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- 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
- 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
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity and low prices, Esquel was just... 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
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
illustrates Hindustan Unilever Limited's conflict resolution and people development policies using a "leading from the middle" example. The story centers on the challenges faced by an HR manager at a factory who must meet... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
potential. My guess [is that] the societal effects are just as important." Ganesh Ram commented, "We laugh at the Luddites who destroyed factories in the early Nineteenth Century but the cost of obsolescence is more rapidly and... View Details
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
with recycling and take-back programs. Next, we toured the Grundfos factory floor, which was an amazing opportunity to see in-person their vertical assembly for advanced manufacturing process. This layered approach is quite rare due to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
where his father eventually landed a job at a General Motors factory in Doraville. Stan O’Neal attended the General Motors Institute (which later became Kettering University), a co-op program where he alternated between studying... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
lightweight containers they can easily carry around with them. No wonder that Mixon points to new product development as a cornerstone of Invacare's success. Since he combined $10,000 of his own money with bank loans, a factory... View Details
- 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
- Web
Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library
trusted no one else as completely. 6 Victor McElheny maintains that Morse “had confidence and a talent for diplomacy, essential in moving a technical capability from the lab to the factory floor to the advertising agency to the merchants... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Siemens, the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, Bosch, BASF, and so on, all managed to somehow reconstruct and reinvent themselves after these upheavals. So I intended to write a long-term study about a company or factory with a focus on its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
1957, Olsen and Anderson submitted a four-page, typewritten business proposal to ARD, followed in May by a nine-page proposal. 43 ARD offered the two entrepreneurs $70,000 in equity financing for a 70 percent share and an additional loan of $30,000. The team found... View Details