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Kyle Bisutti
Responsibility: overseeing one-hundred employees building the thrust reversers that ensure the uneventful deceleration of aircraft on airport runways. With two summers at General Motors in Detroit, and six years at General Electric, Kyle... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
decisive, enduring advantages, therefore, become unique local centers of innovation for the likes of mutual funds, venture capital, and biotechnology in Greater Boston or aircraft equipment and design, boat- and shipbuilding, and metal... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
General Electric 1997 Named President and CEO, GE Aircraft Engines 2000 Named Chairman and CEO, 3M 2005 Named Chairman, President, and CEO, Boeing 2015 Named CEO of the Year by Chief Executive magazine 2016 Retires from Boeing Retired... View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. According to Bloomberg, the acquisition is the largest defense industry deal since... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
aircraft with a 25 percent duty, the applicable weight range of 15-45,000 kg meant that only 24 older-generation Boeing 787-800s would be impacted, not any of its newest 737 Max aircraft or any widebodies,... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
carrier-based jet fighter program. When introduced, the first jet aircraft were underpowered and in many ways inferior to propeller-driven aircraft of the time. This book examines the Navy’s internal... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
(MBA ’91), a managing director in the firm’s Boston office. (See the International Checklist.) Working abroad can also develop new skills and open doors to future opportunities. Sean Keohane (MBA ’96), for example, had never visited Asia when his employer after HBS,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too
lenses, our place in the world appeared immutable. Fortunately for me, that was about to change. Two military aircraft suddenly flew low and fast over the field where I was riding. As they tore through the sky, I imagined the sensation of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
featured Horácio Forjaz, EVP of corporate communication at Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer; Ana Maria Diniz, EVP of operations for Grupo Pão de Açúcar, Brazil's largest food retailer; and María Asunción Aramburuzabala, vice... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
fields. The Cobras engaged the enemy north of the berm for several minutes until one of the aircraft mistakenly fired a HELLFIRE missile that hit one of the M1A1 tanks located only seventy meters from Major Gurfein. The civilian bulldozer... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
JetBlue moved from a single aircraft type (i.e., the Airbus 320, or A320) to a fleet with two types of aircraft by adding the smaller Embraer 190, or E190. Students are initially asked to consider the impact... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Rebecca Greenbaum
then the Strike Officer, leading 18 sailors on the Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles team. After further education at the Nuclear Engineering School, the Navy's most advanced school, Rebecca served on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
an aircraft carrier, meeting with the King, police escorts when I travel. But you get used to that — well, maybe not the aircraft carrier. Security is tight, but any freedom of movement I have to give up is... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
nine associated firms specializing in the manufacture and repair of turbine engines for the aircraft and other industries. But in addition to his business career, Twaalfhoven has long carried the flag for the cause of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
Kirby, a leading scholar of China and faculty chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai, parlayed their contacts into valuable educational opportunities for the students. Highlights of the trip included visiting the R&D center for state-owned Commercial View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
York, before joining the Navy in 1941, before Pearl Harbor. A few months later, I was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lexington when Japanese planes attacked us in the Battle of the Coral Sea. I was a supply and disbursing officer, and... View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
mantra was measurement. As secretary of defense, McNamara developed, along with key subordinates, including Robert Anthony of the HBS control faculty, long-range procurement cycles. He even tried to get the U.S. Navy to subscribe to a common View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
in Latin America. The two-day event featured a case discussion (on Embraer, the Brazilian commercial aircraft manufacturer), presentations and analysis of new research, and discussions on the complexities of case writing throughout the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
Subside Panelist Horacio Forjaz, of Brazilian aircraft manucturer Embraer (see related article), concurred with Austin's description of standard case methodology, but added a few comments on what the experience had been like from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Joe Stenger
two fighter aircraft flew low and fast directly over me. To this day, I remember the rumbling I felt in my chest as they turned on their afterburners. As they tore through the sky, I imagined the sensation of piloting such a machine, and... View Details