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01 Jun 2023
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the milestone of 100 years of Independence in 2047? Should India become a manufacturing powerhouse to rival China? Or should it stay content with services and become the Information Superpower of the world? What about pursuing new... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

July 2022 (Revised February 2024)
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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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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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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
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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

March 2020
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Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent... View Details

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01 Apr 2014
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product that carried a lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance that teens would easily develop nicotine addictions from smoking the fruit-flavored products. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2013
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Business School Case 213-080 FX Risk Hedging at EADS In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

22 May 2012
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http://www.msi.org/publications/publication.cfm?pub=1983 Cases & Course MaterialsJourney to the East: Natcore Technology in China Regina Abrami, Matthew Shaffer, and Weiqi ZhangHarvard Business School Case 912-414 Why is a U.S. solar technology firm View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

promising a lawsuit if the magazine went ahead. Milton Greenstein, the New Yorker’s legal counsel, told his counterpart at Velsicol, “Everything in those articles has been checked, and it is true. Go ahead and sue.” The manufacturer also... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

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Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details

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Martha Tassinari

Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify and reach their career and professional development goals.... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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

11 Feb 2014
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We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the United States. Download working paper: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2011
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the U.S. as well. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711498-PDF-ENG A123 Systems: Power. Safety. Life Richard H.K. VietorHarvard Business School Case 711-066 A123 Systems, the largest manufacturer of lithium ion... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2010
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this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710408-PDF-ENG C.K. Claridge, Inc James K. SebeniusHarvard Business School Case 910-045 Sued for patent infringement, chemical manufacturer C.K. Claridge (CKC) tries to design a settlement... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

home life. "Most of the time I end up sacrificing a fair bit on the family side," admits Weber, who in August resigned as president of Vickers Inc., a manufacturer of hydraulic pumps and motors in Toledo, Ohio, and moved his family to... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

comes to mind as I sit in on a value stream analysis meeting of Emory’s clinical trial process with Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant. A lean manufacturing technique that originated with Toyota, this particular exercise has produced a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

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

First Look: September 23, 2008

Prognosis

Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

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First Look: July 30

First Look: May 22

History’s Lessons

Lauren Murphy

Martha Tassinari

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

First Look: February 11

First Look: May 24

First Look: July 20

Managing the Business of Life

RX for Change