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  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn

manufacturing workers on a computer system used for data reconciliation. The assignment proved challenging. “I was a total outsider running a class designed to change the work patterns of an experienced View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium

Professor Dani Rodrik and Professor Debora Spar discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Global Economy and Globalization, as a whole. COVID-19: What We Learned in China View Video Flex CEO, Revathi Advaithi, and Professor Willy Shih discuss the company’s... View Details

    William Durant

    Beginning his career as a carriage and wagon manufacturer, Durant made the switch to automobile manufacturing in 1904 by reorganizing a failing Buick Motors. He believed that the key to success in the automobile industry was creating an... View Details
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

      Walter R. Young, Jr.

      allowing the company to make some strategic acquisitions, and this growth has continued throughout Young’s term. By 1996, Champion was the number two company in both the mid-size motor coach and manufactured housing industries. View Details
      Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

        William M. Wood

        world’s largest carded woolen plant and the world’s largest worsted manufacturing plant. Wood maintained the firm’s leadership in the textile industry and shepherded it through a difficult labor relations period in the early 1910’s. View Details
        Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

          Abe Plough

          In 1908, with $125 borrowed from his father, Plough formed Plough, Incorporated by selling Antiseptic Heating Oil door to door. Over the next 65 years, Plough transformed his company from a small manufacturer of toiletries to a... View Details
          Keywords: Healthcare
          • 24 Oct 2024
          • Blog Post

          Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)

          executives decide which divisions to sell and which companies to buy. Coming from a manufacturing background, I was more focused on enhancing manufacturing efficiency, modernizing operations, and expanding... View Details

            Elisabeth Claiborne

            Founded in 1976, Liz Claiborne joined the Fortune 500 list of the largest industrial companies only a decade later, one of the youngest companies ever to achieve this mark. In 1987, Liz Claiborne had sales in excess of $1 billion. All this success was a result of... View Details
            Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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            Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

            Harvard Business School, including an extensive collection of student reports from the Manufacturing course. This collection also contains documents from Doriot's involvement with American Research and Development (ARD), including his... View Details
            • 31 Jul 2020
            • Blog Post

            Building a DTC Brand Through COVID

            search results came up short. I wondered who else I would ask for manufacturing help and soon enough I realized I had a manufacturing expert at my hands, my TOM (Technology and Operations) Professor Willy... View Details

              Charles W. Nash

              Not wanting to compete with the "Big Three" auto makers in the 1920s, Nash carved out a unique niche for well-designed luxury automobiles at medium prices. This strategy was very successful for Nash Motors as it became one of the few, profitable independent... View Details
              Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

                Ohio C. Barber

                Barber’s own match manufacturing company consolidated with three other firms in 1881 to form the Diamond Match Company, controlling about 85% of the trade in the industry. Diamond Match produced the first modern automatic match machine.... View Details
                Keywords: Fabricated Goods

                  Naomi Sims

                  After as short, distinguished career in modeling, Sims decided to pursue her real dreams of being an entrepreneur. An outgrowth of her modeling experiences, Naomi devoted her efforts to manufacturing “realistic” wigs for black women.... View Details
                  Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
                  • 01 Jul 2021
                  • Office Hours

                  Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?

                  The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated workforce shifts that had been gaining momentum before the public health crisis, thrusting employers and workers into a new era within months. Joseph Fuller, a professor at Harvard Business School and co-leader of the School’s Managing... View Details
                  Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
                  • March 1983 (Revised January 1999)
                  • Teaching Note

                  Corning Glass Works International (A), (B1), (B2), (C1), and (C2), Teaching Note

                  By: Christopher A. Bartlett
                  Teaching Note for (9-381-160--164). View Details
                  Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
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                  Bartlett, Christopher A. "Corning Glass Works International (A), (B1), (B2), (C1), and (C2), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 383-150, March 1983. (Revised January 1999.)
                  • November 1982 (Revised May 1984)
                  • Case

                  Jim Sawyer (A)

                  Jim Sawyer, 40, a manager at United Industries Plastics Division has exhibited signs of alcoholism. Personnel must now consider how the company should address this kind of problem. Provides an opportunity to examine the role corporations should play in helping... View Details
                  Keywords: Ethics; Health; Employees; Manufacturing Industry
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                  Goodpaster, Kenneth E., and Dekkers L. Davidson. "Jim Sawyer (A)." Harvard Business School Case 383-029, November 1982. (Revised May 1984.)
                  • January 1980
                  • Supplement

                  General Electric vs. Westinghouse in Large Turbine Generators (C)

                  By: Michael E. Porter
                  Supplements the (A) case. View Details
                  Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; United States
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                  Porter, Michael E. "General Electric vs. Westinghouse in Large Turbine Generators (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 380-130, January 1980.
                  • August 1996 (Revised June 2007)
                  • Case

                  Nicholson File Company Takeover (A), The

                  By: Thomas R. Piper
                  The financial vice president must decide the value and form of an acquisition offer to be made to a small hand tool company. View Details
                  Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Valuation; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry
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                  Piper, Thomas R. "Nicholson File Company Takeover (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 297-011, August 1996. (Revised June 2007.)
                  • October 1992 (Revised September 1993)
                  • Case

                  Moser Glassworks

                  By: William A. Sahlman
                  Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
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                  Sahlman, William A. "Moser Glassworks." Harvard Business School Case 293-073, October 1992. (Revised September 1993.)
                  • May 1989
                  • Teaching Note

                  MRC, Inc. (Consolidated), Teaching Note

                  By: Robert S. Kaplan
                  Teaching Note for (9-277-123). View Details
                  Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
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                  Kaplan, Robert S. "MRC, Inc. (Consolidated), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 289-055, May 1989.
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