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List of Videos by Professor Bower

Bower, Joseph L. "Interview with Bertrand Collomb, Honorary Chairman and Director, Lafarge." Succession Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School, 2008. Video.

Bower, Joseph L. "Interview with Reuben Mark, Chairman & CEO, Colgate Palmolive Co."... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

joined venture capital firm 500 Global as partner in its newly opened offices in a renovated factory near Cairo University. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010, with $2.8 billion in assets under management, 500 Global had already invested... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

customers more control and set their brands apart. The online apparel retailer Everlane provides detailed descriptions about the factories that produce its clothing. And Lemonade has upended traditional insurance by taking a set portion... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Harvard Business School

and implemented programs to improve the company's factory sourcing. Prior to joining Walmart, Jackson was president and COO at Dollar General Stores, where he led significant new store openings and improved same-store results. Previously,... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

becoming even more acute over time.” Beyond answering short-term labor needs, Eckert thinks these kinds of co-bots also have the potential to upend traditional factory economics. “For a generation now, you had to go to a low labor cost... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

William Blackie

Blackie took Caterpillar Tractor from a small U.S. based factory in Peoria, Illinois to a multinational corporation. Blackie was instrumental in creating new markets for Caterpillar products. He invested heavily in international expansion... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of business of the merchant or agent, who was called a “factor.” “We were not allowed to go beyond the limits of the factories (about a hundred yard square) except to the ’Hongs’ (places of business of the Hong merchants) and for exercise... View Details

06 Jan 2012
News

Where Are They Now?

Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Sep 2014
Article

What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully

The data on comparative labor and energy costs may seem compelling, but the process of bringing assembly work back to domestic factories from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper... View Details

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Industrial Life Photograph Collection | Baker Library

companies. The images include men and women at work, production methods, research laboratories, factory exteriors, offices, completed products, and manufactured equipment, such as agricultural and road-building machinery, in use. Most... View Details

John T. Underwood

Purchasing the rights to the only “visible” typewriter available at the time, Underwood led his company to extreme success. By 1915, he had created the “largest and most complete typewriter factory in the world,” and his company was... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

09 Jan 2019
News

Why New England Needs New Ideas

machine,” they write, “but his innovations contributed to the US economy in ways that cannot be overstated.” They also note that New England has also seen the flip side of innovation, represented in the region’s “fading factory towns.”... View Details

Keywords: New England

18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

recently announced it would invest $2 billion to add up to 4,000 jobs at 17 American plants. The Los Angeles Times reports that chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will open a $4.6 billion semiconductor factory north of Albany, New... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2018
News

An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

production facility that are different from typical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). And the vehicle’s design allows for an efficient production process at low volumes and with manual labor. Because of these innovations, Yong says the View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

William C. Norris

An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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Industrial Life Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

1920s to the early 1940s—from hardhats operating rail trucks in the depths of the International Salt Company mines to uniformed women of the California Fruit Growers Exchange packing produce in cavernous factory spaces. Detroit, Michigan... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Baker Library Photo Exhibit

with visual evidence of the interaction between worker and machine. The collection invites the viewer to reflect on art and industry and humanity and modernization. In the image above, titled “War work–Hudson” (circa 1944, photographer unknown), women View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Alfred C. Fuller

Fuller developed a new, unique brush for household use and employed salesmen, called independent “dealers,” to sell his brushes directly to the consumer. Fuller grew sales of his firm from $40,000 in 1910 to $12 million in 1924. By 1930, Fuller had 1,200 View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Frank J. Fahey

Fahey created a sales organization to distribute Gillette products throughout the world. By 1917, Fahey was producing 1 million razors per year compared to just 91,000 in 1904, and had established factories in England, France, Germany and... View Details