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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly pressed to move toward international norms in the area of stakeholder relations... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
has yet to be realized. A report by Ocean Energy Systems, an offshoot of the International Energy Agency, found that between 2009 and 2019, global energy production from wave and tidal sources increased from 5 to 45 gigawatt-hours, or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
without selling the company. More on that later. Going light on the environment in the manufacturing process was a big deal to Kim and Coup, too. Their ultra-light philosophy and eco-friendly mindset drive every GoLite idea and product:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Christensen (MBA 1979, DBA 1992), Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan (HarperBusiness) The long-held maxim that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation is wrong. Customers don't buy products or services; they “hire”... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Valley or Shenzhen. And so this innovation movement of automobile production internationalized—but so did best practice. Think of things like just-in-time manufacturing that emanated out of Japan and is now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
information is to be exchanged over whiskey, let us get it rather than give it.” “An auditor is like a tailor: He can make a fat man look thinner or taller or younger.” “You will get nowhere if you do not inspire people.” “Always remember that someone somewhere is... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
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 View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
few natural resources, a small, destroyed manufacturing base, and income per capita less than a quarter of Britain’s to one of the most prosperous nations on Earth. By 2015 its GDP per capita was over 40% higher than Britain’s. How did... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
process is the product,” Bohmer confirms. “It’s much more than a piece of paper.” Next, Kaplan and his team introduce the Toyota Production System (TPS), which transforms the hospital’s health-care delivery model. How those enormous... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
company. Finally, in 1990, my wife and I purchased a controlling interest in a middle-market manufacturing company with a successful, proprietary product line. I served as president for the first 10 years,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
long-standing tradition of being one of the state’s few Democratic pockets outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with a history of labor unrest and unionization dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. That energy carried workers along for decades, until iron... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
demands of increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
2020 is this is the time to be creative. What's needed right now? There are things that are standing out that the world or that the economy needs because of this crisis. And there's opportunities to build businesses to address those needs. Or go work in the industries... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
capitalism remains a major challenge. “When you don’t have the marketplace slapping you in the face, telling you your product is no good, you can really get confused,” Gates acknowledged. In health care, the foundation simply looks at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
leader. I traveled a lot with my father as he was starting manufacturing plants all over the country. Some years later we would go back and visit, and I saw the extraordinary impact that business could have on society. In places where... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Professor of Business Administration and cochair, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship One such example is CellScope, which manufactures a device that fits easily over a smartphone's camera so a parent or school nurse can take a photo... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
and heavy equipment. One might suspect that China's activity in Africa is another instance of a foreign power exploiting resources. But Sun shows it is really a story about resilient Chinese entrepreneurs building in Africa what they so recently learned to build in... View Details