Mechanisms - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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IT Strategy: Protecting HBS Information and Data Assets | Information Technology

advancing a proactive and innovative security program that meets evolving technology needs. The Solution HBS IT has implemented solutions to minimize the risk of data loss to HBS, including building data redundancies and other mechanisms... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

between 2002 and 2011, and found that just over half undertook Section 363 sales. But of those, a full 21 percent sold the entire company as an ongoing enterprise, instead of simply breaking up the company and liquidating it. That approach indicates that the use of the... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

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

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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

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

accuracy.) The researchers also hired a team of workers through the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), a popular source of data processing assistance. The workers examined the property photos on each listing and rated... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

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

Career Coach

Okan Okutgen

manufacturer. He has also experience of consultancy from Bain & Company. Okan also serves as a mentor to startups as they help try to get seed funding in accelerators. Okan has a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering degree, but has... 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

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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

Data-driven, analytical decision-making is often critical in supply chain management, and thus SCM also builds on aspects of the first-year Data Science and AI for Leaders (RC DSAIL) course. However, whereas RC DSAIL focuses primarily on View Details

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

traditional applications like mechanical patents. Quantifying these technology differences is very important for business managers and public policymakers, but these differences also provide researchers an empirical foothold for... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

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

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Real Estate Investing - Course Catalog

process of sourcing, underwriting, and ultimately acquiring real estate investments. Content and Organization The course is organized into three modules. Deal Making Fundamentals – The first module focuses the mechanics of real estate... View Details

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Career Timeline - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

mechanical engineering from Princeton University 1971 – M.B.A. with high distinction from the Harvard Business School 1973 – Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University 1978 – Teaches first “Industry and Competitive Analysis”... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Faculty Books

reveal the mechanisms of advancement and speculate on what this means for the future of leadership selection and development. Science Business by Gary P. Pisano (HBS Press) Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

23 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

at least 3 decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along 4 basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy, and (4) board governance. We argue that civil society... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2007
First Look

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

29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

their respective sectors and possible solutions,” says Diagne. The discussions with the public and private sectors were instrumental in creating an inclusive mechanism and enabled Diagne to quickly grasp the country’s realities. After... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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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

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