Mechanism - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

efficiency, because some schools are strategic players that rank students in order of preference, while others order students based on large priority classes. Therefore it is desirable for a mechanism to produce stable matchings (to avoid... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

Daniel Willard

began to pay off for the B&O in the 1920s, and he continued that trend of high quality, introducing, among other things, the first mechanical air-conditioned equipment. During Willard’s later years with the company when the Depression... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Jun 2007
News

James McKenney Remembered

Born and raised in Chicago, McKenney graduated from Purdue University in 1952 with a BS degree in mechanical engineering before receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, McKenney was the first information systems expert... View Details

Keywords: Information

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Mechanical Engineering and Economics, Vanderbilt University Bruce is currently a Senior Advisor to Summit Partners and is a former Managing Partner of the firm. During his 38-year venture capital career, he has served as a member of the... View Details

13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux Abstract—In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

of a study cited in the column that associated companies utilizing mechanisms for paying attention to "emerging customers" with the fostering of "disruptive technologies" raised some eyebrows. As Christophe Meili put... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Student-Profile

Ryann Noe

Economics looks at the architecture and mechanics of systems, and English provides the stories of the people who populate those systems. Similarly, my PhD program sits at the crossroads of management and sociology.” Ryann says that she... 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

Student-Profile

Erica Moszkowski

An interdisciplinary approach to economics has always appealed to Erica Moszkowski (she/her). After taking a computer science course that examined mechanism design and computational elegance, she began to apply ideas gleaned from her... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Better Care at Lower Cost

As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care. “Disruption has been one of the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

23 Sep 2010
News

How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?

telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa represented a unique mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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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

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

01 Jun 2011
News

New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste

brought to the competition,” said HBS professor Lynda Applegate, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “We are pleased that the contest not only is helping to identify promising new business ventures among our alumni but also is acting as a formal View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

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

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

works, whose prices will likely be lower without the floor-setting mechanisms and associated costs of intermediaries. Khaire explained that in the western world, there is a clear understanding of what is considered "good art" (a... View Details

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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

in the justice system and the industrialization of misinformation and hacking of elections. How can business leaders create great companies that enhance the value to society while earning a return for shareholders? Blockchain – Changing View Details

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

static as they might appear. What mechanisms of access are really at work, and what does this evolving portrait of access mean for the future of leadership? Paths to Power is the second book (In Their Time was the first) to come from the... View Details