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- 15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense
“Iron Man suit.” The idea seemed absurd—but not because of the comic-book connotations. Tseng, with a background in mechanical engineering and on-the-ground experience in actual conflict zones such as Afghanistan, where the so-called Iron...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Download Jakurski profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1948 Born, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1971 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Pontifícia Universidade...
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Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
captured by this data. For Heese, whose work focuses on the governance mechanisms that are most effective in reducing misconduct, this study raises larger questions: Once a community loses its paper, is there another way to keep a check...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
affair was an expression of rebellion, his doctor says, “I tell you, Carl, nobody will ever be able to measure all the human misery that is the indirect result of the inescapable boredom and sense of purposelessness that derives from a civilization so View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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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...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
satisfaction. In the mid-1950s their studies culminated with the publication of The Foreman and the Assembly Line and Turner's influential Harvard Business Review article, "Management and the Assembly Line." Both these works demonstrated how assembly-line technology,...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book
bookselling industry, is growing. The American Booksellers Association counted 2,321 physical independent bookstores in the United States in 2017—40 percent more than there were in 2009. Raffaelli, who has also researched what he calls “technology reemergence” in the...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was created with two goals in mind: to...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“There’s a tendency to think, How hard could it be to run an arts organization? The answer is, every bit as hard; we just don’t have as many zeroes at the end of our budget. The practical mechanics of performing 200 concerts and reaching...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
track its effectiveness and set benchmarks for improvement. "Nonprofits are so important in our society," she said. "They fulfill essential purposes. But they lack the market mechanisms of corporations where, if a board falls asleep at...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Jul 2019
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The Power of Entrepreneurship
everything. When you go to the slums of Mexico, they don't have that privilege. And it's a complete market failure. So it is two parts: It's access to better products and services in the emerging middle class and entrepreneurship as a View Details
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Finance
- 28 Sep 2018
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Pushing Progress at Panasonic
includes everything from welding machines to surveillance systems. “This know-how of making complicated mechanical things operate smoothly is still alive in Japan and it’s in Panasonic’s DNA,” Higuchi told Bloomberg. READ MORE
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects
Square Task Force, and in-class libraries for early readers at the Winship Elementary School in Brighton. The Harbus Foundation was formed in 1997, using surplus funds generated from the HBS student newspaper, the Harbus, as a mechanism...
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- 22 Sep 2009
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The Case for Regulatory Reform
and create a mechanism for dismantling failing financial institutions. In short, the administration is staking future financial stability on a much larger regulatory role for government, an approach advocated by Moss. “Government is a...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
mechanism for helping local communities and an educational experience for the HBS students who will run it and manage its funds. This year, the Harbus Foundation announced nine grants totaling $73,000 in the areas of journalism, literacy,...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
innovation framework to advancing education and health care. Referring to HBS as a “distribution mechanism by which we can help people that we could not directly reach,” Christensen encourages alumni to consider their relationship with...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
poll. This spring, the second annual poll garnered an impressive 92 percent response rate among first-year students. Moret was first drawn to student affairs at Louisiana State University, where he had been admitted on a music scholarship and ultimately studied View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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New Releases
performance, customer knowledge, internal processes, and learning and growth. The balanced scorecard is a practical management tool that marshals the value-added potential of people throughout the organization toward the achievement of long-term goals while providing a...
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- 01 Aug 2013
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A Cure for Cold Storage
Tufts biomedical engineering professor who had discovered a way to employ silk to create stable vaccine storage. Schrader, with a mechanical engineering background and experience in product development, was intrigued, and joined up with...
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