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- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
Neil Kashyap and Neil Lombardo (HBS '08) acquired Winnan Metal, Inc., a metal fabrication shop, after raising a search fund and embarking on an 11-month search to fulfill their dreams of becoming business...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
two. Though a step in the right direction, this approach suffers because the boundary between "market" and "nonmarket" is artificial and far from clear-cut. We find it more productive to focus on the key types of games...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
textile work. A few collections — such as the 2,500-volume R.G. Dun & Co. credit report collection and the detailed productivity studies from Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne, Illinois, plant — were known by library staff and scholars...
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- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
The competitiveness of many multinational companies depends on their ability to transfer intellectual property and other intangible assets to their worldwide production processes. These sources of competitive advantage can be anything...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
For Brian Bedol, the founder and CEO of Bedrocket Media Ventures, entrepreneurship was deeply engrained from his childhood in Cleveland. Bedol’s father founded a successful small housewares manufacturing and View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
company in 2006 that involves letting go 5,000 employees and managing the transition to a more diversified product line based on the company’s proprietary technologies. In one instance, Fuji manufactures...
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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
manufacturing compliance services company to the U.K. and Europe. He has to decide whether to hire Wayne Snelgrove and how to define the scope of his responsibilities. Purchase the case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the world's largest manufacturer of...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the world’s largest manufacturer of...
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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
you never have it figured out. Unlike other industries, you can't manufacture endless quantities of the product on a predictable cost curve." As the hunt for oil goes on, even optimists agree that the search...
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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
still growing-but now at a much slower pace. In 2004, TSMC entered the China market, the world's second largest for semiconductors, by building a fabrication plant in Shanghai. Was China the market opportunity in which TSMC could bet on...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
where people are both willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires. Collective Genius will not only inspire you; it will give you the concrete, practical guidance you need to build innovation into the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
manufacturer (ODM)? Tung Lung Metal Industries Co. Ltd. is a Taiwanese maker of door lock hardware that is faced with the question of whether to continue to focus on its ODM business or start placing more...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
software. So when a family friend suggested that Marietta use talent from eastern Kentucky instead, he promptly set up a pilot office in Letcher County, just northeast of Harlan, and hired four recent high school graduates who had completed a media View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
that draws on sales systems, supply chain systems, and manufacturing and product data. A similar system for small businesses would combine at least four key activities: banking and payments, loans and...
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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
product that carried a lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance that teens would easily develop nicotine addictions from smoking the fruit-flavored products....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year...
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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
conquering Paris or New York. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/07/the-growth-opportunity-that-lies-next-door/ar/ Working PapersSelection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production...
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Sean Silverthorne