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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
A. Reynolds Morse (MBA 1939), founder of Ohio-based Injection Molders Supply Company and a longtime friend of artist Salvador Dalí, died last August in Florida. He was, the St. Petersburg Times (August 22, 2000) reported, "a political conservative who developed a... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
and innovation tend to be used interchangeably, but when it comes to novel ideas in business, they are not necessarily the same thing. "Creativity and innovation are different stages in the same process," says Professor Teresa M. Amabile. "Creativity is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks of tasks. Transactions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
long-term study. Now owned by Mannesmann, the factory itself still manufactures large-diameter pipes today. Before the 1920s, German firms were often messier, more haphazard, less decentralized than many American corporations. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
— through quality of design, materials, and manufacture — is another key component of the luxury goods equation. “If someone puts a $100 towel in front of you, is it obvious what makes it a $100 towel? The View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710450-PDF-ENG Shanzhai! MediaTek and the 'White Box' Handset Market Willy Shih, Chen-Fu Chien, and Jyun-Cheng WangHarvard Business School Case 610-081 The term "white box" is often used to describe View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in manufacturing plants where it had implemented teaming, which was designed to move decision making as close to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
and those with lack of access to education and transportation face after prison.” The manufacturer Owens Corning finally gave him a chance. At the same time, he set out to solve the problem his experience revealed. Blakeman spent weekends... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
well-defined financial criteria. We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
growing concern that such regulation may simply shift production to unregulated regions, potentially increasing overall carbon emissions in the process. Carbon tariffs have emerged as a possible mechanism to address this concern by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
product is being put together, it has been possible for manufacturers to leave those identification markers in the product. So later on when the same customer calls with an inquiry or a complaint, it is now... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
long-standing tradition of being one of the state’s few Democratic pockets outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with a history of labor unrest and unionization dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. That energy carried workers along for decades, until iron... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 25
Factory" (HBR May-June 1974), Wickham Skinner proposed that manufacturers whose product lines had proliferated create specialized units, each dedicated to a distinct task. To make this economically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass marketing in the American food... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
were made with oil and industrial egg product “so pale you could hardly tell the yolk from the white,” says Viana. The factory manufactured madeleines for generic store brands—the View Details