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Ryan Yu
In my dad’s paper factory in Malabon City, Philippines, I spent hours being chased by dinosaurs. I took a cardboard box, taped on an old clock, flipped an hourglass, pulled a plastic lever, and went back in time. Stationed beside a giant... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
to obtain.” In a study of a Chinese manufacturer that encouraged factory workers to submit innovative ideas to bolster the company’s operations, Gallani and her colleagues find that providing certain perks and incentives for task-based... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
operations from China, especially when the future of the trade war is uncertain. “They’ve made easy shifts, but it’s much harder to relocate a factory from China to Vietnam,” Cavallo says. “They are unwilling to make those hard choices... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
target—and building a new factory. If the target and the factory each cost $100, and debt can only be used to finance one of the two transactions, how should the remaining $100 of equity be issued? "I could borrow $100 to buy the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
movement. “Let’s look for evidence,” she says, drawing them back to the document each has in hand. She’s hoping they’ll discover the statistics in Exhibit 4 showing the divide between New York’s rural and urban communities. One student suggests, correctly, that the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
says. “And if the company wins, the employees win, and the shareholders win.” In fact, so many of those shareholders now work in the company’s manufacturing facilities, Zeitz observes, they have asked that a stock ticker be installed on the View Details
- Portrait Project
Haoran Jiang
The distant humming and bashing from the nearby factory floor kept me from falling asleep on the couch in my father’s makeshift office; I was only five years old. After my parents separated, I was being raised by my father, a humble guard... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
in communities. Our factories are in communities, our colleges and universities are in communities. We are leading by example, not just within our organizations, but within our broader communities. And especially since we’re talking here... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
direction, resulting in an excessive number of brands and factories organized nationally in a Europe undergoing economic integration, and a virtually autonomous business in the United States. There were barriers to flows of knowledge,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
beverage company with $90 billion in revenue, $15 billion in profits, and 8,500 brands sold in 197 countries. For most of the 20th century, Nestle enjoyed steady growth and profitability. The company had been early to establish factories... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
planning for move of EU manufacturing offshore ” Most respondents suggested that the Company’s survival was more closely associated with product/market issues than the logistics and politics of manufacturing. Roaddoggie said, “The new View Details
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Connell House | About
enterprise. As a business leader, Connell provided astute strategic direction while giving individual plant managers independence and responsibility. He made frequent visits to factories and customers across the globe and maintained a... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 09 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte
and repair in the factories to ensure the team could meet demand. I enjoyed this role because I was solving new, complex problems and learning every day. Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? Definitely. To be... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
the factory floor," she recalls, "I felt like I was back at the family dinner table." Her professional DNA includes a consulting role at McKinsey & Company, a stint at General Foods, and considerable venture capital experience. Gordon... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
government. This is a great deal for Magna, but terrible for Chevrolet. GM's best small cars are engineered (and some are manufactured) by Opel in Europe. But it's not just about design and engineering. The supply chains and factory... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
production equipment, and Firestone increased its capital spending in tires in 1968 and 1969, retooling its factories to accommodate belted bias production.9 The records of Firestone's board meetings demonstrate no systematic evaluation... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details