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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
semiconductor manufacturers’ capabilities. It’s no coincidence that the entire flat-panel display industry emerged from semiconductor industry capabilities. The people who built the factories to make semiconductors used that knowledge to... View Details
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
watch lines in development. The firm went bankrupt, but the new manager-owner, Royal Robbins, embarked on a disciplined new strategy that transformed Dennison’s vision into a profitable company. First, Robbins dedicated the factory to a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
findings, which substantiated my insight about Soviet decision-making, were published in Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises (Harvard Business Press, 1990) and simultaneously in Russia by our Soviet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
a battery factory in Birmingham, Alabama, that we’ve set up for R&D and production, and we’re assembling the first full-scale battery pack for the ship. It’s getting a new paint job, which will take 75 days, and then we’ll be putting the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
factories. Why are you such a strong advocate of a factory-like approach to health care? What I call health-care-focused factories are a response to the reality that today 80 percent of health-care costs are spent on 20 percent of the... 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
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
job as similar to that of a curator. "Hollywood is a dream factory. We're kind of the factory part of it, but you also can't look at these products like they were clear product. You have to create an aura around them," he explains. "I'm... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
continents. “We continue to build a new category in the digital manufacturing space. We empower engineering and manufacturing professionals to design, order, and commission custom factory equipment as fast as three days, through a... View Details
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
to grow and prosper. Manufacturing sectors in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore face the pressing problem of lower wage competition from plants in China. Thus many of those regions' manufacturing firms are relocating their factories and... View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
Second, VW factories "fully loaded" the New Beetles with options to maximize the unit margin that VW and the dealers extracted on each vehicle. Third, VW incented its dealers to stock up on non-scarce cars such as Golfs and... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
a factory in a low-cost location in Asia? Such a move over the next five to seven years would be full of risk, especially considering LEGO has had a checkered history of expansion—one such effort almost led to bankruptcy. So Harvard... View Details
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
in Haverhill, Massachusetts, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These images, taken in April 1912, show the factory building, company office, and workers at their stations in cutting, stitching, lasting, finishing,... View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
publications, and novelty items featured appealing romantic imagery—women, children, animals, flowers, and pastoral scenes. Other themes included references to popular literary subjects, the exotic, and racial and ethnic stereotypes. Illustrations that positioned... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
“Before his talk, Professor Shih toured three Moog factories in the Buffalo area,” says Sherrill. Moog Inc., which is currently headed by CEO John Scannell (MBA 1999), is a leading aerospace manufacturer, producing critical components for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Africa was to become one of the focal points in Laguë's career and philanthropic activities. He launched his own telecom company, CDR International, there six years later, after Adesemi had been sold. Today, he is an investment partner in Emrok Tea View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
computer science, optics, and various engineering disciplines. We need to get over the outdated notion that manufacturing is "mature" and unconnected to science. Anyone who believes that should take a tour of a factory that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
firm whether a vessel carrying vital goods has left port or show an insurance company the damage a tornado has left in its wake. Customers access the BlackSky constellation through an online portal that allows them to image locations around the world—a port in... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
and then went to work in a factory and his mother, a homemaker, did not attend college because her father didn’t think education benefited women. Thinking Bigger In his parents, Ryan saw a deep determination to foster opportunities that... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
to encourage U.S. companies’ domestic operations, through a study of one company’s decision to backtrack on a factory relocation plan. In February 2016, the Carrier Corporation (a maker of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
remote now, in different parts of the country. Olivia’s apartment has become a 3D printing factory (we’re up to three 3D printers in her childhood bedroom), running almost 24/7. Our testing has gone virtual, with face-to-face interviews... View Details