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    Lothar W. Faber

    Faber improved the Eberhard-Faber Company’s product line by adding fountain pens, mechanical pencils, and refill leads. Faber also invented the clamp tip type of pencil with a removable, adjustable eraser. Faber grew the company’s... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 11 Jun 2018
    • Blog Post

    Reimagining Fashion For The Good Of All

    Zalando is a fairly unknown brand in the U.S., but the leading online fashion platform in Europe. Growing at a yearly rate of +20%, it was founded 10 years ago and it currently has more than 15,000 employees and is present in 15 different markets. After having... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 30 Oct 2014
    • Blog Post

    Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Robert Leke...

    Current Position: Senior Associate, Tana Africa Capital Current Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Tell us what you’re up to these days. I maintain a position at the same company I joined shortly after my graduation from HBS in 2012. I work at Tana Africa Capital... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 15 Jul 2014
    • Blog Post

    Discovering a new organization and state as an intern

    I have a tendency to plan rather far in advance (huge understatement), so I was pretty psyched to get the MBA intern calendar from Walmart in my email prior starting my internship. Opening it was actually overwhelming- there is literally at least one training / tour /... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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    Brew Club

    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 15 Feb 2011
    • News

    The Yella Fella Rides Again

    Keywords: Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing
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    Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    Chapter Images The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Message: Confidence in Corporate America Business is essentially our civilization, for it is the essential characteristic of... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2017
    • News

    2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech

    must now be more cost competitive, in both domestic and foreign markets. Meanwhile, the explosion of digital technology has forced manufacturing to look at its competitive advantage not just in terms of cost competitiveness, but also in the way the sector defines View Details
    Keywords: Jerry Jasinowski (AMP 97, 1985), former president and CEO, National Association of Manufacturers
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    Insurance company filings: Statutory reports

    Where can I find insurance company's statutory reports? Here is what you can do: go to S&P Capital IQ Pro type in the company name at the top search box select from choices on left to view Corporate Profile, News and reports S&P Capital IQ Pro also... View Details

      Nicholas M. Schenck

      When Marcus Loew died in 1927, Schenck assumed control over all of his holdings, including Loew’s theatre company and its production arm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Despite the onslaught of the Depression, though, Schenck’s attention to... View Details
      Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

        Leo H. Baekeland

        In 1907, Baekeland invented a high-quality synthetic substance that would change the lives of individuals and businesses forever – plastic (called Bakelite). Products produced with Bakelite were considered to be synonymous with high... View Details
        Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

          Henry P. Kendall

          Kendall was instrumental in advancing the textile industry. He emphasized basic product research and the application of scientific management to all phases of manufacturing, purchasing and sales. His company was a major supplier of... View Details
          Keywords: Healthcare
          • 19 Sep 2024
          • Blog Post

          A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

          In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details

            Watson H. Vanderploeg

            Vanderploeg continued Kellogg’s impressive growth. Under his leadership, he grew sales six-fold from $34 million to over $200 million and quadrupled earnings. He was devoted to international expansion (opening new plants in Australia and Great Britain) and was... View Details
            Keywords: Food & Tobacco

              Lyle C. Roll

              Under Roll’s tenure, Kellogg continued its 20 consecutive years of growth in revenues and earnings. Through strategic acquisitions of Salada and Fearn, international expansion, and new product introductions (most notably Eggo Frozen... View Details
              Keywords: Food & Tobacco
              • 06 Jun 2013
              • Op-Ed

              How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

              they pursue internally, while relying heavily on outsourcing many of those activities to strategic partners. At the same time, they seek to increase the number and nature of product offerings, many of which are also offered by their... View Details
              Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
              • 01 Jun 2018
              • News

              Case Study: Tip the Scale

              purchase monthly shares by weight, rather than à la carte, resulting in a fulfillment process that is “relatively complex and pretty unique,” Cummings says. Every order—with 5 to 30 items, selected from 100 products stacked on a... View Details
              • May 2008 (Revised May 2008)
              • Case

              Symyx Technologies, Inc.

              By: H. Kent Bowen, Courtney Purrington and Thomas D. Perry
              Symyx is a science-based company spun out of Berkeley. Its unique materials technology has been exploited for 10 years, but the company needs a new business model. The company concept required the invention of hardware and software to do high throughput materials... View Details
              Keywords: Business Model; Transition; Engineering; Technological Innovation; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software
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              Bowen, H. Kent, Courtney Purrington, and Thomas D. Perry. "Symyx Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 608-152, May 2008. (Revised May 2008.)

                Leland I. Doan

                Doan was responsible for Dow Chemical’s greatest diversification and expansion. Doan began by delegating increased authority to department heads and building a larger sales force trained to become market and production analysts. Upon... View Details
                Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

                  Ralph A. Hart

                  Hart was instrumental in taking the newly public company, Heublein, to new heights. He grew revenues five-fold (from $100 million to $500 million) and dramatically expanded Heublein’s international footprint with production facilities in... View Details
                  Keywords: Food & Tobacco
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