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  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Guitar Hero

As any music industry executive will tell you, rock-and-roll drives the business. And as any ten-year-old with a boom box knows, the guitar rules rock. So when it comes to pop music's signature instrument, even though he may lack flashy... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 07 Nov 2024
  • Blog Post

Meet the Aerospace & Defense Club

Co-Presidents Sara Ballantyne: sballantyne@mba2025.hbs.edu Sara is an MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences dual degree candidate interested in the future of the aviation and space industries, from manufacturing to sustainability to novel... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

now give to the overall benefits of globalization. As practiced today, Ricardo's classic system results in win-win exchanges when both trading partners are either (1) industrialized nations with modern impulse/check/balance governments,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Short Takes

Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Great Priority Reset

1998), CEO of the global airports and travel retail group daa plc since 2017. (He starts a new role as CEO of UK-based food manufacturer Greencore this fall.) This idea of “travel with intention” is a key trend in the View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work

entries in Nathaniel Chamberlain’s account book, this glimpse into 18th-century American domestic life is one of hundreds of stories about women and work that is surfacing thanks to a new initiative at Baker Library. The project, called “Unheard Voices: American Women... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Professor Elton Mayo; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence From the late 1990s to 2006/2007, Samsung Electronics moved from one of 170 TV manufacturers to gain dominant TV market share year over year from 2007 to 2013. As digital technologies increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2025
  • Module Note

Supply and Demand for Strategists

By: Quan Le
This module note introduces students to the foundational microeconomic principles of supply and demand. It uses the example of an aluminum plant (specifically, production quantity and shutdown decisions) to discuss short-run vs. long-run decisions, marginal costs, sunk... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Cost of Capital; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Making; Decisions; Demand and Consumers; Economics; Economic Systems; For-Profit Firms; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Markets; Metals and Minerals; Microeconomics; Price; Revenue; Strategy; Supply and Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    William B. Bell

    Bell diversified American Cyanamid, developing the company into the 5th largest producer of chemicals in the U.S., manufacturing over 5,000 products. Bell developed new processes for the commercial production of prussiate of soda,... View Details
    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
    • Web

    Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

    change ingrained habits and emerge as industry leaders. One such firm was the renowned Waltham Watch Company, which pioneered the production of watches from interchangeable parts. Like all manufacturers of... View Details
    • 13 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 13

    Abstract This paper empirically investigates how market leadership influences firm propensity to adopt new business process innovations. Using a unique data set spanning roughly 35,000 plants in 86 U.S. manufacturing industries, I study... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Herbert H. Dow

      Dow Chemicals began by producing bleaching powder as its main product. Through Dow’s inventiveness, Dow Chemical expanded dramatically, especially with the discovery of many uses for brine. Dow manufactured insecticides, oxychloride for... View Details
      Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
      • Web

      Europe’s green transition | Institute for Business in Global Society

      Roundtable in Paris. Discover how European firms are leading climate action Learn key insights on climate innovation and how business leaders are reshaping industries for a sustainable future . Read the full report - PDF A new world of... View Details
      • 19 Feb 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 19

      Group had transformed itself in two decades from a small welding material factory in 1989 to a leading global construction equipment manufacturer with 5 industrial parks in China; 5 R&D and View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        Thomas W. Mastin

        Mastin was instrumental in the development and commercialization of many of Lubrizol’s products, the world’s largest manufacturer of chemical additives for lubricants. Mastin was a published chemist who held over 20 patents for new... View Details
        Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
        • 01 Jun 2017
        • News

        Streamlining the Supermarket

        whom he’d known since high school. They were equally intrigued. “We thought, why don’t we use that technology to disrupt the grocery industry by bringing the same type of efficiencies to the supermarket?” Aguerrevere says. Last November,... View Details
        Keywords: Francis Storrs
        • 31 Jul 2018
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

        of Manufacturing Clusters By: Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract—Over the past two decades, the greater prevalence of global supply chains has had contrasting effects on Western manufacturing... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 17 Oct 2016
        • HBS Case

        Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

        farmers, academics, policy makers, and social service organizations. “We’re seeing a movement to rethink what we are doing as a food industry and as consumers,” says José Alvarez, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who was once... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
        • 06 Apr 2023
        • Blog Post

        Circularity in Denmark

        our first visit, Sr. Director of Technology Soren Kristiansen walked us through the LEGO Group’s efforts to develop the next generation of blocks. Their team is working in parallel on bio-based and recycled plastics, iterating on formulation and View Details

          Pierre S. du Pont

          per month to 1 million pounds per day. duPont manufactured close to 1.5 billion pounds of military explosives during the war, and employed a high of 86,000 workers. In the process, duPont totally reorganized the explosives industry. View Details
          Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial