Engineering - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2013
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Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their workplaces. What makes them... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

first transparent packaging film, was invented in 1908 by the Swiss engineer Jacques Brandenberger. He dubbed it “cellophane” as a combination of the words “cellulose” (of which it was made) and “diaphane” (an archaic form of the word... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

WIZZIT's founders thought there was a noble and viable business model in bringing banking to the poor, via a mobile banking platform that could be used on even the most primitive cell phone. They succeeded in finding an engineer to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

22 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Launching the Women in Tech Initiative at HBS

investors, and engineers from companies such as Facebook, Bridgewater, Nutanix, Tenable and McKinsey. Goals and Charter of the Group As a new group, the team was focused on establishing a stable foundation upon which future generations of... View Details

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

01 Oct 2001
News

Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

shifting sense of priorities. Born in India, he went to boarding school in England and earned a degree in mechanical engineering at Manchester University. After graduating from HBS with distinction, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

March 2015
Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White

BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

introducing the work of leading photographers into its feature articles. Fortune “used the intersections of fine art and mass culture . . . to position the engines of capitalism as critical to the functioning of a healthy economy but also... 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

November 2004 (Revised July 2006)
Case

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 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

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

24 May 2017
News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

international product development until she was promoted to lead its $500-million desktop business group. Two years later, when IBM acquired the firm, she was recruited by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to build its software business. At DEC she launched... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's way of thinking, it could do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

expertise are not bad things, but sometimes they narrow the way we think about problems because we think we have the right answer. One of the stories that I included in my book Rebel Talent was about the airline pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, who lost power in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

According to Danaher, the DBS engine “drives the company through a never-ending cycle of change and improvement: exceptional people develop outstanding plans and execute them using world-class tools to construct sustainable processes,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

and Coding Clubs, Bracaglia keeps in close proximity to the critical design and engineering aspects of his ambitions. But it’s the school’s general management focus that he believes will prove most useful. “As a general manager, you’re... View Details

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

astonished," said an engineer interviewed after the announcement. "Many Rakuten employees are allergic to English." “If they don't have a language strategy, they'll regret it” In a company where just 10 percent of all... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

when I was three years old. Not wanting me to struggle with them as they built a new life in a foreign land, they left me with my grandparents back home. Even though my mom had an engineering degree and years of work experience under her... View Details

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

speed building, we raced towards the desert floor. “Sight picture, how do you feel?” I asked. “I’m steep, sir,” the student replied, as she tilted the nose down to make the correction. Tiny corrections now: a little left, a slight bunt of the nose. We raced... View Details

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