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- July 1979
- Supplement
Dallas Tire Corp. (B)
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
Cash, James I., Jr. "Dallas Tire Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 180-007, July 1979.
- November 1988 (Revised May 1998)
- Teaching Note
Searching for Trade Remedies: The U.S. Machine Tool Industry--1983 & United States Trade Law, Teaching Note
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-388-071) and (9-387-137). View Details
- October 1984
- Supplement
Southern Packaging (B)
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Southern Packaging (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 385-180, October 1984.
- 19 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition
According to the World Economic Forum, climate change and insufficient investing are two of the top ten global challenges we currently face. Although there have been many recent technological advances in the energy sector, energy-related CO2 emissions increased... View Details
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
become the biggest TV manufacturer in the world (by volume, even if not by revenue) in 2004, just twelve years after TCL entered the TV business in mainland China. Tata Steel is acquiring from a position of strength amidst a boom in the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Setting the Standard for Commercial Success As chairman of Esquel Group, Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) oversees one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Esquel employs... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
thought it would allow me to have a direct impact for a while.” The interesting business model that attracted Gibbons to NIB was also the organization’s weak point only a few years earlier. As a nonprofit organization established by the federal government to provide... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School
manufacturing floor and in the sale of innovative products and services; and in the stimulating worlds of media, sports, and technology. As academics and business professionals, they have mentored, nurtured, and educated the next... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
but that makes firms vulnerable to innovative upstarts over the long haul. Would this trend also hold true for companies engaging in business processs innovation? McElheran wondered—a question not much studied by researchers. To find out, she drew on 1999 US Census... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
for the survey included primarily middle managers in manufacturing plants, although over time the data collection was extended to other industries, such as retail, schools, and hospitals. The approach was to interview those who were high... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections reduce employment flows and firm entry rates.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
learned details of how Novo Nordisk manufactures within its 1,200,000 square meter facility high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that tackle not only diabetes but also hemophilia, growth disorders, and obesity. At their... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and consumer products, there are... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507005 Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola and Nigeria's Manufacturing Sector Harvard Business School Case 407-027 Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola was an important contributor to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Desert Dust-Up
Simmons Photo Courtesy Simmons & Co. INTL. Oil and water don’t mix. That truism about elements at odds could also serve as an analogy for Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67), who’s sometimes known as a petroleum-industry contrarian. But it’s the hard science behind the old... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
Sleepyheads, Beware: An alarm clock that doesn’t mess around. Photo courtesy Nanda Home Related Links Watch Nanda explain Clocky See Tocky, the newest product Purchase the original Clocky case Purchase the "Life After Clocky" case In the spring of 2005, media outlets... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Health Care Club: Summer Spotlight
finance, commercial, who each weigh in with their evaluation of an asset. But subject matter experts from clinical, regulatory, quality, legal, manufacturing - you name it - also all assess the effects of a deal on their part of the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care