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- 01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind projects. “Most of these... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Taking That Hill
Niekamp “Honestly I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about being a woman in a male industry,” Cynthia Niekamp (MBA 1983) told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 27, 2011). “It’s just my life; it’s been my life.” Niekamp, who as a student worked during summer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books
teams, share knowledge, and combat isolation; leverage AI and automation to extend WFA into manufacturing and other deskless roles and, design programs that attract talent to different regions. Filled with actionable insights and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
electric car: “It took off like a rocket and stopped on a dime,” says Draper. That eventually led DFJ to Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors, then SpaceX, the rocket manufacturer founded by Musk in 2002 with the modest goal of “enabling people to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
between the manufacturing analysis we learned and making a movie,” he says. “With a movie, you take a dream — like somebody’s script — and break it into tiny pieces, or individual shots. A film typically contains hundreds of shots, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
high-volume production of certain commodity items in the private sector. In part that’s because manufacturing those products doesn’t represent a very attractive profit-making opportunity under normal circumstances. In a crisis, however,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
home life. "Most of the time I end up sacrificing a fair bit on the family side," admits Weber, who in August resigned as president of Vickers Inc., a manufacturer of hydraulic pumps and motors in Toledo, Ohio, and moved his family to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
comes to mind as I sit in on a value stream analysis meeting of Emory’s clinical trial process with Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant. A lean manufacturing technique that originated with Toyota, this particular exercise has produced a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
manufacture LSD. You can’t get traction. Just don’t go there. (HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections) (HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections) Sahlman was daunted, but he... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Professor of Business Administration and cochair, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship One such example is CellScope, which manufactures a device that fits easily over a smartphone's camera so a parent or school nurse can take a photo... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
dismantling systemic racism and all of its various and insidious forms, within institutions in Boston and across the other 350 cities and towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.” JULY 10 After the murder of George Floyd, Victor Swint (MBA 1992), CEO of precision... View Details