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  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

during the MBA program. Giovanni Estrella (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? Jacksonville, Florida. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I was a Senior Quality Engineer for the largest vertically View Details
  • 17 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

MiCampo - Marcus Stromeyer (MBA 2024), Julian Saavedra - MiCampo is an AI-powered ranch management solution for Latin America. NEAT: Niger Meat - Sharif Nami (MBA 2024), Mouin Chreif (MBA 2024), Ali Akhdar - First export oriented abattoir in Niger, a View Details
  • 14 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

the strong hardware and manufacturing bias and hierarchical structures of Japan's computer and electronics firms is largely responsible for the virtual non-existence of a standalone software sector. Second, even when the vertical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

quite high at the time, thus providing a justification for the vertical integration of large organizations) set limits on behaviors that we refer to today as partnering, the forming of alliances, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment

remote support to ensure smooth operation. Their focus on quality and attention to detail sets them apart from the cheaper alkaline alternative. Additionally, the team prioritizes vertical integration as a... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2024
  • Blog Post

Exploring California’s Climate Frontier: E&E Club’s Bay Area Trek

invaluable insights and connections with experts shaping the future of this critical space. The journey began with a visit to Tesla’s Fremont manufacturing plant, where the automation and scale of electric vehicle production became strikingly clear. Tesla’s unique... View Details
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

virtues of vertical integration with the flexibility of sourcing. Such arrangements are increasingly discussed in the operations literature and in practice. This case provides students an opportunity to do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

expand its role as a parts supplier into a discerning acquirer of distressed companies in the U.S. While it saw acquisition as an exciting means for growth, company strategy at its Hangzhou, China headquarters also included vertical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Miguel (MBA 1997) and Mariana Cal. Molino Cañuelas is a vertically integrated food business where management encourages innovation and growth. As the company continues to expand, the case explores whether it... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

mass customization. In the midst of all this added complexity, he said, the large, vertically integrated organization, involved with everything from Research and Development to customer delivery, is passing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

and responding to adverse drug reactions suggests that only government regulators are in a position to integrate case report and statistical analysis. Despite the appeal of fragmented post-market drug safety studies, centralization may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs between rich countries. The share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries which provide inputs to their parent firms) is larger than commonly thought, even... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

Abstract—What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper shows that prices can affect integration.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Tools | New Venture Competition

a copy of the FOCUS Foods business plan, please email julia@focusfoodsinc.com . Tomato Jos 2014 Runner-Up Vertically integrated tomato processing company. Executive Summary (pdf) Presentation (pdf) Business... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A) Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

with mangrove conservation expert Hemant Karkhanis. Joshi provided an overview to the Godrej Group, its ESG strategy, and its mangrove conservation and restoration initiatives. Godrej Group, an international business conglomerate with business View Details
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

Industry By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne