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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
As the new managing director of Hall & Woodhouse, one of England’s leading regional breweries, Matt Kearsey (AMP 193, 2017) knows that the best-tasting beer requires more than premium hops and pure spring water. “We give the process the time it needs,” he says. “We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
ELLIS: Joe Wilson was a servant leader who cared about people. PHOTO BY JEFF HACKETT Everyone always called him Joe. But as the leader of a corporate giant, Joe Wilson wasn’t exactly a regular Joe. As detailed in Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox (Wiley, 2006) by... View Details
- 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
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
strategy and organizational management. Products are being developed through open innovation, with input from people connected to each other and the company only through a common interest—and electronic media. Virtually every company on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
Richard S. Reynolds
Believing that aluminum was the metal of the future, R. S. Reynolds devoted his metal company’s efforts to its production, despite slow growth of the product in the 1910s. However, because of Reynolds’ foresight, the company flourished... View Details
Keywords: Metals
Stanley C. Gault
generated a 4-fold increase in revenues and a 6-fold increase in profitability. While he stripped weak product lines and slashed excess cost, he invested in new product development – generating over 100 new... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 17 Aug 2021
Behind the Scenes of Writing a Case Study: When manufacturing and a mass vaccination site intersect
discuss Professor Shih’s most recent case study. This case study provides an inside look at how Jamie, and the Toyota Production System Support Center (TSSC), partnered with Dallas County, Texas, to increase the efficiency of their mass... View Details
Irving S. Shapiro
position, Shapiro shepherded duPont through the energy crisis of the 1970s, forcing the company to engage in more production of raw chemicals. During his tenure, duPont’s revenues grew from $5 billion in 1973 to $13.7 billion in 1980. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- Fast Answer
Wastewater: treatment technology basics, market overview
in HOLLIS provides a list of books/eBooks on the topic Municipal wastewater: from production to use by FAO provides a general production diagram, definition of terms and variables. Market overviews and... View Details
Eugene G. Grace
Grace grew Bethlehem Steel rapidly during World War I, increasing production from 1.1 million net tons of steel in 1915 to over 3.3 million tons in 1919. Growing the company through various acquisitions, Grace’s Bethlehem Steel operated... View Details
Keywords: Metals
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Conferences or trade shows
players, view the products and locate information on companies presenting at the shows. Trade Group: search and browse for trade shows and conferences. Conference Alerts: search for academic conferences by topic. Trade Show News Network :... View Details
George S. Lannom, Jr.
Though he began his business as a tannery for the production of saddles and other equine equipment, Lannom was forced to diversify when the automobile gained popularity. To save his business, Lannom turned to the manufacture of baseballs... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
James L. Kraft
large part to Kraft’s efforts. In 1928, his company employed 10,000 people and sold a million pounds of cheese a day. Today, the firm ranks first in the United States in cheese and dairy products and second in salad dressings. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Profile
Jay Khil
for a company that makes tangible, physical products.” For a year and a half she worked on Product Development Finance, then she moved into auditing, a role that allowed her to travel throughout North America. “But I wanted to go overseas... View Details
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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Commercial photographers worked their medium not only to capture the realistic elements of a subject but also to imbue it with idealized qualities. The modernist sensibility manifested itself in the creation of fractured forms and compositions that encouraged viewers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
Walmart and Amazon are in the middle of an epic competition that is going to be thrilling to watch. The startups that have been most successful have targeted a specific category—Peloton in exercise, Casper in mattresses, Warby Parker in eyeglasses—and focused on View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
ball forward every day." Culture "Too many founders get caught up in raising money or getting a product to market, while neglecting culture and cofounder relationships, which are integral to a startup's longevity." Foundation "It's worth... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
created the distinctive Studebaker Hawk automobile. “Years later, I realized what an amazing place I had grown up in,” says Ross, who acknowledges her father’s influence on her own choice of careers — fashion product design. Over the past... View Details