Factory - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

factories to "produce" them. Second, they often have to. A wide range of actors are typically involved in monitoring and shaping an organization's decisions; these parties want a say in what the organization does, and their own agendas... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

organizations like Factual (founded by a former Google employee) have set as their goal that of providing access to all of the world's facts. Presumably this means data such as the location of every factory in the world, data that has not... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

Web

Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade

records Augustine Heard & Co. preserved for posterity. The company kept shipping receipts, custom documents, export lists, telegrams, insurance vouchers, accounting books, ship designs, factory plans, and silk and paper samples. It saved... View Details

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 4

and expertise have to learn to coordinate and establish a virtual, well-aligned organization. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/the-kursk-submarine-rescue-mission/an/114046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-065 Samuel Slater & Francis Cabot Lowell:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2013
News

Looking Through Glass, Historically

with numerous visits to the Library of Congress and the Patent Office. "I had to buy over 1,000 pieces of glassware to describe and photograph. After the company closed, I was able to go through old sales, production, and financial records that I had found at the View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

Asia," held at the Asia Business Conference on February 14 at Harvard Business School. Ever since the public outcry in the 1990s over the wages paid by Nike to its Asian factory workers, the issue of multinational corporate social... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others just as dissimilar, maybe even... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

and Field all understood that they needed consumer feedback. Success wasn't based on just what they offered as it came out of their factories or—in the case of Field—onto their sales floor. Wedgwood conducted some of the first focus... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

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

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

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

10 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 10

multinational buyers. We find that supplier factories are more likely to comply when they are embedded in states that are active participants in the International Labour Organization treaty regime and that have highly protective domestic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

Georgia, partnered with a local school district that had a dismal graduation rate. The company staffed its factory with the district's most at-risk kids, leading to a graduation rate that soared among those students as well as other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

included her husband. A decade later, in 1986, Claiborne was CEO of her own Fortune 500 company, reaching that milestone faster than any other business up to that point in history. Because the company did not own any of the factories that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

Kenya or Senegal does not care about global carbon; that’s a “global north” concern. However, they absolutely care day to day about air pollution, cost and availability of fuel, cost and availability of electricity, and avoiding the loss of roads, houses, farms, and... View Details

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

making leadership both more difficult and more rewarding than it was a generation ago. If critical decisions in the last century were typified by an all-or-nothing gamble on a new big new factory or business arm, then decisions in this... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

enabling detailed coordination among various operating units. Next, they looked at production decisions, which involve figuring out the tasks necessary to meet the goals and deciding how to pace them. These decisions are generally the bailiwick of either a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

her time between factory floors, design meetings, setting the strategy, and crunching the numbers. “I’m happy that I was there as the production manager when we started out, but I had to determine the best use of my time and skill sets... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

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