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

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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
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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

31 Dec 2012
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Heskett's readers. What do YOU think? 8. The Business of Life Published: June 4, 2012 Scholarly economic theory applies to more than just business. The same causal mechanisms that drive big corporations to success can be just as effective... View Details

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Rob Self

A cursory glance at Rob Self’s resumé seems to suggest a contradiction: with an advanced degree in mechanical engineering and a lengthy job history in manufacturing and automotive, his founding of a startup to serve Midwestern farmers... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance

Harvard to work at a Hartford insurance company. As Desai explains, “[I]nsurance tries to make sense of the chaos of the human experience by capitalizing on patterns, and then creating pooling mechanisms for us to be able to manage that... View Details

27 Apr 2017
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Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

lieutenant on the sub who managed teams of mechanical systems experts—men usually more experienced than she. “I tried to go in with a sense of humility but also with a level of confidence,” she explains. Strobel later served as an Office... View Details

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Rachel Honeth

program. "I loved it," she says. "It was two weeks with training wheels but without grades. By the time classes began, I already felt like an old pro. I didn't fear being cold-called in class. Case study is a forcing View Details

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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

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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

01 Jun 2007
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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

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

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

to explore the mechanism behind the rise in income inequality. We find tax cuts lead to higher reported capital income and a decrease in wage and salary income. These effects are concentrated among top earners, and we find no effects for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

view, the fact remains that an effective conversation about sustainability requires the participation of both sides of the market. There are two main mechanisms for companies to communicate to the market as a way of starting this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Zihan Lin

the hands-on, boy-stuff of the mechanical with the mission of medicine." By the time Zi entered the graduate stage of his education, he had a firm focus "on two concentrations: design methodology and medical devices." In... View Details

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Clarissa Quintanilla

trying out different communication and leadership styles, all learning how to become more effective.” Market-based approaches In her first joint-degree internship, Clarissa worked on two projects under the Boston Urban Mechanics Program... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing

sciences and bioengineering. "In the next generation, we will know the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease," Yeo declares. "Biomedical science will control and eradicate cancer and AIDS, and individualized medicine will be the... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Oct 2001
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Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success

company. "It made sense to get a different perspective," he says. "I studied agribusiness under Ray Goldberg, and he helped me see things as systems, rather than looking at them mechanically from one point of view." Getting a sense of the... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

his musket factory. And I also look at Oliver Ames who was making shovels just down the road from the Business School in Easton, Massachusetts, mechanizing that process. Now we start to get things like the telegraph and the railroad and... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

And mechanisms exist to handle such contingencies both efficiently and effectively. Depending on the facts and circumstances, for instance, a job change could lead to a decision not to renominate an incumbent director. In a case of... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

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