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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Additionally, U.S. Steel drew upon the work of photographers serving in the company’s engineering corps, who were intimately familiar with the inner workings of the corporation. It also employed the services of local studios operating... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

dealmaker but something of a kingmaker as well. "When I graduated from college with an engineering degree, I knew nothing about politics and less about investment banking," the tall, trim Brody recalls with a chuckle. "My best friend, an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense

“Iron Man suit.” The idea seemed absurd—but not because of the comic-book connotations. Tseng, with a background in mechanical engineering and on-the-ground experience in actual conflict zones such as Afghanistan, where the so-called Iron... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Year Award for Right Kind of Wrong (Atria Books, 2023). Amy C. Edmondson : Ranked #1 in the 2021 and 2023 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers. Kris Johnson Ferreira : Inducted into the 2023 Council of Outstanding Young View Details

05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

more digitized, and creating the next line of leadership for the company that can take it forward for the next 15-20 years. “I see our company being a leading global precision engineering company in the next five to seven years and this... View Details

25 Jan 2024
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Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

me to play across these three dimensions: Technology: finding and supporting scientists and engineers to bring solutions out of the lab Capital: marshaling resources to deploy the solutions mature enough to make massive impact within the... View Details

December 2020 (Revised December 2021)
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Komatsu and Smart Construction

By: Rajiv Lal, David J. Collis and Akiko Saito

Komatsu, Japan's leading construction equipment manufacturer, is considering investing in a digital platform "Smart Construction" that will digitise the entire work process on a construction site, allowing for substantial reductions in cost and time while improving... View Details

Keywords: Platform; Digital Business; Construction; Business Model; Strategy; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Construction Industry; Japan

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24 Feb 2021
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)

IBM and my mom was a schoolteacher. I went to UVA for undergrad with a full scholarship and I studied Mechanical Engineering. How would you describe your financial situation coming into HBS? I was a mechanical engineer before HBS, making... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

April 2021 (Revised December 2021)
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The Carlyle Group: Carving Out Atotech

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

On January 31, 2017, The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle") closed its $3.2 billion acquisition of Atotech, an international Specialty Chemicals and Equipment company. In Carlyle's Washington, DC headquarters, the US-based deal team—Martin Sumner, Greg Nikodem, Tanaka Maswoswe... View Details

Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Deal; International Acquisition; International; Acquisition; Negotiation Deal; Transformation; Chemicals; Chemical Industry; United States; Europe; Asia; Germany

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29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

alumni and friends affirms its mission—to serve as an educational springboard that fosters peer collaboration beyond the boundaries of a particular Harvard school, enabling innovators to create meaningful impact across industries, sectors, and continents. An View Details

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

1965 41 By 1943, Edwin Land began to turn his thoughts to the post-war production efforts of Polaroid. The corporation had significantly expanded its research and engineering division for military activities and would need to focus on a... View Details

04 Dec 2023
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical device View Details

08 Oct 2008
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Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

demands, the head of the largest division of a Midwestern manufacturing company reluctantly drew the conclusion that his only alternative was to engineer a crisis. [ ] But energy within his organization did not emerge as a strong sense of... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

18 Dec 2019
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6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

always to improve mobility, and he did so through his company’s engine innovations. After coming up with the company’s trademarked CVCC engine, Honda declared that his company had pulled ahead of the top three car companies, “but his... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Ahmed Alimi

platform for middle-class Nigerians." "The resources at HBS have been amazing," says Ahmed. "At the i-lab, I've found a lot of support for the business, especially in the area of tech and product design. Just say 'hi' to someone, and it could be an... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

20 Oct 2010
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Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

from those that have been traditionally employed in export-driven growth strategies? Competitiveness strategies are broadly based, recognizing the need to upgrade performance across the entire economy, not just the export-oriented sectors. Export-oriented sectors are... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

14 Feb 2017
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A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

external circumstances, without altering strategic course. This is not a time for continuing the financial engineering so prevalent in the past decade. Rather, leaders need multiple contingency plans while preserving strong balance sheets... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

22 Mar 2023
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Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands

connected to the type of future I imagined for the coming decades. Although the time went by so quickly, I appreciated how much I saw and learned in such a short amount of time. I left feeling inspired by what other countries are doing in the sustainability space. As a... View Details

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Wyss House | About

foundation dedicated to supporting innovative, lasting solutions that improve lives, empower communities, and strengthen connections to the land. Wyss’ 2009 endowment of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering was the... View Details

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