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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
lost not only its ability to develop and manufacture high-tech products like televisions, memory chips, and laptops, but also the expertise to produce emerging “hot products” such as the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels, and the batteries that will power... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
world. “The list of competitors poised for attack was more than a little daunting: Texas Instruments, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Phillips, Siemens, Nippon Electric Corporation (NEC), Hitachi, and Fujitsu, among others — the Billion... View Details
Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
ethanol, solar, and clean-burning coal technology as particularly promising areas. Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82): The CEO of General Electric sees opportunity in clean and sustainable industrial products and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Illustration by James Steinberg Illustration by James Steinberg Picture today’s conscious consumer pulling on a fresh organic cotton tee shirt, then driving their hybrid or electric vehicle to the grocery store to pack reusable shopping... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
Immelt Photo courtesy General Electric Just a year after taking the helm of General Electric, Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82) addressed a capacity crowd in Burden... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
community has failed,” she said. “If we want to solve climate change, we can. It's completely plausible to change. We have the technology to fix this problem. Electric and autonomous vehicles and ride sharing are coming fast. Agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
earlier this year, Barack Obama appointed General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’79) to head the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Historically, HBS and its alumni have played a key role in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Long before HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani used crowdsourcing to develop pioneering research on the science of innovation, his experiences working at General Electric and the Boston Consulting Group piqued... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
Business Review, how the United States has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. These include the batteries that power electric and hybrid cars, light-emitting... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
the single most important factor in the rapid proliferation of personal computers. Bricklin, who took a shine to computer programming while still in high school in the 1960s, earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil some decades ago, I saw how the arrival of electricity — and a television mounted in the public square — changed life in my rural village. The outside world became visible. Other peoples and places were... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
General Electric 1997 Named President and CEO, GE Aircraft Engines 2000 Named Chairman and CEO, 3M 2005 Named Chairman, President, and CEO, Boeing 2015 Named CEO of the Year by Chief Executive magazine 2016... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
often visiting company parking lots; businesses have been one of Yoshi’s best customers, paying the service’s monthly subscription fee as a job perk for their employees. Yoshi’s eliminate-the-gas-station model has also attracted the attention of ExxonMobil and View Details
- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
Jeanette Eaton (PMD 72, 1997) is helping a new generation of women take flight. A helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft pilot, Eaton has become an advocate to youth, especially girls, who are considering careers in aviation. "I see a lot of... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
area for business school. Howard’s HBS experience expanded his already broad sights. “I left feeling emboldened and empowered,” he says. His plans to join the corporate world were initially sidelined by a call to serve in Afghanistan, but later he worked at View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
made for me: This person had to have studied either computer science or electrical engineering and have a JD and an MBA. They had to have worked at a big software company and a successful startup. The kicker was they had to speak... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan Thomas J. Watson The runner-up to Gates was View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
measures, such as acquiring one’s own generators to circumvent bribe-seeking electricity authorities, may not be enough, as Ikea recently found out in Russia. (The company has admitted kickbacks were paid to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
and analytics than liberal arts when you don’t speak the language,” observes Ma. Her hard work and focus paid off: She was accepted at MIT and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. “I believe in what the School is trying to... View Details