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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
Harvard Business School offers to incoming students. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content of Business Analytics and Economics for Managers showed me new ways for using the theoretical... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)
What was your undergraduate university and major? I studied petroleum engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2 deferred admissions process? While at OU, I got involved in an organization... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The program consists of six core courses, two seminars, and two in-person immersions, and can be completed in as little as nine months. How does Business Analytics... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
comes to getting a job done, of course competence trumps likability. "I can defuse my antipathy toward the jerk if he's competent, but I can't train someone who's incompetent," says the CIO at a large engineering company. Or, in... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
company plants appeared in national magazines, company publications, and exhibitions that reached large audiences. This stunning body of images included the work of noted artists, photographers from the corporation’s engineering corps,... View Details
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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen
View Video Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen (MBA 2019) is accustomed to changing directions. At age fifteen, he moved from his home in Venezuela in the midst of civil and political unrest, seeking safety and opportunity in the United States. He pursued chemical View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022
on a date. It was with a guy I met on an app. A kinda sketchy app looking back on it. I had just moved to Texas (from Pittsburgh) for short term engineering work. I’d had my share of dating bruises and was just in Texas dating for fun. So... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
engineering fixes to allow users easier control over sharing information on their Facebook pages. In fact, Zuckerberg reportedly was working with engineers for several days doing just that while the world... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Innovation Outside the Boundaries
Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) “one of the most interesting examples of innovations that encourage students to take advantage of the breadth of Harvard’s offerings. Whether it’s in collaboration with SEAS, the Kennedy School, or... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
encounter beyond the test,” De Freitas explains. “But we can’t just make the same assumptions about AVs because common sense is part of what’s being engineered into their systems in the first place.” "The solution is not to make AVs... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
roadmap. Engineers and product managers love it when they’re “left alone.” Take the time to do deeper customer discovery and requirements gathering. Customers might be more open to participating in beta tests, new feature rollouts, focus... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
understand my accent, and I had to readjust to Nigerian culture — relearning Yoruba, making new friends, understanding how things were done.” In 1990, Gbadegesin, then seventeen, came back to the United States to study engineering at... View Details
- 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
- 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