Engineering - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

economy and natural resources are all core themes of their stewardship activities. Andrea's role prior to HBS was a Consultant at the United Nations and McKinsey & Company. Brandon Corts (MS/MBA Engineering 2023, Section I), Summer... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

carry the weight of many burdens. Adding to their need to be skilled individual contributors, maintaining sophisticated technical expertise, they may also need to be skilled leaders who can manage a project and environment in which team learning can occur.... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

of what is possible. Engineers can reconfigure their systems to wring the best performance possible out of the available technology. Think about the computer industry. In its early days, you simply couldn't exist as a specialist provider.... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

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Lincoln Electric Co.

By: Norman A. Berg

Covers the strategy and management practices of the world's largest manufacturer of welding equipment. Discusses the compensation system and company culture, and the leadership style of management. View Details

Keywords: Construction; Compensation and Benefits; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical device engineer working on products for Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Units. I came to school passionate about access... View Details

17 Mar 2021
Blog Post

The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS

vision that I am now pursuing. I wove a narrative of an audacious moonshot dream, of literally going to mine the moon--combining my professional and academic experiences as a mining engineer and my personal interest as a space enthusiast.... View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

the rise (and fall?) of progressive taxation to the revisionary engineering of the New Deal. They consider how deeply finance has penetrated into daily life, including the ideological and political forces that made citizens into investors... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

22 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Prior to HBS, I worked as a process engineer for Procter & Gamble and then in engineering and business roles at an early-stage manufacturing data analytics company. I... View Details

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

Frances Frei: I studied math in college, engineering for my masters, and operations and information management for my PhD, which just means I got more and more applied as things went on. And then I got to Harvard and was in the Technology... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

the year, with "no dirt flying." In response, Theodore Roosevelt sacked the first commission. The replacement commissioners selected a civilian railroad engineer from Maine, John Stevens, to go to Panama to supervise the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

25 Aug 2022
News

Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

design and software engineering capabilities to enable faculty research, and administrative services to launch and run labs efficiently and to coordinate relationships with external partners. REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS Harnessing... View Details

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Bobby Tuohy

his choices. “I stumbled upon the joint degree program when I was at a crossroads,” he says about his discovery of the joint HBS/SEAS business and engineering program. “It appealed to me because it would allow me to deepen my tech skills... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Ann Dewitt (MBA 2009), The Engine Unpacking the Supply Chain Mess with Some First Principles and Common Sense Willy C. Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business... View Details

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

The joint degree program with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) proved to be the right choice for Janina. “It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or launching startups and launching... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

sweet. 310 pages. You can read it in a weekend. Skydeck is the Harvard Business School alumni podcast, featuring interviews and insights from across the world of business. It’s produced by the External Relations Department at HBS. Our audio View Details

01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

Island. No lawyers or investment bankers," Wendel smiles. By leveraging its strengths in engineering and marketing, cutting costs to the bone, and using its improved cash flow to streamline manufacturing and develop new and diversified... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

21 Sep 2023
HBS Seminar

Pinar Ozcan, Saïd Business School

Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality

The public release of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked tremendous interest in how humans will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accomplish a variety of tasks. In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, we examine... View Details

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