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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
lightweight containers they can easily carry around with them. No wonder that Mixon points to new product development as a cornerstone of Invacare's success. Since he combined $10,000 of his own money with bank loans, a factory... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
Courtesy Gorick Ng Courtesy Gorick Ng A first-generation college student and professional, Gorick Ng became a self-taught master of trial and error from an early age. When he was 14, his mother—a single parent—lost her job at a sewing-machine View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
all over the world. By 1970, we had a factory in Holland serving Europe. In 1971, we started assembly plants in Australia and Japan.” He visited more than 50 countries, including many in the Middle East to take advantage of the oil boom.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
help when building a new factory or rebuilding after a natural disaster. Mills recognizes the same determination, creativity, and sense of community that have always impressed her in working with owners of small and growing businesses.... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
leader. I traveled a lot with my father as he was starting manufacturing plants all over the country. Some years later we would go back and visit, and I saw the extraordinary impact that business could have on society. In places where there was nothing, View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
factories that produce fertilizer, to investors like Masha working directly with farmers, to retail-focused suppliers rebuilding local appetite for food grown in their country. Universal among these agribusiness entrepreneurs is a core... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devised to facilitate factory work in the last century. The term “artful making” was inspired by the collaborative successes that creative artists regularly achieve without plotting a detailed set of objectives in advance. The book... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
engineers should consider for implementing practical, optimized and reliable ethernet/IP control networks on the factory floor. In this unique book, you’ll find the 12 specific strategies Gary Workman used at GM, and a no-holds barred,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
opening our first factory in the US and we are close on our second. All of our major growth plans are around renewables. We just can’t move fast enough. My sense is, the IRA will push us over the edge here in the US, and we will enter an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
rigorous research in areas with a clear connection to practice. For example, to study the conditions under which workplace transparency improves performance, Bernstein embedded Harvard undergrads on production lines at a Chinese mobile devices View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
introduces his famous term “creative destruction”: “The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organized development from the craft shop and factory to giant concerns illustrate the same process of industrial mutation —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Catalyst Award honors innovative company initiatives that benefit women. Can you describe a recent winner? We had four winners this year, each with proven, measurable outcomes. Campbell Soup’s program encompassed everyone from the C-suite to the View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
sophisticated bells and whistles of contemporary marketing. Macondo has been eclipsed by a proliferation of gleaming office towers and high-tech factories in some of the world's greatest cities. Yet Latin Americans will tell you that amid... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
jet-powered airliners. The growing requirement for more factory space was fueled by new models and a surging worldwide demand for air travel. Massive construction projects were launched, including a new View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
has converted part of her luxury accessory company's factory and is leading other New York City leather goods and apparel factories to produce 30-50,000 masks per week for Weill Cornell and other hospitals... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
factory production to aid victims. It has also sheltered more than 3.000 people in its network of factories, farms, and distribution centers, while its employees have taken part in search and rescue efforts. “In the long term, many... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
relocations. The hospital also introduces a patient safety alert system as a direct result of seeing the andon cord in action during a Toyota factory visit in Japan. As a result of such changes, the hospital experiences a 44 percent gain... View Details