Publications

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

framework for sovereign capital structure analysis. It is useful for assessing vulnerability, policy analysis, risk management, investment analysis, and design of risk control strategies. Both public View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

of widths and eschewing celebrity endorsement of its products—and discusses New Balance's operations decisions to support that strategy. These include significant use of domestic manufacturing at a time when... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

downstream party's optimal sales effort and, as a consequence, lead to different order quantities. We provide a formal characterization of both effects, insight into how these effects interact, and information on which conditions the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Clubs

General Management & Operations Club

Keywords: Manufacturing; Manufacturing

06 Jan 2012
News

Where Are They Now?

his company, Sundaram Medical Devices, was awarded in 2010 in the first annual HBS Alumni New Venture Contest. But Mahesh, the founder and CEO of Sundaram, a manufacturing start-up in Chennai, India, that is... View Details

04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to explore novel, untested ideas over tweaking... View Details

29 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

datasets) is positively correlated with dispersion among experts' forecasts. Further we use longitudinal datasets with sales forecasts made three-nine months before earnings report date for retailers and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

business leaders do have a duty to be competitive and to help restore the manufacturing base of our country. Nations that allow their manufacturing infrastructure to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

October 1981 (Revised April 1984)
Case

H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (A)

Relates the April 1979 discovery of improper income transferal practices used at the H.J. Heinz Co. Background data on the company is presented, along with a detailed description of the organizational practices, the management incentive system, and the corporate... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Business Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry

01 Dec 2022
News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

social media sites like Facebook,” Lin says. The founders asked themselves how they might build the app if they had been designing for these users from the start. “We realized that it would look pretty different,” Lin says. They rebuilt... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

September 2009 (Revised August 2011)
Case

Transworld Auto Parts (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft strategy maps and balanced scorecards to help each division implement its strategies. View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry

17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

relationship, greater partner integration is associated with higher costs, but not with higher product quality. Our results shed light on the subtle interplay between formal and relational contracting. They have important implications for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

it hit me right there.” That moment, the moment Wilcox fell in love, was the starting point for a wild ride called E Ink, which manufactures the electronic “paper” used in e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle, cell phones, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

actually consistent with design principles established by the development team? The case seeks to expand students' view of the product development process. Traditional software development projects begin with the gathering of requirements... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

January 2003 (Revised January 2008)
Case

The British Motorcycle Industry at a Crossroads

By: Jan W. Rivkin

By 1975, the collapse of the British motorcycle industry is nearly complete. Only one British manufacturer, NVT, remains in operation. In this setting, the British government commissions the Boston Consulting Group to identify and evaluate strategic alternatives for... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Great Britain