Factory - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

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

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

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

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