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- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
identify ways to improve its production processes. Retailers, too, must recognize that to excel at execution, they must empower their people, including in their stores and distribution centers. A few years ago, we visited a Toyota factory... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
a worker bee, what's it like to show up to work each day in one of these companies? A: Here is what I think characterizes these workplaces. They are much more dynamic and flexible, and people exercise much more control about when and where they work. Now, there are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
sector financial help a joint venture was set up with POEMA, a modern high-tech factory built, and coca plantations developed. Some 5,000 people were employed. Literacy levels soared. Political participation increased. Change had been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
perceived them to be extremely efficient. At the same time, large work organizations destabilized extended family and community relations: first, by removing individuals from their family and community and placing them in factories for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
how to revamp the vaccine sector in anticipation. For Bingham, building factories that can quickly pivot to meet pandemic-time needs is essential. She also believes that the high level of engagement between vaccine developers and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the form of direct investment. That meant that instead of borrowing from Western banks to finance their industrial development, as many other emerging markets did, they got foreigners to build factories in Chinese enterprise zones —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Tushman and senior lecturer Mike Roberts, opens with Jamie Houghton (MBA 1962), the great-great-grandson of the company’s founder, taking over the corner office of his family’s firm. After a grooming process begun at a Corning lightbulb View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
evolution in the Darwinian world of high-tech business. Cafe Culture: CEO Russ Wilcox in E Ink’s offices, a converted factory space that includes a central gathering area for impromptu meetings and brainstorming sessions. On the table:... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
trainees how to assemble an aircraft wing—and has cut the time it takes them to do that task by 35%. At GE, factory workers have achieved a similar gain in efficiency by using voice commands in AR experiences to perform complex wiring. AR... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
a product or service varies for different customers, different buying units at the same customer, or the same customer in different contexts. What's the value of flowers delivered on—versus the day after—Valentine's Day? Or of one-stop choice? The Cheesecake View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
enact the scenario exercise themselves, devising their own scenarios, and deciding whether the LEGO Group should build a factory in an Asian location in the next five to seven years. In order to facilitate a discussion about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
a leader who saw one-third of his factory workers get COVID; many of them died. A number of CEOs have gotten COVID, too, but it really is their loved ones, not their personal safety they are worrying about. Because we are all going... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
our factories humming, our economy growing, our nation thriving. We're part of the economy, and what we do influences the economy." GM's initial responses included donating $1 million to the American Red Cross Foundation, matching... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg