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- 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
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
factories. Why are you such a strong advocate of a factory-like approach to health care? What I call health-care-focused factories are a response to the reality that today 80 percent of health-care costs are spent on 20 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
design the company’s real value proposition? The Answers: Why not have a set of silhouettes with customizable features at a range of price points? With X bod- ices and Y skirts and Z trims, the bride now has a large number of permutations, but the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
to its current home in Durham, North Carolina, in 1993 and focused exclusively on personal care; by 1998, its product line included more than 100 items and annual sales exceeded $8 million. In 2003, Quimby (who had bought out Shavitz ten... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
it to people who previously had no understanding of what we did. The experience made me much more focused on our vision and the incredible importance of its communication.” Vera Makarov (MBA 2010) Co-CEO/COO of Apli, 2017 Alumni Track... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting his number of investments.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Ballroom dancing, painting Recommended Reading Einstein's Dreams, by Alan P. Lightman "Written by a humanist/scientist, this is a compelling collection of fables focusing on various conceptions of time, as seen through the imagined dreams... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
history of women in business to give her audience some perspective on the transformational effects of economic independence. Among the first places U.S. women worked outside the home were textile factories in Massachusetts, she noted. The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
friends, and the first half of the 20th century offered plenty of both. Still, given American wages, survival meant minimizing hand work. Since imported glass was typically blown, the domestic industry focused on pressed glass despite the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
dissertation focused on organizational mutiny. “Mutiny happens, but it’s hard to study,” says Merryman, noting that her interest in the topic was sparked by the 2006 resignation of Harvard President Larry Summers in the wake of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
set of hands to help advance their own work. The fellows’ studios occupy the eastern expanse of the building, which has been teeming with art and activity since 2018, when Price and Kaphar transformed two dilapidated factory buildings in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
firm whether a vessel carrying vital goods has left port or show an insurance company the damage a tornado has left in its wake. Customers access the BlackSky constellation through an online portal that allows them to image locations around the world—a port in... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devised to facilitate factory work in the last century. The term “artful making” was inspired by the collaborative successes that creative artists regularly achieve without plotting a detailed set of objectives in advance. The book... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
profitability. He notes that Xerox Corporation, for example, is currently implementing a plan to reclaim its equipment, refurbish it, and resell it - without having any waste leave the plant in the process. "They not only hope to achieve zero product and View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
NIH for clinical testing. The company had moved from concept to clinical-trial-ready in a record-breaking 42 days. Moderna is just one of scores of research teams worldwide currently shepherding vaccine candidates through development and testing with unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Network Groups (DNGs) organized around particular constituencies but open to everyone. At present, some 29 DNGs have been formed, focusing on networking, mentoring/coaching, and community outreach. DNGs are encouraged to consider the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
opening our first factory in the US and we are close on our second. All of our major growth plans are around renewables. We just can’t move fast enough. My sense is, the IRA will push us over the edge here in the US, and we will enter an... View Details