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  • February 1991 (Revised November 1993)
  • Supplement

Investment Analysis and Lockheed Tri Star

A set of five exercises in capital budgeting. Student calculates and compares various decision criteria (including IRR and NPV) for capital investment projects. This is an introductory case, where relevant cash flows are provided, and the focus is on the discounting... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • October 2019
  • Supplement

Airbus vs. Boeing (J): New Plane Developments (2016)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes Airbus and Boeing developments in 2016, including Airbus' delivery of the first A320neo (new engine option) and Boeing’s work on the 737 MAX and 777X programs. It also notes Airbus’ restructuring in 2016. View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Air Transportation; Projects; Competition; Restructuring; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Europe
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  • October 2019
  • Supplement

Airbus vs. Boeing (I): Airbus Introduces the A350 (2015)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes the introduction of Airbus’ A350XWB (Xtra Wide Body) in 2015. It also describes Airbus and Boeing’s current endeavors in 2015, including Airbus’ development of the A330neo (new engine option) , Boeing’s work on the 737 MAX, and Boeing’s announcement... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Air Transportation; Projects; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Europe
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  • September 2017 (Revised March 2023)
  • Background Note

Production Processes

By: Willy Shih and Michael W. Toffel
This note describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each process type. It then delves more deeply into work flow policies, materials... View Details
Keywords: Production Management; Production Planning; Production Scheduling; Process Analysis; Process Maps; Processing Times; Process Improvement; Production; Management; Product; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • October 1992
  • Supplement

Eastman Kodak Co.: Perspectives on Outsourcing

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Perspective; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • March 1991 (Revised February 1992)
  • Teaching Note

IBM Corp: ""Make It Your Business"" (A) and (B), Teaching Note

By: Robert L. Simons
Teaching Note for (9-190-137) and (9-190-138). View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
  • Case

Herman Miller (A): Innovation by Design

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
Gary Van Spronsen, president of Miller SQA, has been asked to leave the thriving subsidiary he helped to reinvent to join Herman Miller's corporate initiative on innovation. Miller SQA has pioneered processes new to the Herman Miller organization, such as... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Organizations; Values and Beliefs; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • August 1984
  • Background Note

Note on the Major Home Appliance Industry--1984

By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

perspectives of marketing strategies, store operations, and relationships between customers and store clerks. However, the significance of the development of cellophane as a new packaging material, and the role of packaging manufacturers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Golden State of Mind

commit to any single venture. “In my heart, I knew that I had to spread myself around a little bit more,” he recalls. The venture capital industry made that possible. In those first few years, he bummed an office from Technology Venture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

officials, and food companies. In an increasingly industrializing and urbanizing society, such information translated into consumer decisions that had both economic and cultural antecedents and consequences. Even before the growth in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

because they were built with proprietary components, a manifestation of Xerox's approach to systems design. The development costs of these proprietary components had to be borne by the low unit volumes of its printers, in contrast to View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 28 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

guarantees and other proven tools at the state and federal levels to get capital into the hands of small businesses and entrepreneurs, where market gaps exist. One example would be to meet the capital scale-up needs of new advanced View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Up Against The Firewall

used software to launch their attacks. “Under the press of business and getting a product to market, some commercial software manufacturers have indulged in a ‘good–enough’ standard,” says Langstaff. “They reason that they can always fix... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

have a strong network of industry partners that can serve as a sounding board and even as potential customers," Tecco says during an interview at Rock Health's Chinatown offices. (With full-time staff projected to grow from 7 to 12... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical device industry over a 22-year... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

Firm in a Nascent Industry By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper explores how entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate a firm and a nascent industry affect the internal development of the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

was one of the first venture capitalists to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. She co-founded Construct to expand this focus and pursue the next generation of massive companies to be built in... View Details