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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
featured a three-element 135 mm f/11 lens and shutter speeds from 1/8th to 1/60th of a second with an optical viewfinder that folded out. 72 A single adjustment to the lens opening automatically set the shutter speed. In 1952, in addition... View Details
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Janice Hammond Business Analytics Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community at Harvard... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
credits for electric vehicle purchases, provided the vehicles and batteries are manufactured in North America.[70] This and green manufacturing credits have led to Hyundai Motor Group to invest $4-5 billion... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
founded by two Swedish entrepreneurs in 2016 to address climate change and bring electric battery manufacturing to Europe. The company successfully built a “gigafactory” near the Arctic Circle and was soon on track to become one of the... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
speculates, apprentices are given more discrete tasks that are easier to follow. That doesn’t mean that the latter fields aren’t candidates for apprenticeship, he adds, only that extra care must be taken to provide additional structure.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than a million households; and water and electricity payments for a portion of the population. It also included a financing and guarantee mechanism that would provide View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
benchmarks? Defining what growth means Pisano and colleagues fill that gap in a new paper, Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959—2015, published in the journal Industrial and Corporate Change, the first... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
investments in the portfolios of venture capital firms to study persistence in their performance. Each additional IPO among a VC's first five investments predicted a 13% higher IPO rate for its subsequent 50 investments. Roughly half of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
four to one. When another premium brand lowers its wholesale price in an attempt to stimulate sales, Heublein’s president decides to increase the price of Smirnoff and put the additional revenue into advertising. This case taught me that... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
literature by analyzing all forms of incentive pay for several types of managerial positions and include additional measures of earnings manipulation-end-of-year excess sales and class action litigation-in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)
Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Prior to HBS, I worked as a process engineer for Procter & Gamble and then in engineering and business roles at an early-stage manufacturing data analytics company. I graduated from Duke University with... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
room for improvement” in the process, Buell says. “I’m happy with the car, but it was a roller coaster of emotions going through the experience.” What’s the problem here? The professors agree that the industry has a structural problem: the deep divide between car View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) is executive director of Precision Camshafts Limited, a large precision manufacturing company in Solapur, India, and a partner in MAYU, a luxury goods startup. What’s a... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
of chains in addition to exchanges. This review is designed to provide insight into the challenges that face the emerging national KPD system in the U.S., now five years into its development. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
and revolutionized millions of Americans' lives. Riding the wave of the Model T's success, Ford Motor Company became the undisputed leader of this young market and by the early 1920s, it was producing 60 percent of all the motor vehicles View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
power. Their findings suggest that there is significant heterogeneity in banks’ ability to capture value by manufacturing safe assets. See Mark’s other research here , Stefan’s other research here , and Adi’s other research here . More... View Details
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Connell House | About
its shipyard and manufacturing companies in 1985, Connell became the new entity’s CEO, betting against the emerging consensus that US manufacturing was dead. Over the next 14 years, Connell, the son of Irish... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
incentive pay. We contribute to this literature by analyzing all forms of incentive pay for several types of managerial positions and include additional measures of earnings manipulation-end-of-year excess sales and class action... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
entrepreneur didn’t anticipate the many extra manufacturing steps—and the retooling needed to produce the new product. He wound up going through seven different manufacturers before he found one that could... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Industry Information - Alumni
magazine and Web site has been serving the OEM engineering market since 1929. It provides news, applications, in-depth technical information, new products, and vendor information needed for machine designing. Manufacturing.net In addition... View Details