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  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

On a Sound Track

Skullcandy products are currently distributed in over 70 countries, a number that expands every month. So a major challenge for us is how to establish our brand in each local market. Good brands are globally consistent, but they’re... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Making Their Way

Mequon, Wisconsin, was sitting on three very disparate Rust Belt businesses: an industrial-lighting company, a medical-packaging business, and a welding company. In the middle year of his three-year OPM schedule, Chirchirillo saw the handwriting on the wall. “Overseas... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Short Takes

Bulletin. In her working paper, "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams," Edmondson presents field research she conducted at Office Design Incorporated (ODI), a midwestern manufacturer of office systems and furniture known for its innovative View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

technology management, and robotics to simplify and automate support activities. He also addressed dilemmas about whether to allow each division to adopt innovation at its own pace or institute it simultaneously company-wide, and the obligation of leaders to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

A CEO Goes Undercover

employees. But I was also reminded that the enthusiasm our guests feel about our parks won’t rise any higher than the enthusiasm of our employees. And it is my job as their leader to be our employees’ champion — to ensure their well-being and remove obstacles so they... View Details
Keywords: Joel Manby; reality television; social class; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 03 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

9 Lessons from the Class of 2019

Maha hopes to ultimately run for political office in Pakistan. View Video 3. A Lesson in Creating Innovative Products to Serve Far-Reaching Needs Wil Ely noticed a gap in technology platforms for skilled View Details
  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Competitiveness at Risk

successfully in global markets while also supporting high and rising living standards for Americans. America is not more competitive if businesses succeed by paying lower wages. Actually, the need to cut wages reflects a lack of View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

since then has experienced a lingering period of weakness, with slower than usual productivity growth, job growth, and investment growth. The report, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: The State of US Competitiveness in 2016, which... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the products (raw materials and finished... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

game, highly profitable Toyota has announced it will produce 9.06 million cars worldwide this year, while money-losing GM will cut production (after manufacturing an estimated 9.08 million vehicles in 2005). Increasingly, the glory days... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 17 Jul 2020
  • News

Support System

In Africa, shea butter is sometimes known as “women’s gold.” Used for everything from skin care to stretch marks to diaper rash, it’s a go-to product in high demand. And it offers employment opportunities for women willing to survey... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work

textile work. A few collections — such as the 2,500-volume R.G. Dun & Co. credit report collection and the detailed productivity studies from Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne, Illinois, plant — were known by library staff and scholars... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Professor Elton Mayo; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 25 Mar 2015
  • News

The Greening of Houston

facing Houston, one of the biggest is our need for talent driven by the growth in the region,” says Gilbane. “Despite the excellent universities here, we can’t produce enough talented workers to fill all the opportunities we have at these... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

quality, and delegating authority to frontline production workers to shut down a billion-dollar production line in the interests of quality improvement. More recently, Gary... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

into Japan's most famous, prestigious, and powerful collection of companies (or keiretsu), offering a wide array of products and services, but in the early nineties, Mitsubishi Corporation, the general trading company within that group,... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

during tumultuous change—the Taiping Rebellion in China and the Civil War in the United States—yet accomplished an enormous amount during this time of ferment: for example, technology transfer to China, helping Chinese students in the United States, promoting human... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail chains fell after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Making the Case for Leadership

technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
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