Manufacturing - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in manufacturing plants where it had implemented teaming, which was designed to move decision making as close to the product as possible by delegating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

U.S. manufacturing industries from the Economic Census. We then relate coagglomeration levels to the degree to which industry pairs share goods, labor, or ideas. To reduce reverse causality, where co-location drives input-output linkages... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

trade to non-NAFTA partners grew by 195%. Critics of NAFTA claimed that it had contributed to a loss of manufacturing jobs to Mexico, increased inequality in all countries, and undercut environmental laws. Those who supported NAFTA,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

relations with governments. Emerging markets, or at least the larger and more fast-growing ones in Asia and Latin America, were increasingly seen as indispensable by MNEs in every industry. They were both a place to assemble manufactured... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

high-volume production of certain commodity items in the private sector. In part that’s because manufacturing those products doesn’t represent a very attractive profit-making opportunity under normal circumstances. In a crisis, however,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

management in the construction industry by the premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 2000. Following its customers’ needs, Hilti moved from selling power tools to leasing them as a service. The introduction of the new business model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and change the mix of marketing promotions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

their economies opened up, reducing the competitiveness between them and enhancing the complementarities. Some companies have already developed strategies that make use of both countries' capabilities. India's Mahindra & Mahindra developed a tractor domestically... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 May 2021
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Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

met my dad or brother, but we are excited to see them this summer! *** Name: Lailah Thompson Children: Yasmina (2 years), Antonio (1 month) Student Status: EC Where are you from? New York and Maryland Professional pathway pre-HBS: View Details

11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

mid-2000s. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-010 Faber-Castell By 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer... View Details

12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307047 Cook Composites and Polymers Co. Harvard Business School Case 608-055 This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and process quality in its View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

simultaneously reduce their domestic activity? This paper analyzes the relationship between the domestic and foreign operations of American manufacturing firms between 1982 and 2004 by instrumenting for changes in foreign operations with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

products, from venture capital to financial services firms, from manufacturing to services, HBS graduates were helping to create, revolutionize, and reinvent industries. Indeed, life without the host of products and services created by... View Details

July 2022 (Revised February 2024)
Teaching Note

The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-055. When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique... View Details

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March 2019 (Revised April 2021)
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The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli

When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique product. Fifteen years later, the... View Details

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01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

out of everything from manufacturing to capital markets and even services. Paradoxically, the greater the global system’s efficiency, the greater its fragility. Herein lies the Achilles’ heel of globalization, said Ferguson. “Almost... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

failures thus create managerial challenges and opportunities for focal firms and their competitors. Focal firm failures often result in sales decreases and cost increases associated with remedial public relations and manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Prognosis

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February 2, 2016

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Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

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An Entrepreneurial Journey

The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

Business at the Summit

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019