manufacturing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2006
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Silver Lining

Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member of Enron’s international... View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

in Achievement in the “Transformational Infrastructure” category. They are committed to being the sustainability partner of choice for private users by helping customers meet 100% of their energy needs through renewable energy. Solar panels on the rooftop of CleanMax’s... View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners

is coordinating with Gilead Sciences, maker of Remdesivir, to distribute and manufacture the antiviral drug treatment for use in 127 countries, including Egypt. It was recently approved for emergency use by the United States, India,... View Details

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Bibliography - The Human Factor - – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Harvard Business School Press, 1987. General Electric Publicity, 1924: A Review of the Publicity Activities and Facilities for Promoting the Sale of G-E Products. Schenectady, N.Y.: Publicity Department, General Electric Company, 1924. Gillespie, Richard. View Details

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Career Journey | MBA

88% Class of 2024 who actively sought and accepted full-time roles after graduation. Industry Consulting 18% Consumer Products 3% Entertainment / Media 3% Financial Services 39% Health Care 6% Manufacturing 5% Nonprofit / Government 5%... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Five Degrees of Doriot

Baker Library Historical Collections In the fall, the Baker Library / Bloomberg Center debuted an exhibit tracing the life of Georges Doriot (MBA 1922), one of HBS’s most storied professors. Well known by students for his popular View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services

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

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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Photographs, ca. 1940 – 1960 From 1940 to 1960, U.S. Steel commissioned photographers to document their plants in more than forty locations across America for public relations purposes. Approximately 1,200 photographs in the collection illustrate raw materials, steel... View Details

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2004
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Steve Barger (MBA 1974)

what I’m doing today, but the culture at Northwest Cascade really suits me. We are a company that is focused on human waste. Among other things, we install septic systems and sewer lines, lease portable toilets, and manufacture and clean... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System

The Toyota Production System is a paradox. On the one hand, every activity, connection, and production flow in a Toyota factory is rigidly scripted. Yet at the same time, Toyota's operations are enormously flexible and responsive to customer demand. How can that be?... View Details

Keywords: by H. Kent Bowen & Steven Spear; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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General Management & Operations Club

Keywords: Manufacturing; Manufacturing

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

efficiency benefits of market transactions Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Leveraging Waste: Implications for Competition and Welfare (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We study the competitive and welfare implications when a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Kimble McCraw

manufacturing engineer. Much more than mere lectures Initially, Kimble wasn't convinced HBS was right for her. "My first thought," she says, "was that I'd go to a more tech-oriented business school." A campus visit... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Competencies and Credentials

educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)

nine associated firms specializing in the manufacture and repair of turbine engines for the aircraft and other industries. But in addition to his business career, Twaalfhoven has long carried the flag for the cause of entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Georges F. Doriot; John G. McLean; Alumni Achievement Award; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Oct 1998
News

Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

leave big business in 1970 to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity with SABO, a small manufacturer of lawn-mower machinery with a market value of some 6 million deutsche marks. "I was particularly interested in SABO because of its... View Details

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

general purpose (e.g., quality management) to highly market specific (e.g., knowing how to manufacture an airplane wing). To illustrate the potential of the framework to shed new light on traditional strategy questions, the article... View Details