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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
sectors. In November 2022, Enan joined venture capital firm 500 Global as partner in its newly opened offices in a renovated factory near Cairo University. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010, with $2.8 billion in assets under management,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
his musket factory. And I also look at Oliver Ames who was making shovels just down the road from the Business School in Easton, Massachusetts, mechanizing that process. Now we start to get things like the telegraph and the railroad and you start to see these huge... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
factories in the US,” Toffel says. Timing is everything Previous research showed that the accuracy of third-party audits is affected by factors such as the inspector’s gender and work experience. Ibáñez and Toffel wanted to look at the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
commercial buildings in the asset mix. Cities don't claim that office buildings, retail malls, or factories were built for the Games. Even Olympic housing is seldom successfully transformed into apartments or public housing once the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
profitability. He notes that Xerox Corporation, for example, is currently implementing a plan to reclaim its equipment, refurbish it, and resell it - without having any waste leave the plant in the process. "They not only hope to achieve zero product and View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
both in business history courses and more generally to teach political risk management by multinational corporations. Beiersdorf, a German personal products company, expanded globally before 1914, but had its foreign factories and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each process type. It then delves more deeply into work flow... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://hbr.org/product/an-entrepreneur-s-new-product-development-journey/an/513098-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-434 Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up? (A) Southwire, a leading maker of cable based in rural Georgia, has partnered with the local school... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
creations. Her unique metalwork designs are now in the permanent collections of a dozen museums, including the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The jewelry business grew to the point that Ross felt compelled to open her own... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Group had transformed itself in two decades from a small welding material factory in 1989 to a leading global construction equipment manufacturer with 5 industrial parks in China; 5 R&D and manufacturing bases in America, Germany,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
consider the life of a guy who was twenty years old and living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Such a young man was facing a very different reality. Factory jobs had mostly disappeared and now he was looking at a life stocking shelves in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
in different modes of transportation since my first visit as a kid to the Boeing factory and have spent my time at HBS learning about advances in this field. Along these lines, I am exploring concepts for utilizing cutting-edge... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
experience with skin tone-matching technology and samples; CareTech (Vivek Agrawal, Felicia Hanitio, and Mili Sanwalka), a personalized learning platform for domestic care workers; and Space Factory (Conan Cooper, Cyrus Hessabi, Malory... View Details
- 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
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
emissions, waste generation, waste diversion, water consumption, etc.) but also the social indicators (minimum wage, forced labor, child labor, health and safety, etc.). We strive to be mindful of our actions, respectful of our planet, and to ensure our employees and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
rigorous research in areas with a clear connection to practice. For example, to study the conditions under which workplace transparency improves performance, Bernstein embedded Harvard undergrads on production lines at a Chinese mobile devices View Details