Manufacturing Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

I joined a section of MBA candidates representing a variety of industries including corporate strategy, manufacturing operations, and private equity. Every day, the case method demanded an extensive level of preparation in advance of the... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

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 View Details

07 Nov 2007
Op-Ed

How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

production delays (the Airbus 380 is two years behind schedule) and customers know this when they place their orders. They will simply operate their existing 747s and 777s a little longer. In addition, no airline manufacturer ever wants... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and compulsory licensing (requiring patent holders to allow others to View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

01 Jun 2013
News

Brick by Brick

of quality creative play laid out by its founders. Putting parameters on how people innovate had the paradoxical effect of making them better at it. Knudstorp also did away with many of the unique brick components added during Plougmann's tenure, and eventually decided... View Details

Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Aug 2001
News

Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

had to undertake a complete transformation of how Merck operates," he said, outlining strategies that included stepping up resources devoted to scientific research and marketing, integrating divisions of the company, and heading off... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by operational and View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

manufacturing businesses. After describing the nitty-gritty details of scraping together the firm's first purchase in a post-September 11th economy, Williams highlighted a few key takeaways for aspiring entrepreneurs: "In a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

and external agglomeration economies have separate, positive impacts on location, with relevant differences by activity; (2) internal economies of agglomeration arise within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities (e.g., between View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

When I graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a degree in Electrical Engineering, I knew that I wanted to pursue an MBA in the future. I worked in a technical role as a Manufacturing Engineer at Procter & Gamble, and... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

initial revenue push, but the critical move might be to redefine Gazelle around a model of exchanging a product for cash and then extending more product lines. That could lead to relationships with vendors, retailers, and manufacturers... View Details

Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Telecommunications; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Retail Trade

03 Feb 2021
News

Power Play

contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

31 Jan 2022
News

Michael Trejo Brings Business Back to the Valley of the Sun

A recent article in Hispanic Executive profiles Michael Trejo (MBA 2013), who left a career in finance to return to his native Arizona and help grow a local business. As the article notes, his return was inevitable. “I always planned to leave the state for ten years to... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Manufacturing

06 Jul 2015
News

Lights! Camera... Market!

In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town, one boy dreams of saving enough... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

strategy and projects for CarbonCapture, Inc. She is currently overseeing the development of Project Bison, a planned direct air capture (DAC) facility in southwest Wyoming. Meghan Kenny (MBA 2019) is the director of View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even... View Details

July 1996 (Revised June 1998)
Case

Gillette Indonesia

By: John A. Quelch

The country manager of Gillette Indonesia is reviewing his 1996 marketing plan and considering whether the pace of market development and mix of product sales can be impacted by the level and type of Gillette expenditures in the market. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Marketing; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Indonesia

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14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

the strong hardware and manufacturing bias and hierarchical structures of Japan's computer and electronics firms is largely responsible for the virtual non-existence of a standalone software sector. Second, even when the vertical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative

engineer at Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. I loved my time there and am proud that I played a small role in helping drive the automotive industry towards electrification. Most importantly, I learned about... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations

Recommended by Strategy consultant Vivek Ravishanker (MBA 2012) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight Knight on the idea that became Nike: “That morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t... View Details

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