The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. &# The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.

Engineering 114

Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing 114

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

Books 85

Books Review Management Ansoff 85

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. For example, in 2004, Renault launched Logan, a small, no-frills family car.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. According to ComScore, at the end of 2011 Facebook accounted for a shocking 28% of U.S. When Google IPO'd in 2004, the company's advertising business had tailwinds; internet penetration was only at around 68% in the U.S.

IPO 13

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” They were desperately looking for great engineers, designers, and business people – but were very picky about who they hired. For example, one new engineer reported that his dad called to say, “There’s a problem with this drop-down menu.”

Engineering 12

Engineering Class Software Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. He reportedly took home compensation of $1.7 billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8