Manufacturing Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

mechanical watchmaking industry had rematerialized to become the world’s leading exporter (in monetary value) of watches. This study reveals the process and mechanisms associated with technology reemergence, i.e., the resurgence of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would have predicted the success of the path it has taken. For two decades now, Samsung has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

of the factors that drive success in an industry that attracts 65 percent of MBA graduates from leading business schools — many of whom eventually leave to run organizations of their own. With revenues approaching a trillion dollars,... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

century-old match industry when he took the helm of Diamond Match Company in 1914. Fairburn designed a manufacturing process using sesquisulphate to produce matches rather than white phosphorus, which had... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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 metal stamping business and... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock

assumed after World War II that we’d never have thermonuclear war. What do people in the oil industry think about your book? I’ve heard criticism that it’s preposterous we have any problems. We’ve been doing this for 70 years, and we’ll... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

finalize a deal, but that's often not enough. Many countries have webs of influence that are more powerful than the actual parties making the deal, even though those webs don't have the formal standing of, say, government agencies. In Japan, it may be the keiretsu—... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors

is that the sector should be treated as a priority to abate sector by the government given its contribution to total emission levels. However, they mentioned that, to achieve net zero, it would require them and the sector to revisit their View Details

01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

as Northern firms shift production to Southern affiliates. This FDI accelerates Southern industrial development. The South's share of global manufacturing and the pace at which production of recently... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Student-Profile

Sarah Wolfolds

When I was a senior in college, I planned to attend a PhD program in Economics to study industrial organization and potentially labor economics. I had always been interested in Economics and was intrigued by the influence of the... View Details

06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

Industries - 2006 (TN) Harvard Business School Note 207-097 No abstract available. The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (D) Harvard Business School Supplement 207-087 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us inside this corporation, which from its origins in Britain and the Netherlands has become a worldwide View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell research, the question seemingly... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

operations, remotely disinfecting public buildings and hospitals. "The White Knight drones were in R&D for the last two years; we developed and manufactured them in the last two months in readiness to execute aerial delivery of emergency... View Details

14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

Working PapersThe Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne