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Brendan Mosher
Defense (DOD) fellowship to Stanford. There, he concentrated on engineering design and worked on energy reduction optimization for a Nissan factory in Tennessee, as well as an innovative consumer technology that helps improve automobile... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
changed competitive environment the company faced in smartphones and mobile phones. The strategy shift would include transitioning Nokia's phone operating system to Microsoft Windows and closing phone R&D centers and factories in 13... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
line and realized that all the significant pieces used to make Kodak's digital cameras—lens, shutters, electronic screen displays—were manufactured far from the factory floor in Rochester, New York, largely because American companies had... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those factories are revealed to be dangerous, illegal, or otherwise problematic. While firms are increasingly relying on private-sector "social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/905409-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-052 The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A) Responsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Brand China Can Succeed
Its double digit economic growth rates—especially for a country of over a billion people—have been enviable. China has become factory to the world. The Chinese are rightly proud of their achievements and the 2008 Olympics promise to be... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Maliha Khan
troubled her. "When I got to the factory floor, I found that the women there would never make progress — they could never advance in their jobs — unless they got the necessary education." Most of them, in fact, were illiterate.... View Details
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
business, ideological and commercial interests of the factory owners.” 57 The powerful images commissioned by U.S. Steel document the story of the industrial advances, technological might, and human enterprise entailed in transforming raw... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
will give you the money it now spends on buying your health insurance. You will be required to use the money to buy insurance for yourself. People like me who prefer HMOs could still buy them. Insurers will contract with the focused View Details
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Introduction - The Response - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
scale of human figures working within the dynamic forces of furious heat and colossal machines. Aikins’ depictions of gigantic factory spaces, filtered with light and smoke, illustrate the stages of steel production that workers described... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
organizations is also driving the trend, generating “digital trace data”—records of employee behavior captured on devices central to performing jobs everywhere, from the office to the factory floor to the job or delivery site. Spurred by... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Anthony L. Chirchirillo Leveraging China to Achieve Global Advantage for a U.S. Factory Chirchirillo: From Wisconsin base to global competitor. Related Links The Path to Economic Revival James McNerney Jr. Manufacturing's New Reality (HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
management. The Development Factory by Gary P. Pisano (Harvard Business School Press) Product development has long been a source of advantage for firms. In The Development Factory: Unlocking the Potential of Process Innovation, Associate... View Details
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Jeremy Burnham
his team tested it in the Paez’s factory and found the idea both impractical and unprofitable. But being in-country helped them understand the personal impact of high inflation (as much as 25% - 30% a year) on behavior: People often spent... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
team had the incredible opportunity to visit Vestas' state-of-the-art factory in Odense, Denmark where the company manufactures its cutting-edge 9.5 MW (model V174) and 15 MW (V236) offshore wind turbines intended for installations around... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
complex, and Harper worked with design-and-build firm Group Design Build to execute an exacting vision. Each bay and gable creates challenges for unwanted air leakage and heat loss. To dramatically decrease potential loss at the seams, the core shell was built in 90... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
cell-based technology. "If these alternatives are as tasty as their animal-based counterparts, and if they're priced right, then our reliance on animal protein will decrease and the need for factory farming"—a significant contributor to... View Details