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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Come Sail Away
decaying fabric or high-priced designer numbers. Sard addressed that gap by cofounding the brand Tombolo with childhood best friend Chris Galasso, creating unisex “escapewear” described by Forbes as “something your dad’s coolest cousin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
equipment. By 1979, that figure had increased by two orders of magnitude to $217.4 million. Fabrication facilities [“fabs”] were expensive. During the 1970s, the semiconductor industry became capital intensive. View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
greenhouse gas emissions. There’s also rampant waste and pollution involved in making the clothes we wear—two-thirds of which, after being jettisoned from our closets, get tossed into landfills or incinerated. Shifting from that linear economic model—from View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
manufacturing into Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, and China, have been profitable, allowing Ayala to post a 57 percent rise in net income in the first half of 2007. Asiamoney magazine recently named Ayala the best-managed large capitalization... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- News
From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing
an expanded metal wall,” says Jim Knott Sr. (OPM 17, 1991), president and CEO of Riverdale Mills Corporation. In a recent interview with the Voice of America News, Knott noted that Riverdale’s security fencing is already in use along... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
lifelong lessons about personal priorities and career ambitions, humility, and confidence—and the incomparable kinship (and long memories) of sectionmates. “Suzuki Samurai” Suzuki and advertising agency executives are debating the product... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Chirchirillo, “It’s a game-changer. Now we can go from print-to-part faster than anyone in the world.” The coin of the realm: The intricate patterns of metal stampings form the innards of component parts for a variety of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
financing that ranges from micro loans to help home-based businesses buy delivery trucks to sophisticated loans to build factories, she believes the SBA can stimulate "not just initial product creation, but View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
novel, The Brass Cupcake, he wrote, “Today as a writer, I am a small businessman in a highly competitive field, fabricating a product for sale in a buyers’ market, and required to establish my own... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
supply chain. The gowns were produced by a tight circle of manufacturers that had begun to shut down as a result of COVID-19. “The system works very well when the demand is stable,” notes Hanazawa. It was clear, however, that the supply... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
Technologies / Opflex Solutions is a Cape Cod, Massachusetts-based, environmentally responsible manufacturer of low-carbon impact foams for a variety of uses. Opflex, a reusable foam that is biodegradable, polymeric low density, and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
Government Manufacturing Emergency Response Team (M-ERT) to determine what Lovepop could produce from among the list of PPE needed—N95 respirators, surgical masks, face shields, gowns, hoods, coveralls, and hospital beds—and to assist... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) had a tough act to follow when he took over as GE chairman and CEO in September 2001 from the legendary Jack Welch. Ever since, Immelt has been on a mission to transform the $152 billion industrial and finance behemoth from one famously... View Details
Keywords: GE; General Electric; Jack Welch; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
says. To that end, Clean Line has committed to buying from suppliers located near the lines and to building converter stations, the pickup points for the energy, in order to create jobs locally. — SA Window on a Greener World SOLADIGM A Clear View: At Soladigm, CEO Rao... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda and worked with him on various ventures. We found that there was a big opportunity in the intimates industry, which is what eventually led to the launch of Adore Me." How did you come up with the idea? "My... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
private-label manufacturing of quality products. “Up to now, we haven’t been able to service the small customers, such as country clubs, in a cost-effective way,” says Fung. But with the Internet, the company can provide “limited... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
knitted into the fabric of how people buy and sell goods and services." Skeptics might disagree with such a sweeping declaration, but they would be hard-pressed to disregard TIBCO Software's growth since its founding in 1996. Total... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the world’s largest manufacturer of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
textile work. A few collections — such as the 2,500-volume R.G. Dun & Co. credit report collection and the detailed productivity studies from Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne, Illinois, plant — were known by library staff and scholars... View Details