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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Inc.—Engineered Products Division Harvard Business School Case 709-434 Curled Metal Incorporated has declining sales but has developed a new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, deliver customer benefits that are many times CMI's View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
viable manufacturing plan and significant cost overruns. An outside CEO was brought in to replace Bruce once the venture was formally launched as an independent entity. The company continued to struggle to meet its costs and to supply...
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by Henry Chesbrough
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
otherwise difficult to get an interview. I also had a cubicle at Intel in Santa Clara for fourteen months, and I also visited some of their sites including their fabrication facilities, which are incredible manufacturing operations. Q: So...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Electric is the division of General Motors (GM) that does all of the electrical wiring and cabling for GM automobiles. They developed a new approach for passing the cables through the firewall between the engine and passenger...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
future at the same time. It is like changing the engine of a plane while it is flying. Based on almost ten years of research, this book provides a framework for companies to reimagine their business. Using rich case studies and rigorous...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
supplier. Using data from a manufacturer of branded apparel, we show increases in service level to be associated with statistically significant increases in retailer orders (i.e., demand, not just sales). Controlling for other factors...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
of Apple's iPad made clear the need to transition his company to a new cloud-computing era. But the company's roots in the manufacture of Windows-powered desktop and notebook PCs bounded the creativity of his design and View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, delivers customer benefits that are many times SML's manufacturing costs. Jonathan Lee and Alex Tan of SML's Engineered Products Division are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
venture-funded startups in the networking/data communications industry sectors reveals that those startups that participate in an open standards community, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), have a greater likelihood of...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
literature that suggests firms reduce marketing expenditures in order to boost reported earnings, we find that soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of all marketing promotions (price discounts, feature advertisements, and aisle...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
product is being put together, it has been possible for manufacturers to leave those identification markers in the product. So later on when the same customer calls with an inquiry or a complaint, it is now so easy to go back to the...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
http://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/Eric%20Werker%20RR%20final.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 313-024 Cummins, Inc.: Building a Home Community for a Global Company In 2010, Tom Linebarger, president and COO of Cummins, Inc., the...
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Anna Secino
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
restrictions included the ability to get visas for highly talented foreign workers and graduate students. One of the great strengths of America is our phenomenal system of higher education; we have educated the world's engineers and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of marketing...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
When eight Investors' Circle members invested $2 million in Sonic Innovations, the company had a pre-money valuation of $5 million; seven years later, at IPO, the company's market value was $127 million. Evergreen Solar is a developer and View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
department a number of tokens it can "spend" annually on engineering work to build custom features—boosting the odds of signing contracts with new customers. In December 2010, a request for proposal from a very large utility...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
throughout the company. During his time at Volkswagen, de Meo focused on transforming the marketing department into an engine of innovation. De Meo and his team in marketing worked together to build a strong global brand. Purchase this...
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Anna Secino
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. Palepu and Khanna joined forces for our Q&A. Martha Lagace: Why study emerging markets? Krishna G. Palepu: Emerging markets are the growth engine for most Western...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in manufacturing plants where it had implemented teaming, which was designed to move decision making as close to the product as possible by delegating...
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Sean Silverthorne