Textile Mills - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2011
News

Where Conservation Means Business

19th-century New England textile mill records, volumes of R.G. Dun & Co. credit reports, business archives from Lehman Brothers and Polaroid, and HBS historical records. (Read about all the collections.) Not... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation and uncertainty. I worked on an organizing campaign... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came from a respected North Carolina... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

nineteenth century. From a bobbin boy in a steam-driven textile mill, where he was paid $1.20 a week, he moved on to a telegraph office, then to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and eventually to the gigantic complex of View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

pursue market changes. And leaders need ways to respond to business cycle changes. We want people to learn about the forces they unleash in the firm when they institute layoffs. We want to change the way layoffs are done." The Case Of The Malden View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on one of the state-owned sugar... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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