Factory - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 May 2011
News

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

Portrait Project

Joel Bryce

"help" Sub-Saharan Africa. Or perhaps it's the values instilled in me by my parents; they taught me to love, to serve, even to favor the poor and marginalized. Or maybe it was Shupe Nkhwaza, the single and selfless mother of four running a small juice View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Looking to the East

studied at Tokyo University, is president and CEO of Fanuc India, an arm of Japan-based Fanuc, a world leader in factory automation and robots. Kulkarni was invited by the Indian government to participate in the meeting because of his... View Details

08 Feb 2018
Blog Post

WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School

Dropbox, where WesTrekkers spent an intimate evening socializing and learning from these companies’ executives. On the final day of programming, a few dozen students had the opportunity to visit some Tesla employees at Tesla’s main View Details

Keywords: Technology

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

factory in the middle of the city, and it is probably the only city in India where you can drink clean water straight out of the tap. Both my grandfather and father worked at Tata Steel, the iconic steel manufacturing factory. I grew up... View Details

Milton S. Hershey

Hershey founded the first mass market chocolate company in 1900. His chocolate bar was so popular that the company did not advertise it until 25 years after his death. The company’s sales grew rapidly from $622,000 in 1901 to $55 million in 1941. The Hershey View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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

Portrait Project

Liz Delozier

invention after the managers in charge had given up. Fifty years later, I graduated from high school and the Fisher Plant was bulldozed after hundreds of layoffs. Grandpa’s pension evaporated. College now meant picking a major that would never leave me laid off. Yet... View Details

05 May 2020
News

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... View Details

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

factory of an automobile parts manufacturer. The manufacturing company is a customer of CleanMax and pays CleanMax a recurring fee for the solar energy generated on the roof of its factory. The solar system was separated into three... View Details

Web

Productivity Tip: Stop Moving Your Star Workers | Working Knowledge

firm needs to adjust internally when they are working with a buyer that is so large, and the [firm] cannot fail [in delivering on the order],” he says. Examining worker-level productivity data from a large readymade garment manufacturer, with 50 View Details

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

23 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

purchase in their contracts, and also by having the brand’s staff or a third party audit these supplier factories to check. Kost: Do you think that consumers are aware of the working conditions among the suppliers for their favorite... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

24 Apr 2014
News

From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’

experience who were open to new ideas. A self-confessed “blank slate” upon his arrival—he had never been to China and didn’t speak Chinese—Perkowski used $150 million in US investor capital to launch ASIMCO, an auto parts manufacturing business, in 1994. By cobbling... View Details

Web

Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

factory, and it was here that he became fascinated with mechanics and factory operations. With experience in the automobile industry, Georges was chosen to serve as an engineering officer in the French heavy artillery regiment during... View Details

Web

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 Jun 2006
News

Sending a Message

(MBA ’89) of the settlement, “We were definitely feeling the effect of the case on our business. We took one for the team” (Steven Levy column, Newsweek, March 13, 2006). Observers have noted that NTP, the Virginia-based patent-holding company receiving the payout, has... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

01 Jun 2007
News

Vertically Inclined

the firm’s current focus on Manhattan’s Hudson Yards district, an area of warehouses, parking lots, and factories that was rezoned for residential development in 2005, the New York Times reported (February 25, 2007). Elghanayan, who is a... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction

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

Frank C. Ball

In 1885, Ball Brothers Company, founded by Ball, his brother and uncle, began making glass fruit jars and caps. In 1887, they built a factory in Muncie, Indiana and converted the company into a corporation with Frank Ball as president. By... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Publications