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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science that I love, but I wanted the big-picture perspective and the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
Almost everyone has dialed a simple phone number -- be it to order a pair of socks or reserve a flight to New York -- only to end up navigating through a seemingly endless labyrinth of options, all because a mechanical voice continually... 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
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
environment in which T-shaped managers will flourish. Such guidelines are important because the benefits of T-shaped management won't be realized—will even become liabilities—if the concept is poorly implemented. A key insight: senior executives must put in place View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
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Alex Nelson
big impact and help a lot of people," Alex says. In practical terms, her dreams led Alex to MIT for a degree in mechanical engineering and to General Motors where she served two summers as an engineering intern. "But I wasn't... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
the Bitcoin supply should grow approximately at the real rate of our global economies—perhaps with a built-in boom/bust modulator. However, I understand that its growth is purely mechanical now and could even become deflationary in a few... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
something into mechanisms within that machine that allow the process to become routine and repeatable. Let’s use an example. Many of us have seen glassblowers who manipulate a glowing hot lump of molten glass and shape it into a bottle or... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
outcome, it strongly increases valuation of an ambiguous financial prospect. However, when information supports an unfavorable outcome, it has significantly less impact. We find that two mechanisms drive this asymmetry. First, unfavorable... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
1.9 Course Registration | MBA
financial obligation. Financial aid is available in the form of a student loan, a need-based HBS scholarship, or a combination of both depending on individual circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism... 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
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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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
process customers’ orders. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz first encountered the inefficiencies of traditional order fulfillment in 2000 while working at Webvan, an Internet-based grocery home-delivery service. “The company... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
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
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
borrowers in the London market, we challenge the traditional view that gold-standard adherence worked as a credible commitment mechanism that was rewarded by financial markets with lower borrowing costs. We demonstrate that in the poor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
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
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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
- News
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