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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
customer. ET then went a step further, locating an aluminum extruder in China that would manufacture some of the parts used in the panels. “We ship in 48 hours from our Singapore partner’s warehouse to the customer’s facility,” Sharpe... View Details
- 20 May 2022
- News
Guiding Finance: China’s Strategy for Funding Advanced Manufacturing
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Cheese Whiz
At Specialty Cheese Co. in Reeseville, Wisconsin, founder Paul Scharfman (MBA 1979) heads up a company that makes one of the state’s best-known exports: cheese. But as its name suggests, Specialty’s 250 employees manufacture products more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Returning to the Roots
the framework to see that very clearly.” Maison Latour wines have been enjoyed over the centuries by members of the court of Bavaria and guests of the Paris Ritz, in addition to State dinners with US Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel and coal foundries to... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
under management. Given Cronin's background, it's not surprising that the WP portfolio favors traditional industrial and service companies that are strong on business fundamentals. Examples include Herald Media (publisher of the newspaper Cronin used to deliver),... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
its merchant banking activities, Stern, with several of his colleagues, founded The Cypress Group, a private firm that makes equity investments and now manages two funds aggregating $3.5 billion of capital. In addition to his... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
puts Brazil squarely on the stage as a global player, thanks to André's commitment." In addition to the Esteves gift, fellow Brazilian businessman and philanthropist Jorge Paulo Lemann, a 1961 graduate of Harvard College, made a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
destined to succeed his father, William R. Timken Jr. (MBA 1962), at the helm of The Timken Company, the Canton, Ohio–based multinational manufacturing firm. Indeed, Kurt worked at Timken for five years before HBS, followed by three years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
marketplace differently. Monotype got its name from the Lanston Monotype Machine Company, a printing machine manufacturer and type foundry in Philadelphia, established in 1887. Today, in addition to the... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he purchased Beatty Brothers, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
not just suppliers of advanced materials, production equipment, and components, but also R&D know-how, advanced process development and engineering skills, and manufacturing competencies. Making matters even worse is something that has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
manufactured goods go to waste in the production process, Philip Behn says, because items come out too thick, too thin, or otherwise not perfect. “So we put our own private label on them and now we sell broken pretzel bits.” As much as 15... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
their start-up pitches to a panel of judges in late April. To his surprise, Mahesh, representing the HBS Club of India, took top honors and was awarded a $25,000 cash prize for his plan to manufacture low-cost medical beds for Indian... View Details