boston-based TOMB, the first project... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
a French aeronautic plant and shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers’ identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain control. On Competition, Updated and Expanded... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
If you had asked Calvin Young (MBA 2015) what he’d be doing after his graduation from HBS, he wouldn’t have answered “politics.” But earlier this month, the mechanical engineer and newly minted MBA announced his candidacy for mayor of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
distribution center that is quick and low-cost to set up, inexpensive to operate, and easy to change anywhere in the world. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz encountered inefficiencies in order fulfillment while working at an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
where he instituted the Student Association/MBA Awards to complement the annual Dean's Award for exceptional leadership and service. "HBS students are just fantastic people," remarks Bolick. "I felt that it was important to have a View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
track its effectiveness and set benchmarks for improvement. "Nonprofits are so important in our society," she said. "They fulfill essential purposes. But they lack the market mechanisms of corporations where, if a board falls asleep at... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
was a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He also held an MA in industrial engineering from Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. in decision sciences from the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science that I love, but I wanted the big-picture perspective and the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
Almost everyone has dialed a simple phone number -- be it to order a pair of socks or reserve a flight to New York -- only to end up navigating through a seemingly endless labyrinth of options, all because a mechanical voice continually... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
years, that’s an enormous technological transition. So the questions of how firms can organize themselves to do it, and what kinds of governance mechanisms will support and encourage them to do that, seem to me a natural extension of what... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Power of Entrepreneurship
everything. When you go to the slums of Mexico, they don't have that privilege. And it's a complete market failure. So it is two parts: It's access to better products and services in the emerging middle class and entrepreneurship as a View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
includes everything from welding machines to surveillance systems. “This know-how of making complicated mechanical things operate smoothly is still alive in Japan and it’s in Panasonic’s DNA,” Higuchi told Bloomberg. READ MORE View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects
Square Task Force, and in-class libraries for early readers at the Winship Elementary School in Brighton. The Harbus Foundation was formed in 1997, using surplus funds generated from the HBS student newspaper, the Harbus, as a mechanism... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
and create a mechanism for dismantling failing financial institutions. In short, the administration is staking future financial stability on a much larger regulatory role for government, an approach advocated by Moss. “Government is a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
sciences and bioengineering. "In the next generation, we will know the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease," Yeo declares. "Biomedical science will control and eradicate cancer and AIDS, and individualized medicine will be the... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
his musket factory. And I also look at Oliver Ames who was making shovels just down the road from the Business School in Easton, Massachusetts, mechanizing that process. Now we start to get things like the telegraph and the railroad and... View Details