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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
plants, you don’t need to employ highly skilled technicians to maintain equipment. Suppliers of production equipment also tend to cluster near manufacturing. (The countries with the highest production of machine tools—Germany, Japan,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
note. Nohria explained his belief that people’s life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
suspect it was transporting contraband. He grabbed a CSECO Fiberscope—a fiber-optic inspection device that resembles a plumber's snake—and fed it into the gas tank. He peered into the scope's eyepiece. "Generally, if you interdict a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
traffic congestion, which is public enemy number one on passenger car fuel efficiency. The second thing we could do is address our agricultural food distribution system. If we went back to localized farming, it’s amazing how we could change the View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE [Sound of golf club hitting ball] In 2020, Aaron Sabin was working as a mechanical engineer at the golfing equipment company TaylorMade. Aaron Sabin: What I would do is I would design a golf... View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Dhivya Suryadevara Named GM’s Next CFO
Photo courtesy of GM Photo courtesy of GM The CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, recently announced that Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) will be named CFO. Fortune reported that as vice president of corporate finance, Suryadevara has been instrumental in GM’s divestiture... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
as original equipment, therefore, that was the signal for tire companies either to insist on higher prices to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- prices that would not be easy to obtain, or to sell... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
purchasing, had just been notified by the contract manufacturer of SmartPak’s dog food that the weight-control formula might contain melamine. The substance, which has been used by Chinese manufacturers to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) had a tough act to follow when he took over as GE chairman and CEO in September 2001 from the legendary Jack Welch. Ever since, Immelt has been on a mission to transform the $152 billion industrial and finance behemoth from one famously... View Details
Keywords: GE; General Electric; Jack Welch; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales approaching $2 billion. Airports around... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
like realistically modeling molecules for more efficient drug discovery and material design. The equipment that SEEQC—short for Scalable Energy Efficient Quantum Computing—and pronounced “seek”—is using to achieve this computational dream... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
the world? And how do we make sure that our students, when they graduate, are equipped to operate in a global world?” Out of that questioning emerged a strategy that remains unique among US business schools. Beginning in the mid-1990s,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry Wilson (MBA 1999), who had... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Unlike the industry-standard AC power grid — the “local” — Clean Line’s system uses direct-current technology, which transports energy long distances with less energy loss. Wind power is cheap to produce — as low as 5 cents per... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor
president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded with several MIT professors in 1984. A former Boston Consulting Group project manager, he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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Learning from the Past
works know themselves less well than they might, and to their cost." Strassler credits his successful business career with giving him the time and wherewithal to undertake and finance the project. In 1963, he and his associates took over the management of an ailing... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
enterprises have long held a special place in society, and none more so than Mitsubishi. Its origin goes back to the 1870s, when three sailing ships transported raw materials to Japanese manufacturers and... View Details