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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
now achieve a 30 percent reduction in water usage. Sensors conserve electricity by automatically reducing interior lighting according to the amount of sunlight in a room. New bureaus, desks, and bookshelves were constructed from Plyboo, a bamboo View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
data from 111 workers — college students who labored in service jobs — the pair measured job satisfaction and its relationship to whether workers were being asked to hide or exaggerate emotions. Their study, “A Longitudinal Analysis of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
Instilling Production with Principles Instilling Production with Principles Áslaug Magnúsdóttir Customizing Couture Online Customizing Couture Online Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a beauty products division. But... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
Throughout his career, Kuhns says, he has never forgotten an exchange that took place in his first-year MBA production course taught by Professor John Bishop. In response to a student whose answer to a question had clearly missed the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Good people are essential for success. Keep the product and the process simple. Deliver the most reliable service at the lowest cost. Invest the time to connect with employees and customers. These are the basic tenets fueling the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
purchase monthly shares by weight, rather than à la carte, resulting in a fulfillment process that is “relatively complex and pretty unique,” Cummings says. Every order—with 5 to 30 items, selected from 100 products stacked on a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
production of a commodity that most Indians needed, I didn't mind." Bajaj's antiestablishment views prevailed, and by the beginning of the 1980s, Bajaj Auto had increased its annual production to 172,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
they “enjoyed eating in exotic surroundings but were deeply mistrustful of exotic foods.” He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
for only about one in 10 American jobs. A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
consume. + ONLINE Isn’t it likely that the domestic need and want for better health care, education, water, and other basics—all across the socioeconomic spectrum—will drive continued dramatic growth in China? Is it a question of how well the economy can retool to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
the platforms and products that incorporate them—could be profitably applied to everything from artificial intelligence to smart devices. “There’s a whole host of technologies that we could bring these frameworks to bear on,” Barrera... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
hire ex-convicts. And so after their apprenticeships almost all of them are placed in jobs. And after a year and a half or two, these women come out and they are productive citizens rather than people who have been in jail for two for two... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
companies out there in the world, whether or not they’re in the diamond industry.” For Aether, that means vertical integration, including the production of on-site wind and solar energy. And it means finding responsible partners such as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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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,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2019
- News
A Home for Startups
age groups, because they all want to come and collaborate. Younger people can learn from the experiences of the older people and vice versa. “I think one thing that I took away from my business school experience was customer-centricity––to rally create a View Details
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
helped edit his dissertation, “World War II Manpower Mobilization and Utilization in a Local Labor Market.” “His sentences sometimes ran on and on in the Germanic way, so I would tighten them up a bit,” she remembers. In a tough job... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- News
Acting Naturally
Karina Birch (OPM 49, 2017) is CEO of Rocky Mountain Soap Company, based in Alberta, Canada. In this interview, she explains how the mission, culture, and products of her company are blended together. “I was 24 years old and right out of... View Details