Manufacturing Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2017
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The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

coworkers, Eckert says. Created for small businesses rather than the automotive industry—which makes up 70 percent of the US industrial robot market—Rethink’s bots do the boring, monotonous stuff. Humans get more interesting jobs: the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future

direct-investment manufacturing projects in US history, for a total of more than $62 billion in private-sector capital investment. Several years later, the chance to do similar work in Virginia—a place with very different... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Dec 1999
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Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline

remember that equally hot industries have cooled with time. Once there were some two thousand companies manufacturing trucks and cars in America, Buffett said, but today "only three have finished the race."... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Emerging Information

firms - ISI Emerging Markets integrates an impressive database of news, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, and macroeconomic statistics that appear on the Web in both English and the information's original language.... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

Board (EDB), amazed the audience when he described how his country is building massive industrial townships in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. "If [building infrastructure] were a gold mine, I would not be here; if it was not a nightmare... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

itself from a competitive perspective to continue its growth and stand out from the other industry players?" The Answers: "I would suggest looking at the business model and trying to extend the brand by extending the offering. Cellphones... View Details

Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Telecommunications; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Retail Trade

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

for women to think more about their marriage prospects than their business future. Nevertheless, Haberkorn walked into the Baltimore employment office of the AT&T-owned Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland and landed a job in the telecommunications View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai

10 percent of GDP, per capita GDP is just shy of $500, and it has slightly more than one billion people. It is a relatively closed economy without a great deal of foreign investment. Today, the globalization imperative is driving Western View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Dec 2002
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Thinking Inside the Box

Back in 1988, Paul (MBA '84) and Peter Centenari (27th OPM), brothers who coowned a small Colorado investment bank, had grown tired of moving from deal to deal. They wanted to get back to the basics: running a low-tech manufacturing... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes

Smoking Gun When impressionable teenagers light their first cigarettes, they initiate what all too often becomes a lifelong, life-threatening habit. The vast majority of smokers begin in their teens, yet the tobacco industry has... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

greatest success factor: disciplined leadership. The authors relate the stories of executives who have successfully broken through the barriers of growth to identify what they all have in common. They supplement these findings with decades of View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Desert Dust-Up

claims. “We are,” he declared, “living with an energy illusion of the highest order.” Simmons, who is writing a book on the subject and has spent the last two years researching Saudi technical data, has also called for more transparency from the petroleum View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing

05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio

demonstrated its unique value proposition in the large electronic b-to-b payments space with significant market traction and consistent year-over-year growth. Organizations across many industries are using NVoicePay to significantly... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference

morning paper, a history lesson, or a conflict in the classroom," recalls Slifka. At HBS, he notes, General Georges F. Doriot's manufacturing course also had a powerful impact. "He taught us to be innovative, to be courageous, and to... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

18 Apr 2015
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Women in Business Q&A: Umaimah Mendhro, Founder & CEO, VIDA

Keywords: mindfulness; Dreamfly; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

it hit me right there.” That moment, the moment Wilcox fell in love, was the starting point for a wild ride called E Ink, which manufactures the electronic “paper” used in e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle, cell phones, and graphic displays... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart

Our experience shows, however, that if that sector is provided breathing room for a period of time and is well managed, it can recover and become strong." Stewart cites his firm's representation of companies or workers in four industries... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Jul 2021
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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

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up call to an View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

about the up-and-coming general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America. “I was interested in the entertainment industry and globalization,” Hill recalls. “The article was about the business, not how she led.” So how did “Taran Swan at... View Details

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