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- 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 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
well-established firms such as Walgreen's and Rite Aid. We also look at Amazon.com, another upstart that can claim to be "the biggest book store in the world." By looking closely at these companies' use of the Internet— which I believe is the analog to the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
Real In the summers of 2008 and 2009, when he was a doctoral candidate at HBS, Bernstein hired a team of five Chinese-born Harvard undergraduates to be "embeds" at the plant. They lived in factory dorms and worked alongside... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,... View Details
- 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
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Factory Models for Cancer Care This case compares and contrasts four different models for delivering cancer care in India and the United States. Students are asked to select the best model in its alignment with the Six Forces in those two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor perfected a mass production system that converted the vast majority of jobs in the factory into routine tasks. It pioneered the moving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the Digital View Details
Keywords: 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
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
practice cost transparency. For example, Everlane (www.everlane.com), is a San Francisco-based online retailer that reveals the variable costs of production for each of its products, as well as images and descriptions of the factories... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
help when building a new factory or rebuilding after a natural disaster. Mills recognizes the same determination, creativity, and sense of community that have always impressed her in working with owners of small and growing businesses.... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 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