Mechanisms - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

include: Team learning has value for organizations; learning in teams is seen as a key mechanism through which learning organizations become strategically and operationally adaptive and responsive. How the learning of individual work... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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IFC: Israel; Startups and Venture Capital - Course Catalog

combination of both depending on your individual circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library

instance, since we first introduced our Web site [www.library.hbs.edu] in early 1996, we've continued to add innovative services such as online mechanisms that allow patrons to ask reference questions, provide comments or suggestions,... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

HBS. Opportunities for engaging in professional "redipping" currently include reunions, global conferences, and club-sponsored lectures and programs. To expand upon these offerings, the committee will look carefully at emerging technologies and other possible delivery... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Get Well Soon

takeaway for students is the power of transparency as a mechanism for change,” says Tucker. “Another is the motivational value of benchmarking themselves to an internal standard of zero accidents instead of rationalizing poor perfor-mance... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to understand the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

must face tough regulation going forward, including strict limits on overall leverage and short-term debt. Under the new reform legislation, regulators will be empowered to rein in the largest financial institutions in precisely these ways. The legislation also... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators Clay Christensen on "The Innovator's DNA." WORKING PAPERS Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Innovation is not a side business, says Lynda Applegate. Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Dec 2009
News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

years, that’s an enormous technological transition. So the questions of how firms can organize themselves to do it, and what kinds of governance mechanisms will support and encourage them to do that, seem to me a natural extension of what... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Oct 2013
News

Moving the Needle

investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

semester in undergrad of organic chemistry, I realized I didn’t love medicine enough to commit to the long training. What I did love was my introduction to mechanical engineering. I eventually pivoted to View Details

15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

was really surprising.” The finding is useful for employers because as DC plans continue to proliferate, companies face more of a responsibility to effectively educate their workforce, particularly older workers who may not have benefited from View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

months, while the lifespan for other product models is a maximum of six months. "This makes it very important for the company to have highly efficient internal management and sales mechanisms to survive," he said. BBK's DVDs are... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

Initially aiming to recruit 1-2 summer interns to support me in my endeavor, I ended up hiring an amazing and diverse team of six interns who are as excited about the idea as I am. Given my background in mechanical engineering, I was... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

04 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Getting Accepted to HBS through the 2+2 Program

look into it because they knew how interested I was in business. Although I studied mechanical engineering, I was also getting a second degree in management science, and I knew that my future career would be more business-oriented than... View Details

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Viktor Puzakov

It seems that throughout his life, Viktor Puzakov is always digging deeper, literally and figuratively. As a young man interested in the technical sciences and in travel, he focused on fluid dynamics and rock mechanics to position himself... View Details

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Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

fundraising activities, corporate outreach, and an emerging area, conservation finance, which includes growing sustainable revenue streams through mechanisms such as carbon offsets. Impact Much of my work at the United Way focused on... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities

you might say—about the mechanical effects of an economic policy. We are not very good at thinking about the broader value judgments underneath those decisions. What part does the minimum wage debate play in larger policy discussion about... View Details

Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing

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