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- 05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) is executive director of Precision Camshafts Limited, a large precision manufacturing company in Solapur, India, and a partner in MAYU, a luxury goods startup. What’s a...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he purchased Beatty Brothers, a...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Losing Our Competitive Edge
not just suppliers of advanced materials, production equipment, and components, but also R&D know-how, advanced process development and engineering skills, and manufacturing competencies. Making matters even...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Where the Jobs Are
developing nations as an engine for job creation back home (see article). Innovation is also the ticket to survival for smaller manufacturers, reports Senior Associate Editor Garry Emmons, who talked with the proprietors of family-owned...
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- 17 Dec 2015
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Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
the next phase of his career. “I see business playing an increasingly important role in the aerospace industry, going beyond just having the engineering know-how to build a spacecraft. In the past, spacecraft were primarily built and...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Ramchandran Jaikumar, the School's Daewoo Professor of Business Administration and a renowned authority on manufacturing management and technology, died on February 10 of a heart attack while mountain climbing in Quito, Ecuador. He was 53...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
authentically adapt it to the local market,” says Prakash. “Building up our team, dealers, and manufacturing capabilities from a clean sheet of paper was really rewarding.” After India, Prakash served in the same role in Canada and is now...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
magnate is as filled with plot twists as a good adventure novel. Engineer to Entrepreneur Rogers took a winding road to entrepreneurship. A self-described “geeky” kid, he graduated with an engineering degree...
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- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
of our manufacturing happens in China, so the basic manufacturing piece—assembling millions of parts at just the right time, building high-quality widgets, selecting the right colors, and so on—that’s one...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
their start-up pitches to a panel of judges in late April. To his surprise, Mahesh, representing the HBS Club of India, took top honors and was awarded a $25,000 cash prize for his plan to manufacture low-cost medical beds for Indian...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?
support, and back-office processing to America. Strengthening the industrial base. Remember, too, that many high-value-added services are often closely connected to manufacturing and can be delivered only locally. Production View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Family Matters
being a CEO of a multinational corporation. She even dressed the part, going to school in a pantsuit. But the path to the corner office is often an expensive one. Thompson-Woode learned this as a high schooler in Brooklyn when she wanted to attend a 10-day student...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless...
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- 16 Mar 2018
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Giving Back to Help The Next Generation
game-changer for me,” says Sergio. “That was critical in my decision to pursue an MBA at HBS.” The former engineering major from Chicago left her operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
creative guy. Since high school, he’s paid homage to both — becoming an engineer who also loves to act in community theater. Still, the question loomed: Could his seemingly opposite sides be united in a common career goal? As a youngster...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entrepôt to China. After the Communists came to power in 1949, Hong Kong had to transform itself as a manufacturing center, and our company changed to one of exporting what Hong Kong produced. It built its reputation exporting...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Saving the Steel Industry
USW would insist that executive pay be limited and that union representatives serve on the board. “We’re not going to save a company and go back to the old way of doing things,” explained Bloom, who engineered numerous steel-industry...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
engine manufacturing division of United Technologies, offered him a post managing a joint venture in Taipei, Taiwan. Keohane had chosen the company because its global operations presented many “right-sized”...
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