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- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
Will space explorers create new ventures that benefit us, or will they (like the old factory whaling ships) exploit and ravage natural landscapes that had been untouched? Will even less human restraint in space require even more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
Video Embed The Esquel Group has reduced water consumption at its factories by more than 50 percent in the last nine years. Asia–based Esquel Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts, producing about 100... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Leading the way in sustainable style
pro-environmental policies are not only a social good, she says. They are also money savers that helped Esquel weather the economic downturn. Now she wants to share her company’s successful strategies with the industry through sustainability conferences and View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
in an inner-city factory with union labor. As Stuntz quickly learned, entrepreneurs need a high tolerance for rejection. Prospecting for investors yielded only disappointment. “We finally decided to self-fund,” he recalls. Greentech... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Distributing dreams with a curatorial eye
studio Lionsgate owns a minority stake in his company. Seeing so many interesting films struggle to make it into a theater was his impetus for starting Roadside. "Hollywood is a dream factory. We're kind of the factory part of it, but you... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
complex, and Harper worked with design-and-build firm Group Design Build to execute an exacting vision. Each bay and gable creates challenges for unwanted air leakage and heat loss. To dramatically decrease potential loss at the seams, the core shell was built in 90... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
ventilation, employ water recycling, and produce minimal waste. “Our aim is to model ‘the factory of the future’ and demonstrate how a traditional industry can transform, be sustainable, and remain profitable.” Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976),... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
it a reality, and the plants and factories to scale it. OCO’s bread and butter is a processing device called an electrolyzer, which combines electricity and CO2 and splits water to make formic acid. That formic acid can then be sold to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
Five Degrees of Doriot Re: Lasting lessons My fondest memory of the Business School is having lunch with the professor and discussing my thesis on “making the automatic factory a reality” that I did with classmate John Diebold. Doriot... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
were being purchased, with each factory having its own suppliers and price points. While this revelation was itself startling, the manager maximized its impact by inviting the company's division presidents into a boardroom where samples... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
semiconductor manufacturers’ capabilities. It’s no coincidence that the entire flat-panel display industry emerged from semiconductor industry capabilities. The people who built the factories to make semiconductors used that knowledge to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
findings, which substantiated my insight about Soviet decision-making, were published in Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises (Harvard Business Press, 1990) and simultaneously in Russia by our Soviet... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
management. The Development Factory by Gary P. Pisano (Harvard Business School Press) Product development has long been a source of advantage for firms. In The Development Factory: Unlocking the Potential of Process Innovation, Associate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
becoming even more acute over time.” Beyond answering short-term labor needs, Eckert thinks these kinds of co-bots also have the potential to upend traditional factory economics. “For a generation now, you had to go to a low labor cost... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
and then went to work in a factory and his mother, a homemaker, did not attend college because her father didn’t think education benefited women. Thinking Bigger In his parents, Ryan saw a deep determination to foster opportunities that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
firm whether a vessel carrying vital goods has left port or show an insurance company the damage a tornado has left in its wake. Customers access the BlackSky constellation through an online portal that allows them to image locations around the world—a port in... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
Georges Viana surveyed a factory floor filled with silent, outdated machinery. Then, a quick, scuttling movement caught the corner of one eye: rats. He hadn’t known what to expect when he arrived in the city of Caen, 150 miles west of his... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his earnings from working nights in a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie