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- 24 Apr 2012
- News
Start-ups Honored for Game-Changing Ideas
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
Manufacturing had good lessons on systems thinking and building a learning organization.” What advice do you have for current HBS students thinking about launching their own companies? “Find a great work partner, find a great life... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
interaction might look like, imagine that a golf club manufacturer sells a nine iron online, then invites the buyer to upload a video of their swing for critique by a pro. Or a music store sells an instrument, then offers the buyer online... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
Baker Library Historical Collections In the fall, the Baker Library / Bloomberg Center debuted an exhibit tracing the life of Georges Doriot (MBA 1922), one of HBS’s most storied professors. Well known by students for his popular View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
high-volume production of certain commodity items in the private sector. In part that’s because manufacturing those products doesn’t represent a very attractive profit-making opportunity under normal circumstances. In a crisis, however,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
alumni and guests gathered at the HYP Club. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) was founded in 1883 and is now the world’s largest manufacturer of paints, coatings and specialty materials, with $15 billion in sales.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Extending Opportunity: Brock Family Fellowship
was to go back into manufacturing after receiving my MBA, but HBS opened up a whole new world of possibilities," she says. "I had a phenomenal experience at HBS," continues Brock-Wilson. "It revealed new fields of interest, enriched my... View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the headquarters of Traeger Grills... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
business can get a loan.” Small Businesses Strengthen US Supply Chains The current global supply chain back-up underscores the importance of valuing and fostering small manufacturers and service providers. Referencing her work (see below)... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick In 1979, Mal Mixon parlayed $10,000 of his own money to engineer the purchase of an Ohio-based wheelchair maker that nobody else wanted. Today Invacare is the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
manufactured a product that changed the world by dint of its pervasiveness and indispensability. But as some noted, Ford also introduced revolutionary management, workplace, and business innovations that in and of themselves transformed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
A. Reynolds Morse (MBA 1939), founder of Ohio-based Injection Molders Supply Company and a longtime friend of artist Salvador Dalí, died last August in Florida. He was, the St. Petersburg Times (August 22, 2000) reported, "a political conservative who developed a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
The Bulletin staff set out to answer a question they hear all the time: Who ARE the HBS alumni? Digging into the alumni database,* they found a network that ranged from farmers to financiers, and just about everything in between. Here, a few of the stories behind the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
nine associated firms specializing in the manufacture and repair of turbine engines for the aircraft and other industries. But in addition to his business career, Twaalfhoven has long carried the flag for the cause of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
to use for each major transaction is, naturally, Goldman Sachs. Second, selling should be separated from manufacturing to be sure the best manufacturing skills are dedicated to making the best product.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
home life. "Most of the time I end up sacrificing a fair bit on the family side," admits Weber, who in August resigned as president of Vickers Inc., a manufacturer of hydraulic pumps and motors in Toledo, Ohio, and moved his family to... View Details