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11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more economically interconnected... View Details

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09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

being born globally—chasing opportunities created by distance, learning to manage faraway operations, and hunting for the planet's best manufacturing locations, brightest talent, most willing investors, and most profitable customers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

granted a U.S. patent for a "flying-machine," which changed the industry irrevocably. While American manufacturers diverted resources from science and technology to patent wars and legal disputes, European aeronautics advanced... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2006
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Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Relative Economic Failure since 1982," Maurer examines the trade agreement's impact on the Mexican economy. "In and of itself, NAFTA is pretty successful," he says. "It creates a big wave of foreign direct investment in Mexico, and its View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

enough to get better; you have to "get different" — for example, in the way that GE went from manufacturing to services or Charles Schwab went from bricks and mortar to online services. But what happens when we ask senior... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

and those with lack of access to education and transportation face after prison.” The manufacturer Owens Corning finally gave him a chance. At the same time, he set out to solve the problem his experience revealed. Blakeman spent weekends... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

manufacturing company, managers can stress the importance of speaking up in order to create the best product possible for customers. Model vulnerability. It’s powerful for employees to see bosses admit when they are wrong. As difficult as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

2022
Article

Reversible Power-to-Gas Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

In the transition to decarbonized energy systems, Power-to-Gas (PtG) processes have the potential to connect the existing markets for electricity and hydrogen. Specifically, reversible PtG systems can convert electricity to hydrogen at times of ample power supply, yet... View Details

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11 Jul 2005
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The New International Style of Management

very ecumenical, flexible, and open to new ideas and people. It learns from best practices in other countries, and it adapts accordingly. A prime example is America's absorption of Japanese manufacturing techniques in the 1980s."... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

2023
Working Paper

Toward Decision-Useful Carbon Information

By: Gunther Glenk

Companies are increasingly viewed as crucial drivers for timely decarbonization. Current accounting practices for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, however, often leave corporate carbon disclosures and abatement obscured. Here I introduce a taxonomy for assuring the... View Details

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10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

government blames the industrial sector, thus holding manufacturers responsible. The upcoming period of legislative meetings will tackle the new law on containers and packages. There are several proposals, and the last version I have... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product design important,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

Yi-Ling WeiHarvard Business School Case 610-005 Tony Lo, the CEO of Giant Manufacturing, the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, finally realized that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers when even his wife... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608151 Quanta Computer and the One Laptop Per Child Initiative Harvard Business School Case 608-102 When Quanta Computer, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of laptop... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2017
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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

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

Hawthorne Works manufacturing plant and the resulting insights, publications, course development, and impact. Brief biographical details of Mayo and Roethlisberger are given, along with a synopsis of the origins of academic research at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

presweetened cereals. The major ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal manufacturers, such as Kellogg's and General Mills, were supporters of the CBBB self-regulation programs and were invited to participate in the CBBB initiative. Each manufacturer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

billion in worldwide sales and had just been named the leading refrigerator manufacturer worldwide. Describes Haier's rise over three decades from a defunct refrigerator factory in China's Qingdao province to an international player with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, delivers customer benefits that are many times SML's manufacturing costs. Jonathan Lee and Alex Tan of SML's Engineered Products Division are responsible for formulating a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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