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  • 02 Dec 2019
  • What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

inevitable; it will never be eliminated. This is an oversimplication of a complex phenomenon, with nuances in every large organization that has grown beyond the “one for all and all for one” startup spirit. But when it rises to a level that affects marketing plans,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation
  • 14 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

business in India during the decades of the 1970s and 1980s. Bajaj Auto, the leading two-wheeler manufacturer in India, for a long period could do little to fight a slow-moving bureaucracy in a highly regulated country deeply suspicious... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

http://harvardbusiness.org/search/210020/ The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Harvard Business School Case 610-003 When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Caterpillar, Inc. (A)

By: David F. Hawkins
2010 Healthcare Reform Act eliminates Medicare Part D subsidy and Caterpillar recognizes a $100 million change. View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Employment; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Change Management; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Activity Based Costing and Management; Business or Company Management; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 02 Mar 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

the US withdrew this ill-fated measure in 2003 after the World Trade Organization authorized the largest penalty sanctions ever against a member state, and after the European Union threatened retaliation. Back then, there was ample evidence of unintended consequences... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Complete Package

Courtesy Susan Chong The typical wooden shipping pallet, constructed of mixed hardwood, ccan weigh 50 pounds, Susan Chong (OPM 48, 2016) explains. But a pallet made of pine weighs half that, and for businesses air shipping their products, that difference can translate... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Short Takes

Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
  • 03 Aug 2020
  • News

A Clean Start

could combine electricity and carbon dioxide and also be worth more than what it cost to make. After four months of weighing alternatives, he settled on formic acid: a commodity chemical and energy-rich electrofuel, or carbon-neutral... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

Ert, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/1/2/117/ The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2000 (Revised July 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan

By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
Teaching Note for (9-198-088). View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Cash Flow; Capital Structure; Business Earnings; Financial Statements; Business Plan; Profit; Cost Management; Performance Evaluation; Strategic Planning; Financial Management; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Italy
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  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

those that give them a little taste of luxury at a reasonable price. "It's an affordable luxury," he said of his company's beauty products. "Do you have thirty-two dollars in your pocket for a tube of moisturizer? Every day of the week." But how can... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products
  • February 2009
  • Teaching Note

Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for 709458. View Details
Keywords: Health; Employees; Cost; Policy; Situation or Environment; Innovation and Invention; Contracts; Programs; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 09 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

advice by drawing on both academic research and the lessons of skilled practitioners. It begins with a discussion of the potential benefits and costs of advice seeking and advice giving. The note then defines and distinguishes four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2003 (Revised January 2008)
  • Case

The British Motorcycle Industry at a Crossroads

By: Jan W. Rivkin
By 1975, the collapse of the British motorcycle industry is nearly complete. Only one British manufacturer, NVT, remains in operation. In this setting, the British government commissions the Boston Consulting Group to identify and evaluate strategic alternatives for... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Great Britain
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  • 13 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

think the chances of a government plan supplanting private options are slim," he writes. But the existence of both public and private insurance plans might provide enough competition to improve overall value for patients. Professor Michael Porter cautions that a public... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

efficiency benefits of market transactions Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Leveraging Waste: Implications for Competition and Welfare (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We study the competitive and welfare implications when a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

expenses since the 1980s. Program accounting allowed Boeing to expense estimated average costs instead of the actual production costs of an aircraft. This practice lowered the effect of the initially high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

Abstract This paper empirically investigates how market leadership influences firm propensity to adopt new business process innovations. Using a unique data set spanning roughly 35,000 plants in 86 U.S. manufacturing industries, I study... 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
Keywords: by Staff; Health