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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
enterprises. While the south corridor's exhibit items focus on these industries, materials hung in the north corridor depict aspects of modern marketing, displaying advertising materials for products and services such as bicycles,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
was so bored with the antiquated course offerings that he spent much of his time at Stagedoor, India’s largest professional theater company. There he acted in eleven plays and frequently served as production manager. Following in his... View Details
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Dennison to mechanize the production of watches, a technique recently applied to firearms. Dennison, an artisan watchmaker underemployed throughout the crisis years, calculated that interchangeable parts could dramatically reduce the high... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Boom Times Ahead
productivity cycles drive economic booms that are further powered by the explosion of new technologies,” explained the Sacramento Bee (October 5, 2004). People get excited when Dent gets bullish, because he’s been right on the money... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
typically build up around a geographic location where natural resources, an appropriately educated labor force, and a university or other research institution co-mingle. In recent years, some economists have argued that manufacturing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
from anything so unquantifiable as emotion, Moon values that intuition and wants to “help validate” it. More Retail Revolutions Speeding Up Accessories BaubleBar cofounders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both MBA 2010) apply the popular “fast fashion” model to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
with senior researchers James Weber and Mary Louise Shelman, examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers must make major decisions about View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
that arises from merely purchasing a product. Labor increases valuation of completed products not just for consumers who profess an interest in "do-it-yourself" projects, but even for those who... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- November 2020
- Teaching Note
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr and Bailey McAfee
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 820-104. View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
At the PSA Corporation’s Pasir Panjang container terminal in Singapore, the cranes operate automatically: no drivers, just operators remotely controlling up to six of the lifting machines with a single joystick. Welcome to the most advanced port in the world — and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
page « To learn more about these seven HBS Alumni trendsetters, click on their photos below: Marjorie Yang Instilling Production with Principles Instilling Production with Principles Áslaug Magnúsdóttir... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
India’s Oil
India’s finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), is presiding over an economy, Asia’s third largest, that’s chugging along nicely and projected to finish with a 7 percent growth rate this year. But as Chidambaram told Reuters News (September 15, 2005), he’s... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country’s stock market has almost tripled in size. A vibrant domestic fixed-income market is emerging, new View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
"We design them here, but the labor is cheaper in Hell." © Drew Dernavich/Condé Nast Publications/Cartoonbank.com Today, many people are looking to high-technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives... View Details
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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Collection: Data Analysis Photography has the capacity for accounting for things seen in the visual world with an exactitude... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
prod corporations to put some of their remarkable cash hoards to productive use. Estimates of the cash held by U.S. public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
transfer increases labor productivity and wages directly. The interesting thing about China and also India is that about half of their populations are still employed in the agricultural sector. In this... View Details