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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
says. “And if the company wins, the employees win, and the shareholders win.” In fact, so many of those shareholders now work in the company’s manufacturing facilities, Zeitz observes, they have asked that a stock ticker be installed on the View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- News
China-based Fuyao Glass Considers Manufacturing in the U.S.
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Jersey, to New Orleans, Louisiana. One soloed in a single engine airplane on Long Island at the age of 14. Another toured Cleveland’s factories with her father at the height of the city’s industrial powers. That range of experiences... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Shamrock factory on Lake Erie. I also worked with her on Bonnie Bell, which is a cosmetics company, and a marketing plan for this new startup called Leggs, which did pantyhose. Then I worked for International Harvester doing tractor sales... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
corridor of Southwest Baltimore. Factories and warehouses supplied the city with everything from furniture to gelato, and people flocked to the strip’s shops, theaters, and saloons. Just to the south, a series of elegant row houses earned... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
joined venture capital firm 500 Global as partner in its newly opened offices in a renovated factory near Cairo University. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010, with $2.8 billion in assets under management, 500 Global had already invested... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
furniture business when a fire started in the factory’s ventilation system. The fire alarms were loud, and every instinct I had learned in school told me to leave the building, but the president of the company grabbed my arm and told me to follow him. We raced toward... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
Georges Viana surveyed a factory floor filled with silent, outdated machinery. Then, a quick, scuttling movement caught the corner of one eye: rats. He hadn’t known what to expect when he arrived in the city of Caen, 150 miles west of his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
visiting 100 factories before presciently fixing his sights on the growth potential in auto parts. In the early 1990s, China manufactured only about 600,000 vehicles a year, mostly trucks, and parts makers remained small and regional.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
will give you the money it now spends on buying your health insurance. You will be required to use the money to buy insurance for yourself. People like me who prefer HMOs could still buy them. Insurers will contract with the focused View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Lassiter, whose research focuses on developing carbon-neutral energy supplies, efforts to produce algal crude cheaply and efficiently have met with nothing but failure. The reason: basic biology. One can easily persuade algae to produce... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
major developments: Ericsson opened its first 5G-enabled smart factory in the United States, Apple unveiled its first 5G-enabled phone, and carriers like AT&T and Verizon have been preparing their customers for major transition. So has... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
it to people who previously had no understanding of what we did. The experience made me much more focused on our vision and the incredible importance of its communication.” Vera Makarov (MBA 2010) Co-CEO/COO of Apli, 2017 Alumni Track... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting his number of investments.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 2002
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Replicating Toyota's Success
the company has welcomed countless observers, even competitors, through its factory doors, but no one has yet approached Toyota's success. "The research we've done since 1999 is not so much about decoding the DNA as it is about... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
managing director of Food-X, the firm's accelerator program focused on the food industry. But now, as he considered his next decade, and the world as it looked to his 17-year-old daughter, he realized he needed to shift his focus. "It... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Work of Art
set of hands to help advance their own work. The fellows’ studios occupy the eastern expanse of the building, which has been teeming with art and activity since 2018, when Price and Kaphar transformed two dilapidated factory buildings in... View Details