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- 2003
- Article
The "Moralities" of Poaching: Manufacturing Personal Artifacts on the Factory Floor
By: Michel Anteby
Anteby, Michel. The "Moralities" of Poaching: Manufacturing Personal Artifacts on the Factory Floor. Ethnography 4, no. 2 (2003): 217–239.
- December 1983 (Revised July 1988)
- Case
General Electric--Thermocouple Manufacturing (A)
By: David A. Garvin
GE is considering introducing a "just-in-time" production system to reduce inventory in its thermocouple manufacturing area. The case presents students with a description of the present inventory management system, the production process, and the perspectives of... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Time Management; Production; Supply Chain; Perspective; Energy Industry; Technology Industry
Garvin, David A. "General Electric--Thermocouple Manufacturing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 684-040, December 1983. (Revised July 1988.)
- January 2006
- Case
Jack Strang at SequenceLabs
By: Mukti Khaire, John J. Gabarro and Lynda M. Applegate
How can entrepreneur manage his firm if things go wrong despite having a great idea, a solid team, and financial backing? Jack Strang founded a biotech firm with his friend Peter Evans, to develop molecular pathway-based "cures" for metabolic disorders. The idea was... View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
When American companies move pieces of their operations overseas—often because manufacturing and labor costs are much cheaper—they run the risk of moving the expertise, innovation, and new growth... View Details
- September 2009
- Case
Peter Schultz at The Scripps Research Institute
By: H. Kent Bowen, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Courtney Purrington
Peter Schultz, Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, managed an extremely productive lab. This case examines how Schultz recruited, motivated and inspired the students and scientists that worked with him. View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Research and Development; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership Style
Bowen, H. Kent, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld, and Courtney Purrington. "Peter Schultz at The Scripps Research Institute." Harvard Business School Case 910-408, September 2009.
- April 2012 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
HP Labs in Singapore
By: Willy Shih, Pankaj Agarwal and Christine Chi
When HP established a branch of its corporate research lab in Singapore, the government played a key role through its Economic Development Board (EDB). Chris Whitney, the lab's director, sought to generate revenue from the lab's innovations, making it financially... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Development Economics; Government and Politics; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Invention; Revenue; Technology Industry; Singapore
Shih, Willy, Pankaj Agarwal, and Christine Chi. "HP Labs in Singapore." Harvard Business School Case 612-080, April 2012. (Revised June 2012.)
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
to New England. Industry observers thought his proposal for an LNG plant there, small by industry standards, was “totally harebrained,” Shearer recalled, but Trinidadian officials liked it. Three years of contentious negotiations with... View Details
- January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Predictive Biosciences
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Kiron
A small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health Testing and Trials; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and David Kiron. "Predictive Biosciences." Harvard Business School Case 811-015, January 2011. (Revised March 2011.)
- October 1992 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Edward Prewitt
Allied-Signal, Inc., one of the world's oldest chemical companies and today a diversified conglomerate, is liable for clean-up costs of old hazardous waste sites. These costs are substantial: reserves grew to nearly $500 million in 1991. Attempting to avoid further... View Details
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Environmental Sustainability; Programs; Cost Management; Policy; Government Legislation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Governance Compliance; Legal Liability; Chemical Industry; United States; Europe
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Edward Prewitt. "Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk." Harvard Business School Case 793-044, October 1992. (Revised August 1994.)
- December 1999
- Case
Avon Products China (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jennifer Gui
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Ventures; Ethics; Government and Politics; Globalization; Global Strategy; China
Paine, Lynn S., and Jennifer Gui. "Avon Products China (B)." Harvard Business School Case 300-054, December 1999.
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
U.S. hospitals. From smelting plants to accounting offices to hospital pharmacies, he's seen the technique pay off. "If companies learn to treat every problem as an idiosyncrasy and approach solving it as an... View Details
- Article
Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics." Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 105–137.
- May 2013
- Article
Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan
By: Tom Nicholas
Japan's hybrid innovation system during the Meiji era of technological modernization provides a useful laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary... View Details
Keywords: Prizes; Technological Innovation; System; Patents; Knowledge; Value; Cost vs Benefits; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Performance Effectiveness; Japan
Nicholas, Tom. "Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan." International Economic Review 54, no. 2 (May 2013): 575–600.
- 06 Apr 2017
- News
From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing
employs 185 people and has openings for another 35. "Adding people might be a challenge,” Knott said, “but our plant pays a good wage and people, I think, are fairly happy... View Details
- October 2003 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Salick Cardiovascular Centers: Business Plan
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Kaushik Sen, Alex Tkachenko and Carolyn Wolff
A seasoned health services entrepreneur develops a business plan for a cardiovascular-focused factory. Will it work? View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Kaushik Sen, Alex Tkachenko, and Carolyn Wolff. "Salick Cardiovascular Centers: Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 304-007, October 2003. (Revised March 2008.)
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
going to scale back in the U.S. to keep their options open by continuing to operate a plant in America,” he noted. But the damage done by offshoring high-tech manufacturing may be irreversible, he warned. Once factories relocate abroad,... View Details
- January 2025
- Case
U.S. Steel: Proposed Acquisition by Nippon Steel
By: Willy C. Shih
The case setting is the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel, which elicited a great deal of controversy. The real purpose of the case is to look at the history of the American steel industry since World War II and understand how the steel minimill... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Taking That Hill
GM plant in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio, has held senior management positions at GM, TRW, MeadWestvaco, and BorgWarner and currently is a SVP at PPG Industries. Niekamp, who... View Details
- August 2009
- Supplement
The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (CW)
By: Willy C. Shih
When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of production scheduling choices, each of which has unique costs and trade-offs. The case was designed to help students understand job-shop style production and the impact of disruptions and... View Details