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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
achieve price parity with diesel trucks in 2023, five years sooner than previously forecasted. This is leading to big investments by EV battery manufacturers in the US, as well as fleet electrification investment opportunities. While most... View Details
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Georges F. Doriot
of HBS graduates—more than 7000 second-year students took his transformative Manufacturing course—and in 1946, Doriot created the first venture capital firm in the United States. American Research & Development (ARD), based in... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
public spaces that will absorb carbon and provide cooler ground temperatures for local populations to electrifying two- and three-wheel transportation to mitigate air pollution in major cities, there are so many incredible projects to get... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick In 1979, Mal Mixon parlayed $10,000 of his own money to engineer the purchase of an Ohio-based wheelchair maker that nobody else wanted. Today Invacare is the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- News
The Federator
Keywords: Reva; Mahindra; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
twenty years, particularly in high tech, made the decision to move manufacturing offshore where costs are lower. You have argued that the location decision should involve much more than simple financial savings. What have these companies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
IBM was concentrating on developing the System 360, Kenneth Olsen's Digital Equipment Corporation created a second path of computer learning by commercializing an inexpensive, stripped-down "minicomputer" for more specialized... View Details
- 21 Jan 2010
- News
Dubai: Unlike Anywhere Else
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business (Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
captures the challenges Komatsu, the second largest manufacturer of earth-moving equipment, faced during the past five decades as it sought to globalize its operations. By 2007, it had become the second largest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
computer manufacturers to steel mills and retailing, he has discovered consistent patterns in the way technological innovation affects both companies and industries. Health care, he declares, is no exception. According to Christensen's... View Details
- 26 Sep 2014
- News
Where Creativity Rules
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
solutions, but which type of organization will take the lead on a patient-data integration system that enjoys widespread success: hospitals, insurance providers, medical equipment suppliers, consumer tech companies, or some other entity?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
financing for this, since it’s not a 10X return kind of company,” she says. But thanks to the magic of a Google search, Kelleher discovered the Small Business Administration 7(a) program that allows for low-interest and long-term loans on View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
used software to launch their attacks. “Under the press of business and getting a product to market, some commercial software manufacturers have indulged in a ‘good–enough’ standard,” says Langstaff. “They reason that they can always fix... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
poorer Latin American countries. Traditional exports—coal, coffee, oil—still comprised more than half the total, while manufactured exports comprised only a fifth. Public investment in transport and other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
coauthors on this paper was connected to the manufacturing sector of India. We studied how the GQ project affected the productivity of incumbent plants and the growth of new entrants. The GQ was very important for the View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510055-PDF-ENG Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Lynn S. Paine and Lara AdamsonsHarvard Business School Case 310-043 Richard Wingfield considers whether to continue a cooperative agreement with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace