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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
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
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Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School
Featuring Maria P. Roche . By Jay Fitzgerald on April 29, 2025 . Finance and Investing How $40 Loans Lifted Lives in Kenya Featuring Jung Koo Kang . By Rachel Layne on April 24, 2025 . Data and Technology Remote Work Extends to Factories... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
this year, of the millions of cars being churned out in factories all around the world, one of them, unknown and unremarked, will roll off an assembly line and take its place in history. Basking under the hot lights of a showroom, or... View Details
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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
factory employees, industrial researchers, and designers. Publicity stunts and events featured include cross-country races, goodwill tours, and celebrity appearances. The holdings represent intriguing examples of advertising photography... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/905409-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-052 The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A) Responsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Introduction - The Response - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
scale of human figures working within the dynamic forces of furious heat and colossal machines. Aikins’ depictions of gigantic factory spaces, filtered with light and smoke, illustrate the stages of steel production that workers described... View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
World founded 1909 Uprising of the 20,000 female shirtwaist makers in New York strike against sweatshop conditions Clara Lemlich and the Uprising of the 20,000 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory in fire in New York kills nearly 150 workers... View Details
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
information themselves. Besides managers, the site's creators hope MapEcos will grab the attention of members of the public, including environmental activists. Users can track factories' pollution activity over time, compare factories in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System
The Toyota Production System is a paradox. On the one hand, every activity, connection, and production flow in a Toyota factory is rigidly scripted. Yet at the same time, Toyota's operations are enormously flexible and responsive to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Replicating Toyota's Success
the company has welcomed countless observers, even competitors, through its factory doors, but no one has yet approached Toyota's success. "The research we've done since 1999 is not so much about decoding the DNA as it is about... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
organizations is also driving the trend, generating “digital trace data”—records of employee behavior captured on devices central to performing jobs everywhere, from the office to the factory floor to the job or delivery site. Spurred by... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
team had the incredible opportunity to visit Vestas' state-of-the-art factory in Odense, Denmark where the company manufactures its cutting-edge 9.5 MW (model V174) and 15 MW (V236) offshore wind turbines intended for installations around... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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Green House
complex, and Harper worked with design-and-build firm Group Design Build to execute an exacting vision. Each bay and gable creates challenges for unwanted air leakage and heat loss. To dramatically decrease potential loss at the seams, the core shell was built in 90... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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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
- 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
- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology
find sustained market growth amidst digital advancements. The focus is on CEO Jeff Clarke's decision on whether to continue film production or close the factory permanently. Professor Ryan Raffaelli on location at Kodak headquarters in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change
ventilation, employ water recycling, and produce minimal waste. “Our aim is to model ‘the factory of the future’ and demonstrate how a traditional industry can transform, be sustainable, and remain profitable.” Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976),... View Details