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- 07 Aug 2014
- News
Summer School? Teens Trade Classes for Factory Jobs
- 7 Apr 2016
- Conference Presentation
Assessing and Improving Working Conditions at Global Supply Chain Factories
By: Michael W. Toffel and Yanhua Zhou
- 2006
- Article
Factory 'Homers': Understanding a Highly Elusive, Marginal, and Illegal Practice
By: Michel Anteby
Anteby, Michel. "Factory 'Homers': Understanding a Highly Elusive, Marginal, and Illegal Practice." Annual English Language Edition Sociologie du travail 48, no. S1 (2006): e22–e38. (Read an interview about this article in HBS Working Knowledge.)
- March 2006
- Teaching Note
Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (A)-(D) (TN)
By: Youngme E. Moon
- September 1996
- Exercise
Project Management Exercise #2: Planning the Shad Factory Project
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Project Management Exercise #2: Planning the Shad Factory Project." Harvard Business School Exercise 697-024, September 1996.
- 2003
- Article
The "Moralities" of Poaching: Manufacturing Personal Artifacts on the Factory Floor
By: Michel Anteby
Anteby, Michel. The "Moralities" of Poaching: Manufacturing Personal Artifacts on the Factory Floor. Ethnography 4, no. 2 (2003): 217–239.
- 04 May 2013
- News
After tragedy, L.L. Bean to take closer look at overseas factories
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Supply Chain Woes Prompt a New Push to Revive U.S. Factories
- 12 Nov 2024
- News
How Managers in Indian Factories Mitigate the Impacts of Absenteeism
- 12 Apr 2021
- News
BMW’s Virtual Factory Uses AI to Hone the Assembly Line
- Web
Electrical factory of Moscow - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 next Electrical factory of Moscow ca. 1931 Amtorg Company Photographer unknown The great electrical View Details
- January 2004
- Supplement
Jack Welch General Electric-The People Factory at work: Picking My Successor at GE
By: Joseph L. Bower
Jack Welch describes the process by which Jeff Immelt was chosen. In doing so, he describes General Electric's People Factory. View Details
Bower, Joseph L. "Jack Welch General Electric-The People Factory at work: Picking My Successor at GE." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 304-808, January 2004.
- 20 Nov 2019
- Podcast
Factories without walls: How Autodesk is redesigning the work of architecture, construction, and manufacturing
Computer-aided design pioneer, Autodesk, is tightening the integration of design and production in everything from architecture to movies. This simple concept has far-reaching implications for the nature of work. Jobs, supply chains, and industries are set to become... View Details
- 2002
- Chapter
Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937
By: Elisabeth Koll
- March 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Global Sourcing at Nike
By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael W. Toffel and Olivia Hull
This case explores the evolution of Nike’s global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers’ factories. When the case opens in July 2018, Vice President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s... View Details
Keywords: Sourcing; Factory Conditions; Trade; Geography; Geographic Scope; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Labor; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Labor and Management Relations; Complexity; Sports Industry; Fashion Industry; Oregon; Portland; Asia; North and Central America
Hsieh, Nien-hê, Michael W. Toffel, and Olivia Hull. "Global Sourcing at Nike." Harvard Business School Case 619-008, March 2019. (Revised June 2019.)