Publications

September 1993
Supplement

Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (C)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

ALZA, a drug delivery company, considers marketing its own and other companies' products. The primary issue is whether to build an internal sales force focused on a few niche markets, to finance a sales force through alliances, or to acquire a marketing company. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Marketing; Alliances; Research and Development; Salesforce Management; Business Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry

January 1991 (Revised March 1991)
Case

Hewlett-Packard: Corporate, Group, and Divisional Manufacturing (A)

By: David A. Garvin

Keywords: Computer Industry

January 1986 (Revised February 1989)
Background Note

Note on Group Technology & Cellular Manufacturing

30 Jul 2013
News

Manufacturing Confidence: The Wisdom of Amy Cuddy

24 Feb 2023
News

Biden’s Green Manufacturing Push Is Bearing Fruit

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel TVs, but less comfortable for manufacturers hoping to make a profit. That’s according to recent... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

29 Jun 2020
News

Como Audio launches crowdfunding effort for a Braintree manufacturing plant

Research Summary

Buyers, Sellers, Manufacturers in China’s Emerging Market around 1900

Ever since the economic reforms in the post-Mao period China’s economy as an emerging market has attracted much interest. However, we tend to forget that China was already an emerging market at the turn of the 19^th century, if not earlier. This... View Details

January 2008 (Revised October 2015)
Case

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy

By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Wong

After fifty-five years in the semiconductor industry, Morris Chang, founder and Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), was seeing a change. After four decades of regular double-digit growth the industry was still growing-but now at a much slower... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Globalized Firms and Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Semiconductor Industry; Shanghai; Taiwan

Educators

July 1989
Case

Seneca Wire and Manufacturing Co.: The Loopro Line

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

January 2018
Supplement

Fuyao Glass: Making Automotive Windshields

By: Willy C. Shih

This supplementary video shows the manufacturing process for automotive windshields. It is intended for use with HBS Case no. 618-007 Fuyao Glass: Americas Sourcing Decision. View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Footprint; Production Management; Production; Management; Auto Industry; China; United States

2013
Book

Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education

By: Michel Anteby

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page and Harvard Business School trains many future business leaders. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure its members embrace proper business standards? Relying on his faculty experience, Michel Anteby... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Business Education; Higher Education; Education; Education Industry; United States

November 1973
Article

Men and Machines in Indonesia's Light Manufacturing Industry

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Production; Machinery and Machining; Manufacturing Industry; Indonesia

September 1997 (Revised May 1998)
Case

Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America: The Quest for a Model Workplace

By: Lynn S. Paine and Dale Coxe

This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The recommendations developed for the company by former U.S. Labor Secretary Lynn Marten are presented. In response to... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior; Attitudes; Problems and Challenges; Working Conditions; Crime and Corruption; Auto Industry; United States

Educators

February 1990 (Revised February 1992)
Supplement

Manufacturing Learning Laboratory at Digital Equipment Corp. (B)

By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Paul Sagawa

January 1981 (Revised January 1982)
Case

Boise Cascade: Manufactured Housing Division, Lafayette Region (B)

By: Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Housing; Construction Industry

August 1980 (Revised June 1985)
Background Note

Management Accounting, Part II: Manufacturing Cost Accounting Systems