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- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
20,000 MW of wind energy, representing a $37 billion investment in 2007. Besides high prices, wind energy represented a solution for consumers seeking an energy source that would not add to the problems associated with global climate change. Suzlon Energy Limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806201 Vignette: Bombay Tyre Manufacturing Ltd Harvard Business School Case 806-207 Presents a U.S.-based investor who had taken a minority position in a publicly owned View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Semper Fidelis
In April, Tim Day (MBA 1964), chairman and CEO of Bar-S Foods, a processed-meats producer in Phoenix, Arizona, pledged $12 million in support of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. Day’s most recent gift, one of several major commitments,... View Details
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
are lots of different markets that require different strategies and investments. Our supply chain is complex. Most of our manufacturing happens in China, so the basic manufacturing piece—assembling millions... View Details
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Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades | Working Knowledge
Regulation and Compliance Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades Featuring William R. Kerr . By Rachel Layne on February 12, 2025 . New housing lags behind the speedy growth achieved by other parts of the economy. William Kerr explains why. Productivity and... View Details
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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
photographs A Basic Demonstration A demonstration of polarizing discs Annual Christmas Message to Employees of Polaroid Corporation, 1946 At the annual staff Christmas party in 1946, Edwin Land laid out his vision for the Polaroid Corporation as a science-based... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
building global distribution. He renamed the entire operation Intalite. “Within a month, I was on an airplane to Germany and Denmark setting up distribution,” he remembers. “American manufacturers of specialized ceilings were so insular... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
enables lower-level managers to make more decisions without consulting their superiors. By the same token, Computer-Assisted Design and Computer-Assisted Manufacturing software creates a situation in which the plant worker needs less... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
quality, measured objectively, has remained constant. Stay focused on costs. Many manufacturing industries (as opposed to services industries) are plagued by global overcapacity, relative even to pre-recession demand. Combined with excess... View Details
- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
ahead of the previous year! During the pandemic, 5.7 million new homes bought the Betty Crocker brand, which was the highest penetration growth across all General Mills brands. That kind of consumer demand required radical action. We quickly engaged with several new... View Details
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Transportation - Business & Environment
Optimus Ride Ryan Popple HBS MBA 2006 President and CEO, Proterra “Everyone deserves access to clean, quiet transportation. At Proterra, we are designing and manufacturing zero emission buses that abandon fossil fuels, improve... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
positions that helped him understand the complexities of the company—from shift supervisor in a manufacturing plant, to new product development, to business development. Weeks, a quick study, has 26 patents pending despite a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Prepare for Your Interview with Research
industries from apparel, textiles & fashions to manufacturing and robotics. These reports will help to educate you quickly on an industry by providing a synthesized overview of market and industry trends, as well as industry... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in... View Details
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Yaping Wang
"I wanted a job in an industry instead of a PhD." For more than eight years, Yaping worked for Mars in Beijing, conducting research for product innovation. "I probed for consumer insights, then helped translate those insights into new products and worked... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
I’d say, ‘a doctor,’” says Downing. “I was always intrigued with medicine. I guess it’s just in my DNA.” But, as often happens with childhood dreams, Downing set aside his medical aspirations. His father had launched Downing Enterprises, a View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large multinational View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
costs and retail prices down, prompting global production to shift to economies with lower input costs. The manufacture of personal computer components is now concentrated in Asia and manufacturers are... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Society to Create Competitive Advantage Harvard Business School Case 307-076 Focuses on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer in managing various aspects of government relations in China. Identifies a wide variety of social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace