Mechanism - Publications - Faculty & Research

Joseph N. Pew

Having begun investing in oil while working in real estate, Pew eventually entered the industry full time, organizing several smaller entities into what became the Sun Oil Company. An innovator himself, Pew developed and patented the first View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Web

Science out into the open - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

corridors with powerhouse sturdiness continuously banked with glass windows look in upon scientifically lighted laboratories in which a multitude of mechanical devices and scientific instruments of today’s knowledge are spaciously... View Details

05 Feb 2016
News

The Wheel of the World

contains close to 20,000 items). “I realized that I was more interested in the ideas expressed in the mechanisms than in owning the physical objects,” he says. “Time is a central element of the human experience, which, understandably,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

forge a marketing deal with Canal Plus, the leading pay television company in France. These examples highlight two critical characteristics of networked incubators. First, networking is institutionalized, meaning that the incubator has View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull

Lothar W. Faber

Faber improved the Eberhard-Faber Company’s product line by adding fountain pens, mechanical pencils, and refill leads. Faber also invented the clamp tip type of pencil with a removable, adjustable eraser. Faber grew the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Web

Alejandro Gracia-Zhang | MBA

Alejandro Gracia-Zhang Mechanical Engineering (SB) Quincy 2020 Cohort 1 I am really excited about being part of this amazing team and I'm looking forward to learning about how entrepreneurship can help us make a greater impact! Tech areas... View Details

18 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

Initiative faculty chair Robin Ely and the latest results from the Life and Leadership After HBS alumni study. The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative provides a mechanism for connecting multiple streams of research happening within the... View Details

Career Coach

Robert Kimmel

ColorMatrix Corporation. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and spent time as a marketing associate for the Scotch Tape division at 3M. Prior to HBS, Robert worked as a Technical Marketing Representative at ABB (Asea Brown Boveri). Robert has a View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing; Private Equity; Financial Services (All)

Web

Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Dennison to mechanize the production of watches, a technique recently applied to firearms. Dennison, an artisan watchmaker underemployed throughout the crisis years, calculated that interchangeable parts could dramatically reduce the high... View Details

14 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

non-conformance and quality control programs that were designed to optimize patient experience. Why did you decide to pursue an MBA given your STEM background? I studied mechanical engineering because I wanted to build upon my analytical,... View Details

Career Coach

Doug Marsan

Doug is excited to help fellow students find their work purpose, especially those looking to fight the climate crisis through climate tech or looking to pivot into VC/startup land. He studied mechanical engineering at Notre Dame (Go... View Details

20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

for bureaucrats. A sample recommendation is that the WHO should “devise a regular, independent, transparent and objective assessment mechanism to evaluate country performance” against precise benchmarks defined in conjunction with member... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

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

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was created with two goals in mind: to... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Web

Eric Li | MBA

Unlike many other mechanisms of change, tech allows us to scale impact in a way previously impossible. I'm excited to find the use cases where tech is an outsized lever achieving better societal outcomes. X: Eric Li Personal Website: Eric... View Details

Web

Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

not show up on financial statements. EF is explicitly designed to be pragmatic and to equip you with the practical tools you need, in addition to providing a broader understanding of how the financing landscape functions. We will spend time understanding not just the... View Details

Profile

Laura Arjona

For Laura Arjona, engineering interests simply "tied into my personality and family background." When Laura was just two years old, her parents fled from Panama and its "strongman," Manuel Noriega, to Texas and then Idaho. Her father earned master's... View Details

Web

2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

include faculty from U.S. and international institutions, HBS faculty, alumni, and practitioners from a range of industries. The symposium will feature panel presentations and interactive sessions exploring the relationship between research and practice and addressing... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good

Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow

As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Publications