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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
fixation of broken bones had been produced in Switzerland by a separate manufacturing company and distributed in the United States. Wyss undertook a vigorous change of direction, first building a View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
strategy revolution was a way of systematically putting together all the elements that determined their corporate fate, in particular, the three Cs central to any good strategy: the company’s costs, especially costs relative to other... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Boeing and by selling time rather than engines—up-time, that is. The deal guaranteed that GE would keep the engines running for a quoted cost per hour, providing whatever parts, service, and related support might be needed over the life... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)
I had done some shipping and logistics work during my career, and had also liked the tangible aspects of working in a manufacturing facility. In the back of my mind, I was always curious about the physical infrastructure of cities. I had... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Chairman and CEO, Integrated Micro-electronics Inc.: “Ayala-led Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI) seeks to bring down the cost of nursing COVID-19–afflicted patients back to health by manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large multinational View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
Summing Up The depth of the global financial crisis is becoming clearer day by day. In the United States, it is being used as a reason to set aside ideology regarding government ownership of important financial institutions, possibly including those that also View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
individuals using their Internet sites that could endanger users' welfare, (2) resist such license requirements, or (3) cease doing business in China. The increased complexity arises from the fact that Yahoo, Google, and others are not simply View Details
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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
companies in the national economy), Italy is the second largest manufacturer and the second largest European exporter. Students will learn how Italy’s companies – that include some iconic brands that leverage the powerful “Made in Italy”... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
end in itself may prematurely rule out all kinds of businesses that could otherwise prove successful—businesses like his own Mesken, a direct-to-consumer website that sells custom window treatments manufactured in Bahadir’s native Turkey.... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
you have on a tower means more energy. One tower could reduce electricity costs by 53% in the first year for a manufacturer or a refinery or an airport. Rio Tinto has invested and is building its first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
10 percent of GDP, per capita GDP is just shy of $500, and it has slightly more than one billion people. It is a relatively closed economy without a great deal of foreign investment. Today, the globalization imperative is driving Western View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
of disobedience. "To lower my costs while improving the price and quality of my products, I needed economies of scale," he explains. "Ignoring a government regulation, I increased my volume by more than the permitted 25 percent of my... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
investment without far-reaching central planning. For example, a developer can install PRT to benefit its own property, thereby establishing initial PRT links without resorting to public funds. Despite the high social and environmental View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
as when a U.S. auto company builds a parts plant in Mexico, has come into prominence only in the past few decades. Cutting costs is fair enough, unless it is done by paying less-than-living wages, creating unsafe working conditions, or... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
growing concern that such regulation may simply shift production to unregulated regions, potentially increasing overall carbon emissions in the process. Carbon tariffs have emerged as a possible mechanism to address this concern by imposing carbon View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne