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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

invented an entirely new one. While that meant restarting their R&D efforts, it also means that they now own the IP. Finally, after navigating pandemic-related setbacks to their product-testing and manufacturing plans, the company was... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Forward Thinking

There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Strange Bedfellows

given the loss of tax revenues, but why is the SEC interested? First, this dual-reporting system creates significant confusion. In effect, one-third of costs (the tax claim on pretax profits) is not reported clearly to investors. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

A Boomtown's Echo

in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful... View Details
Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

next twenty years than it was for the past twenty. World demand for energy is only going to grow. And whether the market price rises or falls, the costs of environmental degradation and national security, two critical externalities, will... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 1997
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Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

these ventures is competitive advantage and profit. For Israeli companies, cooperation can open up new markets, provide cost-effective outsourcing opportunities, and significantly lower the costs of production, which is especially... View Details
Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 2000
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Q&A: Andrew Kendall

As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

who can really afford credits [to offset emissions] are funds like Frontier and the Microsofts of the world—organizations that want to encourage growth and development. But costs will naturally come down over time, the way most industrial... View Details
Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge
  • 01 Apr 1998
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Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

other manufacturers have abandoned it to seek cheaper labor elsewhere. Since corporations are the center of wealth and power in this country, they are the only ones that can make a difference in addressing poverty and unemployment."... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 09 Mar 2021
  • News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Island. You can’t go into a medical office in the state without meeting a CCRI graduate who’s your nurse, your ultrasound tech, or your dental hygienist. And there’s a demand for still more IT support analysts, cybersecurity professionals, and people who know how to do... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

was through exporting manufactured goods to the insatiably spendthrift U.S. consumer. To ensure that those exports were irresistibly cheap, China had to fight the tendency for the Chinese currency to strengthen against the dollar by... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

talks to Dionisio Garza Sada (MBA ’08), program manager for autoparts manufacturer Nemak. Photographs by Selma Fernandez & Marcela Taboada There are no cold calls here. No laptops, or blackboards, or Sky Deck. Thousands of miles from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Jun 1996
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Reinventing Marketing

Rounding out Marketing's agenda are multifaceted research projects. Professor Walter J. Salmon is looking at the costs and benefits of product variety for retailers and manufacturers as part of a joint... View Details
Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; Illustration by Peter Hoey
  • 01 Feb 2000
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Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority

Headed by newly elected president Maryann Pernorio (MBA '90), HBSA-SNE invites student clubs - such as the Manufacturing & Technology Management Club (MTM) - to attend dinner programs that have included speakers such as John Welch,... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
  • 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

you never have it figured out. Unlike other industries, you can't manufacture endless quantities of the product on a predictable cost curve." As the hunt for oil goes on, even optimists agree that the search... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation

thought it would allow me to have a direct impact for a while.” The interesting business model that attracted Gibbons to NIB was also the organization’s weak point only a few years earlier. As a nonprofit organization established by the federal government to provide... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

time, and expensive because it used diesel, which costs a whole lot and was hard for him to get. Morrell: A visiting dignitary flipped a switch to turn on the local grid. Poindexter: So we get to the chief's house, the soccer match is... View Details
  • 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

fixation of broken bones had been produced in Switzerland by a separate manufacturing company and distributed in the United States. Wyss undertook a vigorous change of direction, first building a View Details
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