Engineering And Construction - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
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Thinking globally about business challenges and people's lives

Stever Robbins (MBA 1991) is a serial entrepreneur who applies an engineering mindset to solving problems for companies and coaching people through career and life changes.... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

has two parts. The first discusses the geological and social history of the site, focusing mainly on the park’s construction in the late 1850s and 1860s. The second part has... View Details

15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

business is to make money and maximize shareholder value. She shows that we have failed to reimagine capitalism as not only an engine of prosperity, but also a system in harmony with environmental realities,... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Turley (PMD 43, 1982) The Brier Patch Petroleum engineering professor Tony Zanatelli signs a summer-job contract to manage the drilling of a 20,000-foot-deep exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy company MillPet owns the lease... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) was the subject of the schools’ first joint research symposium in May 2016. Held at HBS, it sparked excitement about what could be achieved when... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

Koehn, with a presentation titled "Managing Change in the Third Industrial Revolution." Koehn galvanized the gathering with an interactive lecture and slide presentation that drew lessons from business history View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

of all Black engineers attended an HBCU. There's 101 HBCUs today, and there's 300,000 students attending HBCUs, 70 percent of those students receive Pell Grants, which is for people who come from households... View Details

26 Mar 2015
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Improving the environment through green spaces and commercial buildings

Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co., a family-owned commercial construction company, is helping Houston become a greener city. “We in the commercial construction... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

temporary structures were built during World War II to accommodate participants in the School's military training programs, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the next major construction push took place. Much thought View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Graphics, recalls that her Entrepreneurial Marketing classmates included cross-registrants from Harvard's schools of education and government as well as students from Stanford's School of Engineering... View Details

11 May 2011
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The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS

beauty in topography or tree growth.” Much progress has been made since then! More than 2,000 trees have been planted on the campus since 1971, but given construction and other factors, about 880 trees are... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

02 Dec 2019
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Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna

drive the ship rather than just keep it running,” she explains. While Iyer’s focus is on the business side, she marvels at the creative side. “I’m excited to be in this environment, constantly meeting people such as artists and View Details

01 Feb 1998
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C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

affordable education for all. As he once said of North Carolina's citizens, "In a sense, we are a large family. We will try to direct the proper proportion of our strengths and assets to each member of the family." A Charlotte native,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

visible places where people can see cars charging out in the wild.” Green Construction Many American cities have ambitious green-building goals, and some states—notably Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York,... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets

places such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore factor Feng shui into the design and construction of buildings, because its principles are widely known to make work... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn

insists, “it's theirs.” One opinion that was heard loud and clear during Schock's SA service was a call for a new prescription drug plan for HBS students. Schock was among student leaders who met with University health officials View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Brill

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

utilities to review their established capacity-based strategies. "My predecessor, Guy Nichols, became persuaded by the arguments of a number of engineers and environmentalists who contended that the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

Rosenbloom, with almost four decades of service on the HBS faculty, is an editor of and contributor to Engines of Innovation: U.S. Industrial Research at the End of an Era, published last year. He teaches... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

believe that we can just take existing processes for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and improve them through optimizing the chemical engineering process. The fundamental bottleneck that... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade

inadequate and costly telecommunications, income and education disparities, and corruption. Add to that a history of political and economic... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

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