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  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

captures the challenges Komatsu, the second largest manufacturer of earth-moving equipment, faced during the past five decades as it sought to globalize its operations. By 2007, it had become the second largest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 1989 (Revised May 1998)
  • Teaching Note

Collision Course in Commercial Aircraft: Boeing-Airbus-McDonnell Douglas--1991 (A) & New Theories of International Trade, Teaching Note

By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-391-106) and (9-390-001). View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation Industry; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Sustainable Fleet Operations: The Collaborative Adoption of Electric Vehicles

By: Vanessa Chocteau, David F. Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer, Renato J. Orsato and Alain Roset
Keywords: Fleet Management; Carbon Regulation; Sustainable Operations; Collaboration; Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Cooperation; Energy Sources; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; France
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  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

digital form, stored in this platform, and therefore ready to be transported in digital form. WK: Journeying from one business model to another is a formidable leadership challenge, especially in an industry so given to continual... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

http://www.nber.org/papers/w11503 Synthesis by Microbes or Chemists? Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing in the Antibiotic Era Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication:History and Technology 23, no. 3 (2009): 237-256 Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

poorer Latin American countries. Traditional exports—coal, coffee, oil—still comprised more than half the total, while manufactured exports comprised only a fifth. Public investment in transport and other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Richard Tedlow has written, "most manufacturers were unknown to the people who bought their products." 50 Heinz would not have used the words "brand creation" to describe his initiatives. This term is a product of the... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 07 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

coauthors on this paper was connected to the manufacturing sector of India. We studied how the GQ project affected the productivity of incumbent plants and the growth of new entrants. The GQ was very important for the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction
  • 12 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

and development, Jones says. California was another major player, offering wind firms fixed energy prices and guaranteed income streams for several years. These had the effect of luring major manufacturing companies from other industries... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

revisiting the issue of what the company should be. Becoming a successful solar cell manufacturer would potentially be much more lucrative than becoming a successful equipment supplier. But, the latter was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall's three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

one of the industry's leading firms. Oil sands deposits in Alberta represent a potentially vast reserve of hydrocarbons, but the extraction, refining, and transportation challenges are formidable, and the environmental consequences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

IBM was concentrating on developing the System 360, Kenneth Olsen's Digital Equipment Corporation created a second path of computer learning by commercializing an inexpensive, stripped-down "minicomputer" for more specialized... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

is to middle managers, who may become obsolete when layers of managers are no longer needed to convey messages up and down the organization. The key to success in the social networking era is to empower the people who do the actual work—designing products, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

other? Chandler: Having invented color television in the 1950s but then fallen behind Japanese manufacturers in the following decade, RCA decided it had to move into something else. In 1967, it settled on computers, a product the company... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

a recent setback, Boeing lashed together the efforts of 50 partners in 130 locations working together over 4 years. These firms aren't just manufacturing partners—they actually design the components they make. "In our view, Boeing's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

relative viability, even if one focuses just on prices, is the pass-through of a higher price realization to the global producer after typically higher transportation and distribution costs, tariffs, or even risks, are netted out.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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