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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects
Square Task Force, and in-class libraries for early readers at the Winship Elementary School in Brighton. The Harbus Foundation was formed in 1997, using surplus funds generated from the HBS student newspaper, the Harbus, as a mechanism... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
and create a mechanism for dismantling failing financial institutions. In short, the administration is staking future financial stability on a much larger regulatory role for government, an approach advocated by Moss. “Government is a... 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
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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
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
weren't connected before 9-11; there was no mechanism to do so." Creating change in the government sector, however, requires grappling with a deeply entrenched culture. "Democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all... View Details
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Rob Humble
Rob Humble's degree in mechanical engineering gave him entrée to Raytheon's Operations Leadership Development Program. In the course of two years and three rotations, Rob managed a 45-person team that manufactured aircraft, directed a... View Details
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Olujimi Williams
science with a growing interest in business through a joint degree that combined mechanical engineering with business and finance. “To really understand how business works,” Olujimi explains, “I wouldn’t get that in an exclusively... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Parks Management is People Management
opportunities versus, say, a user-friendly software service) the mechanism to achieve it is quite similar. Particularly, the effectiveness of managers in setting a vision, establishing norms for communication and teamwork, and aligning... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
mechanism for helping local communities and an educational experience for the HBS students who will run it and manage its funds. This year, the Harbus Foundation announced nine grants totaling $73,000 in the areas of journalism, literacy,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
organizational settings. (One such useful psychoanalytic concept is "splitting," a defense mechanism against anxiety in which the individual ascribes positive attributes to one entity—usually one's own group—while imbuing another group... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
develop a support mechanism whereby alumni could receive training through volunteer IT specialists. Highlights of its recommendations included a broader marketing effort to all alumni, publicizing the benefits of the online services... 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
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
serious attention to how they might be more accountable to the communities they seek to serve. Juggling the many expectations of accountability—for finances, governance, performance, and mission—requires integration and alignment throughout the organization. Numerous... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
countries through both formal business relationships and informal contacts. Formal mechanisms run the spectrum from direct financial investment in overseas businesses that pursue technology opportunities to facilitating contracts and... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
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Pranav Kothari
interests. "I was amazed by the infrastructure, how smoothly things functioned here." Impressed both by mechanics and America, Pranav pursued an engineering degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, his curiosity... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
heavy backpack on these behaviors. Our studies also examined the mechanism behind these effects and demonstrated that participants processed guilty stimuli more fluently when experiencing physical weight. Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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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
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Fellows | MBA
Science, Secondary in Economics Leverett 2023 Cohort 4 Alejandro Gracia-Zhang Mechanical Engineering (SB) Quincy 2020 Cohort 1 Mohammed Guerrab Computer Science Kirkland 2023 Cohort 5 Karly Hou Computer Science/Mathematics Eliot 2024... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
Regular Checkup if you want to be sure your mechanical system is operating in a way that protects your health, the single best recommendation we can give you is to commission your mechanical system. Our... View Details