Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2014
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Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; United Kingdom

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January 2008 (Revised March 2011)
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Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible

By: Anthony J. Mayo, Mark Benson and David Chen

From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to become one of the leading industrialists of 20th century America. Though he had no technical engineering training, Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several... View Details

Keywords: History; Mission and Purpose; Transition; Management Practices and Processes; Construction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Civil Society or Community; Business Strategy; Planning; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; United States

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The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

States. Survive or Sink by Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) Rupa Kidwai underscores the role that citizens, industry, civil society, media, and the government need to play in collaboration with each other to... View Details

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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library

More than 900 of these photographs have been digitized and are available online . Thorp D. Sawyer Papers Thorp D. Sawyer (left) and colleagues near La Paz, Bolivia, 1914 View Collection Thorp D. Sawyer was... View Details

02 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

government turns out to be different from that in the United States. It shows that big business emerged as a constructive player in environmental policy in the 1960s, when it persuaded the government to establish a joint research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

introduction and course themes, 2) creating and claiming value, 3) preparing for tough negotiations, 4) dealing effectively with hard bargainers, 5) Two-level games/internal View Details

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)

What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? I graduated from Washington University with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and, just before applying to HBS, I was a... View Details

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Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

hallmark of civilization is “proper” usage of the land, privileging tilling and resource extraction over other methods of cultivation. Of course, Indigenous peoples have engaged for centuries in regenerative... View Details

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Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>

managers included engineers from West Point or the War Department—individuals well versed in civil and military engineering View Details

18 Jun 2024
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Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

issue. What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? I graduated from Washington University with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and, just before applying to HBS, I was a... View Details

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increase dramatically... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Company, 1950–1969 Reuben Mark Colgate-Palmolive Company, 1984–Present John W. Marriott Marriott-Hot Shoppes, 1927–1972 J. Willard Marriott, Jr. Marriott International, 1972–Present Forrest E. Mars, Sr. Mars, 1964–1973 Charles D. Marshall McClintic View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

authority over the entire canal project, including the right to fire commission members. Secretary of War William Howard Taft had doubts about the legality of granting the chief engineer control over the commission, which was technically... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

whose 20-year service in the US Navy Civil Engineer Corps included a combat tour with the Seabees in Vietnam. Philip's mother was a Navy junior whose father attended the US Naval Academy View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Lu and Bob Kaplan. They discuss how Harvard is pilot testing the use of green concrete in its current construction projects as part of the university’s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. They’ll also... View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

property come into being and inflect material and ideological life. The study of finance as a concept constructed by law and naturalized by... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Stakeholder Relations (4) Business or Company Management (19) COVID-19 (127) Capital Markets (13) Capital Structure (1) Capital (65) Cash Flow (1) Cash (2) Central Banking (2) Change Management (67) Change (116) Civil Society or Community... View Details

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