Engineering - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Dec 2019
Book

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

November 2004 (Revised July 2006)
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Patrimonio Hoy

By: Arthur I Segel, Michael Chu and Gustavo Herrero

Patrimonio Hoy is a program targeting the housing needs of the low-income population by CEMEX, a major Mexican company and a leading global cement producer. Originally conceived as a project to understand the customers in the self-construction segment better, a major... View Details

Keywords: Housing; Construction; Product Design; Globalized Firms and Management; Microfinance; Income; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico

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01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

matched in ambition by its goals, which include nothing less than creating an economic growth engine that can support the world’s youngest and fastest-growing continental population, says Mark Tatum (MBA 1998), the NBA’s deputy... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

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
Research & Ideas

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

23 May 2018
News

Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Rio de Janeiro 1969 Earns BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering 1974 Earns PhD, Economics, University of Chicago 1974 Named... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

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

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

This will help in developing market solutions to confront environmental problems. In addition, last year we opened our mid-US research center with a goal of identifying opportunities for investment, innovation, and new engines of growth... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

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

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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

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

the author of more than 100 papers and nine books. Dr. Kaplan received a BS and MS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in operations research from Cornell University. Krishna G. Palepu is the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

efficiently and decrease costs as we increase service levels to customers," says Nathaniel Leonard, supply chain director for the Engineered Products Division of Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron, Ohio. Taken together, the company's... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

numerous undertakings to roll out no- or low-emission products and processes in multiple sectors. Hence, the major auto producers, globally, have announced commitments to phase out production of new internal combustion engines by 2035 to... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

Power Engineering Get the latest news on the power industry. This site covers all major sectors including Gas, Coal, Renewables, Nuclear, Energy Storage, Decentralized Energy, Onsite Power, etc. RIGZONE Provides industry professionals... View Details

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

“Larger companies are rarely seen as fountains of innovation,” says Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano. Yet scale, if properly exploited, can still be an engine for transformation. In his new book Creative Construction: The DNA... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Perfecting the Project Pitch

marketing song and dance. "People with engineering backgrounds tend to struggle in this process," says Harvard Business School Associate Professor Thomas Steenburgh, who teaches the Business Marketing course that includes an... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

reduce the psychological fear. In addition, India is rising because there's just a ton of very well-trained doctors just like there is a ton of well-trained engineers. Over the decades, many engineers have relocated to Silicon Valley, but... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

startup that you co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest... View Details

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Celebrating 100 Years of the HBS Case Method

General Shoe Company case, with HBS Professor Jan W. Rivkin Get a case writer's perspective in An Ode to the Case Method and the Beauty of Engineering Disagreement Stay tuned for much more, including faculty videos about the case method,... View Details

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

held against him the fact that he is an immigrant. Nor was he held back because he is of Jewish origin. When he graduated first in his engineering class at the City College of New York in 1960, he was quoted in The New York Times to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

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