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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
production facility that are different from typical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). And the vehicle’s design allows for an efficient production process at low volumes and with manual labor. Because of these innovations, Yong says the View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
the company has welcomed countless observers, even competitors, through its factory doors, but no one has yet approached Toyota's success. "The research we've done since 1999 is not so much about decoding the DNA as it is about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Test Room (ca. 1930): Selected to work in an experimental test room, six young women employees noted, as did Mayo, that the setting’s intimacy engendered stronger friendships than occurred on the factory floor. Over time, their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
last December, rather than busing students to an area factory, the TOM faculty brought the factory to the students, delivering a “virtual” plant tour led by one of the company’s managers and facilitated by an HBS research associate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
on how to succeed in the new economy. “We look at how the Internet can enhance our business by improving communication with both our customers and our network of suppliers around the world,” he explains. A quality-control problem at a View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed... View Details
- 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
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
cell-based technology. "If these alternatives are as tasty as their animal-based counterparts, and if they're priced right, then our reliance on animal protein will decrease and the need for factory farming"—a significant contributor to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
job as similar to that of a curator. "Hollywood is a dream factory. We're kind of the factory part of it, but you also can't look at these products like they were clear product. You have to create an aura around them," he explains. "I'm... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag (MBA 1968) was the president of Unison Industries, an aviation component manufacturer he had grown from one Midwest factory into a 1,500-employee international business. He... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
factory floor workers, that cut energy per unit of lip balm produced by 40 percent); “Dumpster dives” that bring employees face-to-face with the trash they throw away; and reimbursement for employees who buy and ride their bike to work at... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Baker Library Photo Exhibit
with visual evidence of the interaction between worker and machine. The collection invites the viewer to reflect on art and industry and humanity and modernization. In the image above, titled “War work–Hudson” (circa 1944, photographer unknown), women View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz Supply-chain shortages put container shipping in the headlines during the pandemic, with images of vessels languishing in line at major ports worldwide. It made visible what Steven Henderson (MBA 2016), CEO and cofounder of Fleetzero,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
design the company’s real value proposition? The Answers: Why not have a set of silhouettes with customizable features at a range of price points? With X bod- ices and Y skirts and Z trims, the bride now has a large number of permutations, but the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 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