Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
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Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship

A generous gift from Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) will establish a new chair at HBS and support teaching and learning in the field of information technology as it relates to... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

Peter Tufano

Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
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Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao

Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China

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20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

a bank, a lending company, or an equity transaction company, or move up the food chain and be able to provide richer, higher services much like we see in what we're terming the incubation space today.... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

M.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair for MS Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, Chief of Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital Douglas Melton, Ph.D.... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

department. Next he went to Stanford, earned a master's in electrical engineering, and worked in California for several years, starting at Hewlett-Packard before moving on to Sprint PCS. Gbadegesin says HBS... View Details

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

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

system that includes basic research, design, engineering, product and process development and production of goods and View Details

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

research rethinks what academics and practitioners have simply called the supply chain—a loose federation of individual suppliers that feed companies with the goods and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Service

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Podcast - Business & Environment

helps brands run their own resale channels, and how AI and automation are reshaping their operations. James also describes related public policies like extended producer... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Professor Choudhury studies the future of work, in particular how remote work, hybrid work, and work-from-anywhere is changing the geography of work. His talk will cover two related topics: Why organizations... View Details

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a relationship with an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

business owner and tech entrepreneur from Arizona Programming & System Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Estrella Mountain Community College Small Business Administration, Northern Arizona University Apply... View Details

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Ethan Li

time at HBS—in class and out—is valuable. I love the case study method; it helps me relate my prior experience to future goals. For example, we just had a case about the international expansion of a Japanese... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

entrepreneurial culture relative to its Wall Street counterparts, but competition in the investment banking industry is intensifying in 1997 due to a wave of mega-mergers. The new combined banking entities are able to offer customers a broader array of products View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Programs & Events HBS Entrepreneurship Summit NOV 4-5 4-5 NOVEMBER 2022 HBS ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT: LEADING HIGH-GROWTH VENTURES IN AN UNPREDICTABLE WORLD Brought to you by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Alumni View Details

01 Jun 2019
News

Case Study: Mind the Gap

The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

scale, and achieve meaningful progress on climate solutions . Through expert panels, case discussions, and networking, participants considered the role of the firm, individual business leaders, View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

RoboCar, the Sequel

Alden Photo courtesy William Alden Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Consider the case of William Alden (MBA ’52), as reported in the Cape Cod Times (April 12, 2011). More than 50 years ago, Alden was working on an automated mail-flow system for the Postal... View Details