Manufacturing Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

crisis hit the Western markets. The use of project finance has grown at a compound rate of 0% over the last five years, 4% over the past 10 years, and 12% over the past 15 years. This note focuses primarily on private sector investment in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

work. Business historian Harold Livesay writes that Land "advocated a belief in the harmony and symbiosis among work, virtue, profit, beauty, technology, and progress." 32 Addressing the future of industrial research in 1944, Land... View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

and complex amino acids.) 683 alumni work in the agriculture industry 1957 HBS professors Ray Goldberg (MBA 1950) and John H. Davis (MBA 1941) coin the term agribusiness 236 alumni work in the food and beverage View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207077 Framedia Harvard Business School Case 207-057 Examines an acquisition in the highly competitive new media advertising industry in China in late 2005. The transaction... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2008
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Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

Summing Up The depth of the global financial crisis is becoming clearer day by day. In the United States, it is being used as a reason to set aside ideology regarding government ownership of important financial institutions, possibly including those that also View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. During my time there I learned about the power of an organization to develop technology and execute business strategy to bring positive change in the world. Coming off that... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

companies in the national economy), Italy is the second largest manufacturer and the second largest European exporter. Students will learn how Italy’s companies – that include some iconic brands that leverage the powerful “Made in Italy”... View Details

30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

customer service—to build his business. Covers the first 50 years of American Airlines' history, beginning with its role as an industry consolidator in the late 1920s. Smith's strategic and operational choices in building American... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

employees to tell them that all efforts of the company would now be directed toward the war effort. Polaroid's new facility in Cambridge was located in the industrial area of Kendall Square with affordable rents and neighbors that... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

as the "crown prince of a Swiss industrial dynasty," Ernesto Bertarelli took over as CEO of his father's company, the Ares-Serono Group, right after graduating from HBS. It was a natural progression: his father, Fabio Bertarelli, had... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

who can really afford credits [to offset emissions] are funds like Frontier and the Microsofts of the world—organizations that want to encourage growth and development. But costs will naturally come down over time, the way most industrial... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

Working PapersIndustry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms Authors:Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde Abstract We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2024
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Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

about plans by Industrial Plastics Canada to open a new plant in nearby North Bay, Ontario. Yes, the new plant would generate 35 jobs, but the CBC report said “the company will transform a polymer called polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE),... View Details

October 1981 (Revised April 1984)
Case

H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (B)

Summarizes the investigation conducted by outside legal and accounting firms under the Heinz audit committee. Improper practices were found at three of the five Heinz domestic divisions and at a number of foreign operations. Presents restated financial data for the... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Accounting Audits; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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December 2020 (Revised March 2025)
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Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A): Designing a Turnaround

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Nancy Boghossian Staples

Facing a significant decline in revenues in 2016, David Gwilliam, Head of Transformation at PepsiCo UK introduced a new way of working (“Responsive Working”), which encompasses a set of work practices and some new team structures. The work practices comprise a set of 9... View Details

Keywords: SLAM Teams; Turnaround; Groups and Teams; Employees; Training; Decision Making; Planning; Performance Improvement; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom; Europe

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Airbus vs. Boeing (H): Wing Cracks and Battery Fires (2013)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman

This case describes an issue with the batteries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner planes overheating and sometimes catching fire in 2013. The planes were grounded for several months until Boeing introduced new safety measures. The case also discusses a problem with cracks on... View Details