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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
engineering. There she helped suppliers design and certify their systems for flight: new seats for an aircraft, for example, or a Wi-Fi system for the new Delta Air Lines plane. She was surprised to find that engineers relied on outdated View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
that Hubscher knew she wouldn’t touch. “The product itself hasn’t changed,” she says. “A pen or a pencil remains a pen or a pencil.” She was also committed to Caran d’Ache’s artisanal approach to production. Crafting a single pencil requires up to 35 steps, with a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
Zobel; (front row) Mixon, Wyss. After half-joking that his greatest accomplishment was getting his wife to marry “an Oklahoma cowboy,” Mal Mixon (MBA ’68) cited his successful purchase of Invacare, a manufacturer of in-home medical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
algae Nannochloropsis gaditana and uncovered a group of genes responsible for regulating oil production. By tweaking one of those genes with the powerful editing tool known as CRISPR, the team ultimately doubled the amount of oil produced... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
lot has changed in the automobile business since Mark Fields (MBA 1989) was a young man growing up in Paramus, tooling around in his ride (full disclosure: his mom’s 1976 Chevy Caprice) on his way to becoming a rising executive on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
realize that unless senior management, right up to the CEO, is involved in some way, this issue won’t get the attention and investment it deserves throughout the company.” Hackers can make trouble for a company without even penetrating its internal systems. Using View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
foundation for entrepreneurial pursuits, in 1998 they launched GoLite, a company that manufactured and sold lightweight, high-performance outdoor clothing and gear. Kim took the reins as CEO in 2000, and the company quickly became a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in real time, even as other communications were disrupted. Just as important, Twitter became an invaluable tool for people to check on loved ones and seek evacuation and medical assistance. "That was the moment I decided to work at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Oct 2022
- News
Inside the Chip Shortage
says, adding that demand will continue to grow for applications in cars, robots, manufacturing, and health care. Semiconductors are the tools that make it possible to process data, which makes them foundational to modern technology. Most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
becoming CEO of Slim Jim manufacturer GoodMark Foods, this book shares the stories and lessons learned of an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary success by believing in himself. Despite nearly losing his job at General Mills several... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
where he worked on rebuilding subway tunnels at the World Trade Center disaster site. Intent on adding business management skills to his tech-nical tool kit, he applied to HBS. To his dismay, midway through his first year, the Army called... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
executives set standards for leadership. As good as the late 1980s were to forest products company Boise Cascade (BC) Corporation, the early 1990s spelled near disaster for its primary business — making plain, white copier paper. Like others in the industry, Boise... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Appliances division—his destination this morning—has piqued the interest of manufacturers worldwide. There is a long call about a potential new hire. The company, which Rogers cofounded in 2007, has almost doubled in size over the past... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
Research and Development Corporation’s investments. I haven’t regretted it to this day and am enjoying my retirement thanks to the professor. —Mel Saslow (MBA 1951) via alumni.hbs.edu One of Professor Doriot’s most interesting lectures in View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
and not 12- to 17-year-olds, the study clearly shows that cigarette advertising is significantly related to youth, but not young adult, readership. King and his colleagues conclude that the study can be used as an important tool in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
use their best elements in a hybrid “third way.” He demonstrates how the tools and principles of organizational economics can be used to build an innovation infrastructure with the right incentives and time horizons for investments. The... View Details