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- 27 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way
generalizations on these macro-trends and think top-down, HBS classes like The Entrepreneurial Manager train us to think bottom-up. We learn how to test hypotheses quickly, and how to use new tools to solve old problems. 5. Skills are transferable.I came from the... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
confused about how the two can go together. Through sharing my experiences on the production floor, I have been able to educate my classmates on how engineering principles in manufacturing can be applied regardless of the product being... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
was carrying them came crashing back to Earth. “Space is hard. Launches are delayed and, in the worst case, things blow up,” Minnick says. But because the company controls the satellite manufacturing portion of its own supply chain, it... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
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Pan-American Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
representing business — including agriculture, logging, mining, petroleum, communications, banking, and manufacturing — in their respective countries. Researchers will find views of field laborers splitting cacao pods, scenes of busy... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
King of his castle
wedding chapel. About 71,000 guests attended the 17-day festival last year. Since selling his wireless accessories manufacturing and distribution company, Personal Communications Devices, Appling has been able to focus full time on his... View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
industry have framed two case studies. Does location make a difference in a globalized world? Can products just be manufactured anywhere? Porsche's Cayenne manufacturing brings the company full circle in a... View Details
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
The Theory of Moral Sentiments , collected works, and miscellaneous writings. Hancock Family Papers Papers, dated 1664-1854, containing business and personal correspondence, financial records, and legal papers of Thomas Hancock, John Hancock, and other relatives and... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper proposes an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPerformance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc. John B. Bingham and Michael BeerHarvard Business School Case 913-501 Vitality Health Enterprises, a medium-sized firm that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Ambelang treated NatureSweet more like a consumer-packaged goods manufacturer than an agricultural producer, with a focus on consistency, branding, margin, and price stability, and a frontline-worker-centric production model inspired by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
http://www.nber.org/papers/w11503 Synthesis by Microbes or Chemists? Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing in the Antibiotic Era Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication:History and Technology 23, no. 3 (2009): 237-256 Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reawakening rural America
7,000 jobs since its launch in 1986. “My primary business is recruiting manufacturing firms into rural communities and helping them create jobs,” Schultz says. After a three-year research project about rural economics that led to the book... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
Ernst & Young. Love was preparing an important bid for a large industrial manufacturer that needed help installing an enterprise resource planning system. He had already directed projects for implementing information systems for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rolling Thunder
HEAVY METAL: Stephen Julius and family aboard an Indian motorcycle, a classic brand that in late 2007 will once again hit the streets. PHOTO COURTESY STEPHEN JULIUS Vrrooom that’s the sound of the classic Indian brand motorcycle, revving up for a comeback. Founded in... View Details
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Craig Baker
Craig Baker grew up in southeastern Idaho, and he finds it perfectly fitting that his first career assignment after completing his undergraduate degree in business and information-systems management took him into the potato field. “Double L View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Building Sustainable Brands
role to ask her about what life has been like since HBS and what she is looking forward to most. Where are you working now? After HBS, I joined General Mills, one of the largest food manufacturers in the world, as an Associate Marketing... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
Manufacturing had good lessons on systems thinking and building a learning organization.” What advice do you have for current HBS students thinking about launching their own companies? “Find a great work partner, find a great life... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The art of thinking creatively
presence was the only thing missing at HBS when I went there,” says Schwartz, founder and CEO of Onex Corp., a Toronto-based private-equity and investment firm. “I wanted to change that.” Offices at Onex, which invests in everything from View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- News
A corporate leader’s legacy in India
in 2000, the Tata Group became the second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea in the world. Other notable acquisitions include Jaguar Land Rover and Corus, the second-largest steel maker in Europe. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details