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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions about manufacturing and marketing. After each round of play, reports are generated that include balance... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
different, yet effective diversity efforts, each one closely aligned with the unique character of the particular firm. "Part of the key to an organization's success was adopting a model that worked well in its particular culture," Thomas explains. As a... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
Factory" (HBR May-June 1974), Wickham Skinner proposed that manufacturers whose product lines had proliferated create specialized units, each dedicated to a distinct task. To make this economically feasible, he suggested the plant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
Manufacturing course. He also helped found the European Institute of Business Administration. A Chronicle of the China Trade: The Records of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877 Augustine Heard & Co. was among the largest American trading... View Details
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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
encountered at a subsequent role in Raytheon’s missile defense program. Highly technical specifications were often tracked in low-tech Excel spreadsheets, which meant engineers lost considerable time to paperwork. That was frustrating, but even more alarming was the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
manufactured at scale.” The unique circumstances of the vaccine effort, and the need to apply leadership and management skills from the private sector to public service made for an engaging conversation between the guests and the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
manufacturing and smart cities. Video content will continue to expand significantly, and autonomous factories aren’t far down the road. As people swap out their devices for the latest generation, and billions of devices come online,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
it’s not really clear what you bring to the table, and that’s a much more difficult sell. The benefits to the host country are far more palatable if you set up manufacturing operations from there because that immediately generates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
director of Admissions at Kellogg.) By the time she graduated, the pair had two daughters, Akilah and Ariel. In 1989, Steven and Michele Rogers decided to pursue their entrepreneurial interests and purchased Fenchel Lampshade Company in Chicago, a 66-year-old View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
price of Facebook,” says Viceira, “but when you look at national markets of developed economies, they all have utilities, airlines, manufacturing companies, telecom companies, so you might expect them to move together more than any... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
nature of the wearables market. Q: Any closing thoughts? A: If you think about the traditional watch industry, Apple's competition is not the Swiss. Since the 1990s, Swiss watch manufacturers have repositioned mechanical watches as status... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate
climate. I had done some shipping and logistics work during my career, and had also liked the tangible aspects of working in a manufacturing facility. In the back of my mind, I was always curious about the physical infrastructure of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
interaction might look like, imagine that a golf club manufacturer sells a nine iron online, then invites the buyer to upload a video of their swing for critique by a pro. Or a music store sells an instrument, then offers the buyer online... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- News
Start-ups Honored for Game-Changing Ideas
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
activities—such as space mining and microgravity manufacturing of specialized materials like semiconductors and optical fibers—could take a while to develop. “If you want to stay alive as a startup, one place where there are stickier... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
body? It turned out that there was another solution. They didn't need to manufacture new organs for transplant; instead, they needed to make better use of existing ones. "We could literally multiply organ transplantation on Earth 15 or 20... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag (MBA 1968) was the president of Unison Industries, an aviation component manufacturer he had grown from one Midwest factory into a 1,500-employee international business. He... View Details
Keywords: April White