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- 01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
encountered at a subsequent role in Raytheon’s missile defense program. Highly technical specifications were often tracked in low-tech Excel spreadsheets, which meant engineers lost considerable time to paperwork. That was frustrating, but even more alarming was the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
it’s not really clear what you bring to the table, and that’s a much more difficult sell. The benefits to the host country are far more palatable if you set up manufacturing operations from there because that immediately generates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
bringing it to market, and devising a competitive advantage. The exercise, incorporated into the required Strategy course, was introduced in March to all 900-plus first-year students during a two-day event in the Batten Hall hive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
are more performance and training related. Next, make sure there is good patent protection. And finally, develop a strategy for longer-term digital partnerships and begin the search. Find partners that will license the technology and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
investment banking, law, and management consulting firms — are unique in that they have no products, manufacturing plants, or distribution systems. Their financial success depends entirely upon the capability and performance of their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
wars” and aggressive global expansion. Pearson left PepsiCo to join the HBS faculty in 1985. He taught the first-year course Competition and Strategy and the elective Management Policy and Practice. “Andy brought an extraordinary amount... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
executives set standards for leadership. As good as the late 1980s were to forest products company Boise Cascade (BC) Corporation, the early 1990s spelled near disaster for its primary business — making plain, white copier paper. Like others in the industry, Boise... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing manager at Cadillac, Camargo is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
students gain practical exposure to the choices involved in developing a product (beer), bringing it to market, and devising a competitive advantage. The exercise, incorporated into the required Strategy course, was introduced in March to... View Details
- 21 Jan 2010
- News
Dubai: Unlike Anywhere Else
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
vaccine manufacturers to increase their seasonal influenza vaccine-production capacity so that in the event of a pandemic, we could maximize such capacity for producing a pandemic vaccine. We understand that companies may not be inclined... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
guests also talked about the leadership challenges of finding vaccine candidates, expediting clinical trials, and the need to invest billions without a clear sense of outcomes. Mango described it as a “portfolio strategy to manage... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
technology, he says. Yoffie puts the challenge to his students in the EC course Strategy and Technology: “I tell them that this is real. This is not a hypothetical. This is the world as we will know it over the next five to six years. The... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
officials show no signs of changing course and backing away from further market reforms. But external criticism of the country’s uneven progress in implementing the trade agreement has grown stronger in recent months. U.S. manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
for better views and more natural light. That means happier tenants who are willing to pay more for the space. Soladigm, which has a pilot manufacturing facility in California, is in the process of building a high-volume View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Say “Green Cheese”
HOUSENBOLD: Picture perfect. All over America, shoeboxes full of print photos are gathering dust. But hard copy is not dead: There’s a growing demand for homemade picture books and scrapbooks whose pages people can design online themselves and fill with their own... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
executive with 25 years of experience, Viana (PGL 4, 2001) was tired of implementing strategies focused on short-term profit. He had been looking for a small technology company to purchase and run on his own terms. Curiosity had brought... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
to use for each major transaction is, naturally, Goldman Sachs. Second, selling should be separated from manufacturing to be sure the best manufacturing skills are dedicated to making the best product.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Sep 2014
- News
Business Leaders Downbeat on Workers' Prospects
Keywords: Competitiveness; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing