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  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

a new luxury brand specializing in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure Chinese luxury brand. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Africa's Way

contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
  • 24 Jul 2013
  • Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

American steel producers began to lose out to foreign competition. In the Pittsburgh region, which is to steel what Detroit is to the automobile, primary metals employment dropped by three quarters in the... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Whillans, and Frances Chen Abstract—The transition to university is a major life change wherein young adults' primary support system shifts from the family to peers. Can social integration (operationalized as the number of friends) during... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind projects. “Most of these... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

Stick to the Strategy or Make the Sale? A Manufacturer of High-tech Streetlights Considers an Exception to Its New Subscription Model By: Weiss, Mitchell Abstract—A manufacturer of high-tech streetlights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

This Is What I Do

fluid along the surface at our site, which requires just a relatively small primary pump. SWAC is our only source of cooling — we have no conventional backup.” The SWAC system cost about $8 million, compared with a more conventional... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Apparel Manufacturing; Apparel Manufacturing; Apparel Manufacturing; Apparel Manufacturing; Apparel Manufacturing; Apparel Manufacturing; Apparel Manufacturing
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

WATER Ltd.

electric-power generation) require purified water that is treated to much higher standards than drinking water. He observes, “In North America and around the world, industrial customers are increasingly interested in how water quality affects the economics of their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 06 Sep 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

American Manufacturing Council, citing the president’s failure to condemn “hatred, bigotry and group supremacy.” Frazier's action triggered a mass exodus of other CEOs from two business advisory groups created by the president. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

assessment and development. The (A) case describes the firm's strategic position as the "manufacturer" of three primary product lines—annuities, insurance, and mutual funds—which they sell to banks, broker/dealers, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2019
  • News

City on a Hill

was obvious the first time he met Marietta. At the time, Falce, who had previously worked as a mine electrician, was doing shift work at a manufacturing plant several hours away. His wife, Megan, a teacher at Pine Mountain, pressed him... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

for a primary care visit, about 20% of revenues, up to $215 for an inpatient surgical procedure. The high costs were not caused by wasteful, inefficient processes, duplicate or redundant tasks, or the inappropriate use of high-wage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Harvard Business School's Intensive Seminar on Value-Based Health Care and Partner's HealthCare's Residents and Fellows course and is a member of the senior advisory board for InciteHealth at Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

designing and managing an operations organization. The best way to do something depends critically on the characteristics and capabilities of your organization and the competitive context in which it finds itself. That is, lean View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For businessmen, the View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

have been written, and 99 Chinese students have received MBAs from HBS. Nearly one in six HBS faculty members lists China as a primary research interest. China’s research potential is almost limitless. The country’s development over the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

914-014 Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (A) In April 2013, Ford Asia Pacific & Africa (FAPA) was examining its options for e-coating service metal parts for the Ford Customer Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

for six years in a row; but leadership saw CHOP as more than the large main campus in western Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1990s, CHOP had created a large network of Primary Care Providers, Specialty Care Centers, Ambulatory Surgery... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and change the mix of marketing promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

Performance of Indian Manufacturing By: Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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