Manufacturing, Petrochemicals, Diversified - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2021
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Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

dean for Culture and Community at HBS and Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, are available for free. These materials and a free PDF of another written case, “Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States,” coauthored by... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

12 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

operations back from China. The authors examine the effects of these variables between 2017 and 2022, a tumultuous period that put stress on the global economic system. They crunch product-level trade statistics from United Nations Comtrade, as well as information on... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

May 2008 (Revised December 2010)
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Chi Mei Optoelectronics

By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Ho Howard Yu

Chi Mei is a Taiwanese industrial group that makes a major diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Supply Chain; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China; South Korea; Taiwan

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20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

Company, which began by importing and exporting into West Africa but, beginning in the 1950s, turned to investing heavily in local manufacturing, especially brewing and textiles. The United Africa Company employed around 70,000 people in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Fund was established through the generosity of Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982) in honor of his 25th Reunion. Finnegan is co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity investment firm he cofounded in 1992. The company focuses on a number of industries including View Details

17 Jan 2023
In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

training program at the venerable Ayala Corporation—the largest and most widely diversified conglomerate in the Philippines—and attending HBS, he accepted a short-term position at Ayala and never left. Today, Zobel embraces his role as... View Details

Adib AlZamil

Keywords: Manufacturing, Petrochemicals, Diversified

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

and Kit - 12. Daphne Dufresne (MBA 1999), RLJ Equity Partners Daphne Dufresne is a Principal at Weston Presidio Capital, a diversified venture capital firm with over $2.3 billion in assets under management. With offices in San Francisco,... View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

our growth strategy to diversify the business portfolio. One of my key responsibilities is to ensure that everything we do has a well-documented system and process. A day at work could involve any or all of the activities I mentioned... View Details

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Trade Catalog Collection | Baker Library

Trade Catalog Collection Columbia bicycles / Pope Manufacturing Company. Boston, Mass.: Pope Manufacturing Co., 1895. Special Collections & Archives has a rich and diversified collection of trade catalogs covering a wide array of subject... View Details

13 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

The manufacturing sector is one that encompasses many different facets including highly diversified manufacturing, aerospace and defense, transportation, and airlines. As such, students interested in the... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Research Links - The Art of American Advertising

has a remarkably rich and diversified collection of trade catalogs covering a wide array of subject areas, including agriculture, textile manufacturing, hardware and machine tools, railroads, automobiles,... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the firm was able to become a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

like other Marwari, were traders who after World War I transitioned into manufacturing, including sugar manufacturing and steel rolling. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/807028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

in terms of price and cutting edge products. Should they outsource some of their production to Eastern Europe? Market their products to new customers like non-governmental organizations? Diversify into new shelter product areas? So far... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

of resumes. Experienced eyes can point out immediate red flags and give you specific areas you may want to probe for a particular candidate. Invite an investor to help diversify an otherwise homogeneous interview team. This can be a game... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

$200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in that it had a strictly commercial orientation and market-driven... View Details