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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
The idea seemed feasible because Mends had once met Winfrey through a personal connection at college. "I thought it was a fabulous possibility for several reasons," Koehn explained. "One, based on intuition, was that there's something very View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
he was “a businessman who became a teacher,” spent nine years at General Electric and also worked at Corning Glass and Sperry Gyroscope before coming to HBS. An authority on manufacturing and planning, he... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
ecosystem that will improve access to electricity in off-grid communities across the globe. “It sounds complicated,” Ayala says, “but we set it up this way to have a globally scalable business model.” Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
their hybrid-fiber-coaxial (HFC) network lose out to the All Fiber Network (AFN) developed by the electric power companies in concert with RCN-inspired entrepreneurs. No, wait. It's 2010, and the channels... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
generation of Internet-savvy consumers, and how today's CEOs can transform their own focus and that of their organizations from "dot-com" concerns to a more sweeping "dot-corp" vision. Next up was Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
capital by foot, subte (subway), bus, and bright yellow bike-share bicycles. Pedestrian-only Florida Street in Buenos Aires. (Photos courtesy of John Macomber) Professor Macomber and students at the new electric View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s research on greenhouse... View Details
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Andrew Dervan
operations in a General Electric jet engine facility. "I think of the operating room from the perspective of a doctor," Andrew says. "But wouldn't it be great if I could learn from GE, if I... View Details
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Tariro Goronga
engineering.” His first post-university assignment as an electrical engineer gave him the variety he sought. “I did pretty much everything: power supply and generation, motors, electronics.” But after two... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
many infrastructure challenges as well. It is one of the rainiest lands in the world, making many of its roads impassable half of the year. There's little electricity generated, about enough to power a small... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
years progressing from a Sr. Mechanical Engineer to Vice President roles. Abe Murray MBA '07, Harvard University; MS, Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; BS in Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island Abe is a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Running faster to compete
in 1978 and put the now $26 million company on the international map with Aquamesh. As the company expanded, Knott implemented innovative, money-saving measures, such as generating electricity via... View Details
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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
question of how to supply energy to the new Business School campus. Rather than build a new power station in Allston, the University decided to transport heat and electricity from an existing facility. View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
international negotiations, I've seen numerous promising deals fail because people ignored or underestimated the powerful differences in processes across cultures... . . . What are the informal influences that can make or break a deal?... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 24 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020
engineering and business." Jeff Chen BE & BBA, Mechanical Engineering and General Business Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "I am most excited by the unique experiences that the MS/MBA:... View Details
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Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar Tractor Co. View Details
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Nicolas Weninger | MBA
Nicolas Weninger Electrical Engineering (SB) Kirkland 2020 Cohort 1 I am fascinated by not only engineering, but also its implementations in solving real world problems and creating viable solutions. The Undergraduate Technology... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
themselves, the scientific communities that covet the Prizes, the general public, and, finally, the media. "With the exception of awardees of the Peace Prize, who often are statesmen or celebrities who have their own renown, there is not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar Tractor Co. View Details