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- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
manufacturer FMC Corporation. Burt appreciates the gift planning options available to support the School. “The folks at HBS helped us think through a life-income gift that made a lot of sense for us while giving back to Harvard,” says... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
lean inventories and just in time deliveries, there is not a lot of slack in the system to act as a buffer. This disaster promises to be quite a test. Consider, for example, Shin-Etsu Handotai, one of the world's leading producers of the silicon wafers and ingots that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
not going to compete by building a car manufacturing supply chain, a telephony network or a big retail footprint. We are going to use that available infrastructure to our advantage. These startups are like fleas on the backs of dinosaurs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
many finish at half that number.” Simon, who earned a degree in engineering and worked in the manufacturing arm of a family business after his MBA, calls dry cleaning “the most challenging industry I have been involved in.” The full... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Promoting a Deeper Understanding
“Once you understand the environment each of us is coming from, it makes it a lot easier to communicate, which is what business is all about. Communication is key to solving problems,” says Bullard, chairman of E.D. Bullard Co., a family-owned View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
he was “a businessman who became a teacher,” spent nine years at General Electric and also worked at Corning Glass and Sperry Gyroscope before coming to HBS. An authority on manufacturing and planning, he served as unit head of Production... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
you are saving lives. So it has to have a humanitarian angle to it." (Cipla manufactures generic versions of a number of commonly prescribed medicines and is the world's largest manufacturer of the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
ER costs have dropped significantly. The Power Of Checklists Gawande also stressed the importance of implementing checklists in health care. (Gawande is the author of The Checklist Manifesto. Knowing that the manufacturing industry was... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
and has been operational now for just over a year. The Israeli side is contributing expertise, access to export markets, and design capabilities; the Jordanian side provides production management and manufacturing prowess. The venture... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
fixation of broken bones had been produced in Switzerland by a separate manufacturing company and distributed in the United States. Wyss undertook a vigorous change of direction, first building a View Details
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Ralph Johnson
in Chicago on a variety of projects. I worked on a youth mentoring program to combat violence. I was part of a team figuring out the best way to incentivize manufacturing companies to come to the city. What tax incentives would we need?... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
purpose into their core operations, generating powerful win-win decisions that benefit everyone, with little compromise—if any—required on any side. A manufacturing company might change wasteful processes, for instance, using less energy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
revolutionary orthopedic devices to market and changing the surgical approach to healing broken bones. After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1959, he worked for Chrysler Corporation, helping set up View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
Illustration by Shutterstock I've always loved boats. When I was just a few years old, my grandfather set me up in a small sailing dinghy and sent me on my way. I have no recollection of the instruction that must have come before, but the exhilaration that came from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry Wilson (MBA 1999), who had... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
that there is more to running an enterprise, small or large, than strategy. The revolution in quality control and manufacturing techniques that has taken place in the last fifteen years was data-driven and systems-driven and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
Creating Brand Value, Ofek and his co-authors look at the company’s evolution from toy manufacturer to IP franchise manager and the reinvigoration of the famous and famously fraught brand. It wasn’t just the considerable hype around the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
Zobel; (front row) Mixon, Wyss. After half-joking that his greatest accomplishment was getting his wife to marry “an Oklahoma cowboy,” Mal Mixon (MBA ’68) cited his successful purchase of Invacare, a manufacturer of in-home medical... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
in 2015, Sounouvou had recently launched Exportunity, a secure digital marketplace that connects African suppliers with buyers around the world. Through the company’s platform, farmers in Benin can sell their produce to a manufacturer in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
strategic and general management issues facing service organizations as well as the management of service in manufacturing companies. The multidisciplinary unit focuses on three functions critical to the effective delivery of service:... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young