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- November 1984
- Background Note
Note on the Major Home Appliance Industry--1984 (Condensed)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
Bower, Joseph L. "Note on the Major Home Appliance Industry--1984 (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Background Note 385-211, November 1984.
- 21 Feb 2020
- News
Style for Everyone
Nadia Boujarwah and Lydia Gilbert (both MBA 2013) cofounded Dia & Co right out of HBS, producing fashion and online services for plus-size women. In this interview, they talk about the inspiration for the idea and the need it serves. “Dia & Co derives from Dia, which... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
To Lincoln Vintner, It’s All About ‘Exceptional Care’
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
ConAgra CEO Gary Rodkin to Retire in May
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Burger Art
Talk about thinking outside the box! Since time immemorial, Americans have slapped and shaken ketchup bottles at their peril, hoping the red stuff would mostly wind up on their burgers and not in their laps. Well, that's all so yesterday, shoppers, thanks largely to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
HBS professors Ramon Casadesus‐Masanell, left, and Sunil Gupta, listened to a presentation about the layout of the Siemens Electronikwerk Amberg manufacturing facility during the faculty immersion in Munich. (photo by Willy C. Shih) The... View Details
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
mortgage application differently. Indeed, research shows just that: Corporate tax avoidance is not valued by the market unless the firms are well-governed. The actors in various corporate scandals, including Enron, Tyco, and Parmalat, were expert in exploiting the... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 22 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates
to assert their most attractive qualities to discriminating job seekers. At Samsung, the manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Korea, “Results speak for everything,” says Phoebe Hung (HBS MBA 2011), the company’s Senior Manager of... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
expertise in quality control and volume manufacturing in the automotive industry (where he does double duty as managing director of Sundaram Brake Linings), Mahesh launched Sundaram Medical Devices in 2010, won the NVC, and built a better... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
explained. "Our recent success in high-tech manufacturing on a worldwide basis is a natural outgrowth of that entrepreneurial spirit. If you can survive on the local level in Taiwan, you have a very good chance of making it in the global... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
Viking Mead—soon followed. "It's crazy and exciting," says Appling. Appling has been able to maintain work/life balance with his current job as president and CEO of Personal Communications Devices, a wireless accessories manufacturer and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
a nurse, took him on visits to local hos-pitals, where he sometimes observed surgeries. After leaving the military in 1997 and before coming to HBS, Sanchez worked as a manager of research and development at Stryker Leibinger, a health-care devices View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
door, the company was heading for bankruptcy. Instead of a three-month stint, Tisch stayed on for the next decade as Bulova's president. His strategy: buy components (and eventually whole watches) from suppliers, rather than manufacture... View Details
- Web
Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
sales office in Hubbard Woods, Illinois, including the retail showroom, freezer storage area, and equipment room. Exterior of Durgin Shoe Co. in Haverill, Mass., 1912 . Durgin Shoe Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts Mss: 641 1912 D959 1 album, 14 photographs Durgin Shoe... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
Your research examines industries that once seemed doomed but have experienced a comeback. How does this happen? I did my dissertation work on the Swiss watch industry, and I looked at what it takes for a technology to reemerge. For over two centuries, Swiss mechanical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916414-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-007 The Hain Celestial Group Hain Celestial manufactured natural and organic food and personal care products to be sold to retailers of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
reason that if a firm could afford to pay its CEO an eight-figure salary, it could also afford to manufacture higher-quality products than a firm that paid its CEO a six-figure salary? With that in mind, they conducted a study that... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
disposables and extended-wear lenses, and two involved new manufacturing processes. In a controversial but necessary move, he canceled dozens of small R&D initiatives for conventional lenses to free up cash for the breakthrough... View Details