Manufacturing - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 1980 (Revised April 1981)
Case

July 1975
Case

Paper Distributors, Inc. (B)

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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April 1990 (Revised August 1993)
Case

NIKE in China (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Nike is reviewing its strategy for producing shoes in China for the U.S. market. Compares the experience in China with that in other countries. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China; United States

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01 Mar 2009
News

ROGERS WITH CONCEPT CAR: “Technology has changed over the past 100 years. We no longer need to build cars the way Henry Ford once did.” Matthew West/Boston Herald Jay Rogers (MBA ’07), whose grandfather once owned the legendary Indian Motorcycle company, also has some... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

26 Feb 2009
News

Last Look - March 2009

Our thanks to HRPBA ’60-ers Sandy Krickovic Self and Nancy Needham Merrill, who recognized themselves as the second and third models in the photo. Self wrote: “In Malcolm McNair’s Marketing class, we were studying the women’s retail clothing market and how there was... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Apparel Manufacturing; Apparel Manufacturing; Apparel Manufacturing; Apparel Manufacturing

14 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

How to Profit from Scarcity

of scarcity can be a smart marketing strategy. And even if you're in the unfortunate position of experiencing very real scarcity, there are tactics you can employ to minimize the brand damage and even profit from the error. What's your scarcity story? Has your company... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products; Advertising

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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

venture capital is inextricably linked to Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the industry. During his 40-year tenure at Harvard Business School, the charismatic professor taught business and leadership in his celebrated View Details

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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

other active calling,” he wrote. “The classical schools and the colleges do not offer what I want. . . . Here is a real need and a very serious problem.” 1 By the turn of the twentieth century, a rising managerial class was overseeing the growing View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

Learning from the Past

works know themselves less well than they might, and to their cost." Strassler credits his successful business career with giving him the time and wherewithal to undertake and finance the project. In 1963, he and his associates took over the management of an ailing... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Feb 2000
News

Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority

Headed by newly elected president Maryann Pernorio (MBA '90), HBSA-SNE invites student clubs - such as the Manufacturing & Technology Management Club (MTM) - to attend dinner programs that have included speakers such as John Welch,... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Books

Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education by Michel Anteby (University of Chicago Press) How does HBS try to ensure that its faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Associate Professor Anteby... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor concessions. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

The competitiveness of many multinational companies depends on their ability to transfer intellectual property and other intangible assets to their worldwide production processes. These sources of competitive advantage can be anything from a proprietary View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

19 Jun 2018
News

Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

alumni and guests gathered at the HYP Club. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) was founded in 1883 and is now the world’s largest manufacturer of paints, coatings and specialty materials, with $15 billion in sales.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2000
News

Q&A: Andrew Kendall

As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

manufacturing businesses. After describing the nitty-gritty details of scraping together the firm's first purchase in a post-September 11th economy, Williams highlighted a few key takeaways for aspiring entrepreneurs: "In a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

27 Apr 2023
News

Life Preserver

When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape opportunities for youth in developing... View Details

Keywords: April White

Fast Answer

Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research

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Reports covering technology and market trends in... View Details

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

regarding manufacturing activity, exports, and imports. When China made a currency adjustment, market participants took fright, fearing a much bigger slowdown than they expected. The wheels came off an over-exuberant Chinese stock market,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

Limited was facing significant pricing pressure in their cash cow business, that primarily consisted of manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). To combat this commoditization, Biocon's leadership had chosen an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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