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Constanza Oliveira e Sousa
You’ve accepted a position at Education First, but your background is in engineering. What happened? It’s true, I don’t have an education background. By training, I’m an electrical engineer, and I did my MS in robotics and artificial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Quantum Leap
with that tech background and a degree in electrical engineering, Ricotta had to get up to quantum speed when he joined Aliro. Quantum computing is a different paradigm, Ricotta explains. Whereas classical computers use bits and bytes to... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful body. In this paper, we empirically investigate whether board membership leads... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
several of these relationships in depth. An electrical parts distributor for General Electric, they observed, initially adhered closely to its informal agreement with the company, but eventually provided... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
David Grabowski, and David Cutler Abstract— Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Abhay Saboo
wanted to be afraid to lead engineers and technical people." To complement his technical skills, he looked for employment "where I could learn how to work with good people to deliver great results." As a participant in the View Details
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Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
Born and raised in Ghana, Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu saw “the impact that business and the private sector have on developing nations.” After graduating from Ashesi University College, she pursued a dynamic career at General View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European... View Details
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Research in Action - Alumni
Giving Research in Action Giving Research in Action Power in Practice The inspiration for and impact of faculty research This video series showcases how HBS faculty pursue research that resonates with their passions and View Details
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Amanda Pratt
There's a part of Amanda Pratt that wants a clear understanding of the world's quantifiable pieces, the side that encouraged her to pursue math and science, and to get a graduate degree in electrical engineering. "I liked the idea of... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress
financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big screen, Diamond was struck by the lack... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
injects uncertainty into the consumer's relative product valuations since she is unable to observe the entire catalog of products that the retailer will sell that season. Rationally acting consumers may respond to this additional uncertainty by purchasing more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
textile work. A few collections — such as the 2,500-volume R.G. Dun & Co. credit report collection and the detailed productivity studies from Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne, Illinois, plant — were known by library staff and scholars... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
discussed earlier is an example. Throughout this book, we will document how the presence of an industrial commons can exert a powerful gravitational pull on the location of industries and innovation (and conversely, how the absence of an... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
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A Man on a Mission
and—inspired by a guest speaker, an electrical engineer who said he made $300 a week, a distant dream to a boy in his circumstances—an electrical engineer. But given his family's financial limitations,... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
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A Sustainable Approach to Physics Education
Ogden, who grew up in a working-class family, recalls the power of his own education, leading up to his time at HBS, where the idea of paying it forward was part of the School’s DNA. “There’s something in the genetic code of the School... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
alumni and beyond as a series of powerful lenses through which to understand the most important challenges facing business leaders. Course Content and Objectives This is a foundational general management... View Details
Platform for Dialogue
fashion, American and Indian cinema, Middle Eastern oil, Chilean minerals, Japanese and Greek shipping, and much more, to synthesize historical drivers of global change, I became convinced by the power of true Socratic teaching as... View Details