Engineering Manufacturing - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

from those that have been traditionally employed in export-driven growth strategies? Competitiveness strategies are broadly based, recognizing the need to upgrade performance across the entire economy, not just the export-oriented sectors. Export-oriented sectors are... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

“Larger companies are rarely seen as fountains of innovation,” says Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano. Yet scale, if properly exploited, can still be an engine for transformation. In his new book Creative Construction: The DNA... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Boston Society of Civil Engineers for the book, MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015). William C. Kirby : Awarded an Honorary Professorship by Tsinghua University in 2016. Peter Tufano :... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he purchased Beatty Brothers, a... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

matched in ambition by its goals, which include nothing less than creating an economic growth engine that can support the world’s youngest and fastest-growing continental population, says Mark Tatum (MBA 1998), the NBA’s deputy... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

and not always at the forefront of sustainability practices. “It can take a while to improve these processes, and I think the industry is moving in that direction. But, during the 1960s and 70s, the palm oil cluster was a huge engine of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

ensuing ecological risks and costs. We then discuss how an operations management lens contributes to the issue and criteria to help the Sustainable Operations Management perspective endure. This article relates to a presentation delivered by Morris Cohen for Paul's... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Harvard Business School

Outstanding Professor Award for the Executive Program 26 times and the MBA Lawrence Levengood Outstanding Professor of the Year award twice. Before joining the Kellogg faculty, he owned and operated two manufacturing firms and one retail... View Details

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

manufacturing and engineering firm, before pursuing a full-time career in academia.) That all takes time, of course, but Toffel argues that it’s time well spent. “Given the substantial time we already invest... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

Industry: Oil & Gas / Reservoir Engineer Proudest Accomplishment: Starting at HBS the same week my daughter started Kindergarten Summer Internship: Biotech - FORMA Therapeutics How do you do it? Three things keep me sane: time... View Details

Anu Aga

Keywords: Engineering Manufacturing

01 Dec 2009
News

Losing Our Competitive Edge

not just suppliers of advanced materials, production equipment, and components, but also R&D know-how, advanced process development and engineering skills, and manufacturing competencies. Making matters even... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2011
News

Where the Jobs Are

developing nations as an engine for job creation back home (see article). Innovation is also the ticket to survival for smaller manufacturers, reports Senior Associate Editor Garry Emmons, who talked with the proprietors of family-owned... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

17 Dec 2015
News

Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory

the next phase of his career. “I see business playing an increasingly important role in the aerospace industry, going beyond just having the engineering know-how to build a spacecraft. In the past, spacecraft were primarily built and... View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Machinery Manufacturing

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

their start-up pitches to a panel of judges in late April. To his surprise, Mahesh, representing the HBS Club of India, took top honors and was awarded a $25,000 cash prize for his plan to manufacture low-cost medical beds for Indian... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing