Publications

Article

The Challenge of Manufacturing Advantage

By: S. C. Wheelwright and H. K. Bowen

Keywords: Problems and Challenges

October 1981
Supplement

Henry Manufacturing Co.: Seating Chart

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

February 1986 (Revised November 1989)
Case

Copeland Corp.: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy--1975-82 (A)

By: David A. Garvin

Describes the evolution of a company's manufacturing strategy over an eight-year period. Copeland had pursued a strategy of building freestanding focused plants devoted to single processes or product lines, and then moving products from the home plant at Sidney, Ohio... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Product; Production; Strategy; Restructuring; Geographic Location; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio

November 1981 (Revised April 1990)
Case

Sanyo Manufacturing Corp.--Forrest City, Arkansas

By: Robert H. Hayes and Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Electronics Industry

March 1979 (Revised January 1983)
Case

Microwave Ovens: The Japanese Manufacturers

December 1987
Supplement

Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (D), Glossary

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Supplements the (A), (B), and (C) cases. A glossary of terms. View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

August 1986 (Revised November 1992)
Case

Bethoney Manufacturing (A) and (B) (Condensed)

By: Michael Beer and Richard E. Walton

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

August 1993 (Revised January 1994)
Case

Prochnik: Privatization of a Polish Clothing Manufacturer

Prochnik was a large state-owned clothing manufacturer located in the textile-production-intensive region of Lodz, Poland. In the early months of economic reform, Prochnik was one of the first five state enterprises to be privatized through initial public offerings and... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Privatization; State Ownership; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Poland

May 1990 (Revised May 1995)
Teaching Note

Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co., Teaching Note

By: Krishna G. Palepu

Teaching Note for (9-187-178). View Details

January 1988
Background Note

Glossary for Manufacturing Cost Accounting Systems

January 1987
Supplement

Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (C), Video

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine

February 1984
Supplement

Dennison Manufacturing Co.: Fastener Division (B)

19 Apr 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing

June 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit

On December 6, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Executive Chairman Mark Liu outlined the company’s ambitious plans to invest $40 billion to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in Phoenix. The event also celebrated the... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitical Units; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan; United States

2012
Working Paper

Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

By: Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R. Kerr

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving... View Details

Keywords: Urban Development; Policy; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Geographic Location; Education; Infrastructure; Manufacturing Industry; India

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September 2002
Case

Align Technology, Inc.: Matching Manufacturing Capacity to Sales Demand

By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan P Groberg

Align Technology is a four-year-old medical products company that has invented a new product requiring new manufacturing processes. Demand for the new product has grown more slowly than initial forecasts predicted, and the cost structure is preventing the company from... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Product; Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing Strategy; Sales; Demand and Consumers; Production; Health Industry

January–February 1994
Article

Beyond World-Class: The New Manufacturing Strategy

By: Robert H. Hayes and G. P. Pisano

Keywords: Production; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

August 1994 (Revised May 2001)
Case

ITT Automotive: Global Manufacturing Strategy (1994)

By: Gary P. Pisano and Sharon L. Rossi

ITT Automotive is in the process of developing a new-generation antilock brake system (ABS), designated the MK-20. The case focuses on the level of automation to be used in the production of this new system, and whether all plants should use the same process... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Innovation Strategy; Production; Product Development; Globalized Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Belgium; Germany; United States

October 1990
Case

Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: Customer Profitability Report

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Banking company noting declining profitability from its traditional lending activities has started to measure the total profitability of its lending relationships. A loan pricing model estimates the profit and return-on-equity from commercial loans. Additional work was... View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Revenue; Commercial Banking; Banks and Banking; Customer Value and Value Chain; Banking Industry