Manufacturing Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2013
Case

Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (A)

By: Willy Shih and Ying Zhou

Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and the technical project lead, and the (B) case describes the perspective of a senior manager who is the head of the New... View Details

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01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

ago, Nohria made advancement of the School’s international strategy one of his top five priorities. “Today, HBS would be derelict in its mission if it weren’t preparing the leaders it educates to succeed in a global context,” says Nohria.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Feb 2019
News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

Talk to Tony O. Elumelu (AMP 166, 2004) for more than a few minutes and you are sure to hear about “Africapitalism.” The Nigerian businessman and philanthropist coined the term in 2010 to describe the investment strategy that has shaped... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

or adaptive organism, there are changes. Karl Marx, while he was wrong about almost everything, was actually right on at least one thing — the labor theory of value. What matters most is the people in your company, more than the capital, the technologies, or the View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

above are numerous in a channel that includes, in your comments, food and tobacco producers of unhealthy products (Christy Hitchens, Tom Dolembo); lifestyle equipment and service providers; developers and manufacturers of high-cost... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

Original Article About fifteen years ago, an academic friend from France noticed the impact of Minitel on French consumer behavior. He noted that consumers were increasingly using the pathbreaking electronic directory created by France Telecom to drive, not respond to,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

Dewey, wait for the scheduled auction with several interested publishers, or pull out of the race? Allows for an in-depth examination of new-product acquisition, development, and launch strategies in the context of the book publishing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

size fits all' legislation." All of this will take time. Adrian Gonzalez commented that "There's a limit to what can be accomplished ... because today's products, manufacturing processes, and supply chains were not designed with... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

and has been operational now for just over a year. The Israeli side is contributing expertise, access to export markets, and design capabilities; the Jordanian side provides production management and manufacturing prowess. The venture... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

11 Sep 2012
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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

03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

Global Growing Challenges Juan Alcácer and John LeitaoHarvard Business School Case 711-411 In 2010, Logoplaste, a top 10 manufacturer of rigid plastic containers, was debating a more dramatic expansion View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

president and CEO of grocery chain Stop & Shop. In 2007, certain brands of pet food manufactured in China and sold at several locations were found to be contaminated with melamine. Many pets became sick, and some even died. Through it... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail

2010
Working Paper

The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries

By: Regina Abrami and Yu Zheng

Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through antidumping measures? We argue that the patterning of antidumping actions is best explained in terms of the political economy of economic restructuring in... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Price; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China

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23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

authors discuss how these new digital disruptors allow consumers to benefit from one activity (e.g., watching shows) without incurring the cost of the other (e.g., watching ads) and offer strategies for established businesses to respond... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

firms in the US, why have only 140 companies been able to exceed the $100 million mark? What do these firms do differently from the rest? Do they have a better strategy or talent? Are they simply beneficiaries of good fortune? While each... View Details

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/217069-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-001 Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman