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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
when firms are doing market testing and thinking about how price decisions will affect different types of consumers, including those who actually show up in the store. Gourville: I also understand why manufacturers do it. Their View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
manufacturers ready to build the electric trucks to incorporate that tech, as well as a scalable market strategy. That strategy depends on TuSimple’s Autonomous Freight Network, the world’s first, which Lu likens to a railroad network of...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
plan for rapid growth. Syrup raised $1 million in a preseed round and enrolled seven brands, retailers, and manufacturers that use the tool on a weekly basis and implement the inventory suggestions it offers. To date, Theuerkauf says,...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
competition better than most. When asked how his $20 million, 100-employee operation has maintained its foothold when other small US manufacturers have faltered, Knott responds pointedly, “We keep our costs...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
however, the low cost of natural gas is currently making gas-fueled turbines more competitive than those run by batteries. Even so, history has shown that energy prices can shift quickly. However it chooses to focus its resources, A123...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
take advantage of the Motor City’s skilled-labor and manufacturing expertise, design sophistication, and transportation infrastructure. For a time Kirlin created handcrafted chandeliers — said to cost twice...
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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 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...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
industry, Behn says. “We know that nature doesn’t produce perfectly homogenous output,” he says. “The variability is normal, and it’s actually endearing.” It’s also less costly. Imperfect fruit and vegetables cost about 30 percent less...
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- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
designer. Manufacturing the beds in India keeps costs down, and making them both upgradable and compact gives buyers—Indian health care institutions—the opportunity to increase capacity [more beds in less...
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- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
company Value Retail—and HBS alumni are the founders, chairmen, and CEOs of some of the sector’s hottest properties, from textile manufacturing leader Esquel Group to DIY makeup startup Mink. The business minds are suddenly as influential...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
to reduce our costs through lean manufacturing and automation so we could get investors to buy into the business. It also required salesmanship to get people interested in the equine business, which is not...
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- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
to landfill waste. What’s worse, each of the 27 million diapers that are tossed every year will take four or five centuries to decompose, due to their petroleum-based materials. Between the lack of performance in the sustainable brands and the environmental View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
his position. He threatened to print on the side panel of every container of Dreyer’s ice cream the following message: “Kraft, manufacturer of such quality products as Velveeta, Cheez Whiz, and the like, has come to us after we’ve used...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
becoming even more acute over time.” Beyond answering short-term labor needs, Eckert thinks these kinds of co-bots also have the potential to upend traditional factory economics. “For a generation now, you had to go to a low labor cost...
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Dan Morrell
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Appliances division—his destination this morning—has piqued the interest of manufacturers worldwide. There is a long call about a potential new hire. The company, which Rogers cofounded in 2007, has almost doubled in size over the past...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Faculty Research
How to Avoid a Price Increase Manufacturers usually pass on any cost increases in their materials to consumers. The result is often a price increase (gasoline) or, less often, a smaller amount of product at...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
Courtesy Susan Chong The typical wooden shipping pallet, constructed of mixed hardwood, ccan weigh 50 pounds, Susan Chong (OPM 48, 2016) explains. But a pallet made of pine weighs half that, and for businesses air shipping their products, that difference can translate...
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April White;
entrepreneurship;
sustainability;
packaging;
leadership;
women;
Manufacturing