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- 01 Oct 2002
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Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:...
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- 10 Nov 2020
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Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag (MBA 1968) was the president of Unison Industries, an aviation component manufacturer he had grown from one Midwest factory into a 1,500-employee international business. He...
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April White
- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,...
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Alika Phipps
applying her marketing skills to her postgraduate ambition: to return to Haiti and help her family rebuild its businesses. “Our factory collapsed in the earthquake,” she explains. “Fortunately, no one was in the building at the time and...
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Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment...
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- 26 May 2016
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Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
serve his country, but his father, a factory worker, convinced him to go to college instead. When he graduated from the University of California, Davis, he intended to keep his job as a city bus driver, but through a friend’s father, he...
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Susan Young
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Brendan Mosher
Defense (DOD) fellowship to Stanford. There, he concentrated on engineering design and worked on energy reduction optimization for a Nissan factory in Tennessee, as well as an innovative consumer technology...
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- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
scarcity encourages us to buy sooner and perhaps to buy more than normal. We saw two excellent examples of this effect this summer with the launches of the iPhone and the seventh Harry Potter book. In both cases, the pre-launch publicity was View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
Susan Strasser contends. “They examined each other’s successes and failures and, in consort with an emerging advertising profession, began to articulate principles and design marketing programs.” 43 With so many similar goods flooding the...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
Anthony L. Chirchirillo Leveraging China to Achieve Global Advantage for a U.S. Factory Chirchirillo: From Wisconsin base to global competitor. Related Links The Path to Economic Revival James McNerney Jr. Manufacturing's New Reality (HBS...
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- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
dollars in value, Kominers and his co-authors reported in Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply in the March 12 issue of Science. “The value of being able to produce vaccines at scale the minute they clear trials is...
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- 30 Oct 2018
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Paths of Victory
based in Montreal, allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online through a free, web-based CAD program loaded with hundreds of designs for industrial parts that are then created via 3D...
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
a team of editors, writers, and designers. The assignment, selection, and placement of images in a range of media from corporate publications to traveling exhibitions were designed to build relationships with many public audiences...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
to try to improve the livelihood of every member of the company." When you go into a store looking for a stylish, well-made shirt, the designer brands jump out at you-names like Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ralph Lauren. So do the...
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- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
in Large Markets By: Kojima, Fuhito, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract—Accommodating couples has been a long-standing issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his earnings from working nights in a...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2384068 Sharing Design Rights:...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
a factory in a low-cost location in Asia? Such a move over the next five to seven years would be full of risk, especially considering LEGO has had a checkered history of expansion—one such effort almost led to bankruptcy. So Harvard...
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- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Public Sector seminar series, which runs through May, is designed to induce lively conversation, build a community of scholars, and create a research agenda exploring the possible role of the private sector in shaping the institutions of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the public.” 53 U.S. Steel commissioned the prominent German graphic artist M. Peter Piening to design the volume. 54 The corporation would have been familiar with the Bauhaus artist’s work with major advertisers, as art director for Life...
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