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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
to become a center for making mobile phone components and handsets, especially products using CDMA technology, which is widely used in South Korea. Controller board MADE IN CHINA REASON U.S. companies long...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
leadership change that does not rely on Schumpeterian creative destruction: platform envelopment. By leveraging common components and shared user relationships, one platform provider can move into another's...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
instead of bringing us together” (Reuters, December 9, 2009). Immelt went on to say that leaders “share a common responsibility to narrow the gap between the weak and the strong. I have taken on the challenge to increase View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
in different manufacturing facilities. I loved being able to see how something came together from the nuts and bolts into a very tangible product. Learning how to relate to people who are resistant to change...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
and a dryer button to complete the experience. The Japanese company TOTO, founded in 1917, introduced flush toilets at a time when most of the country lacked a sewage system. Today, it produces the world’s leader in the bidet-toilet...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
each faces a distinct set of business and strategy challenges. In the case “A123 Systems,” HBS professor Richard Vietor presents the issues confronting a manufacturer of the complex, evolving technology of...
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- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
an electric utility was actually looking forward to deregulation as a means of unfreezing a tradition-bound monopoly that was not adequately preparing for a more competitive future. But deregulation came slower than he anticipated View Details
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by John P. Kotter
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
(ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
economic system. But what made the U.S. unique was the scale of American firms that were founded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These massive manufacturing concerns, which produced...
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by Laura Linard
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
true for the “green economy” movement: aged or unused factories in the Midwest being refurbished and turned into solar energy manufacturing plants. But Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) is really making it happen, the...
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- 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
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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
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
begin with consumer electronics. That industry began with radio. Two enterprises commercialized, that is, brought the technology into public use: Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading U.S. electrical...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
Business Review, how the United States has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. These include the batteries that power electric View Details
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Erdin Beshimov, Jutta Friedrichs, Nathan Trujillo Business Track Runner-Up Ubiquitous Energy distributes electricity to “off-grid” communities worldwide via low-cost paper solar panels that are easy to use View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
Your research examines industries that once seemed doomed but have experienced a comeback. How does this happen? I did my dissertation work on the Swiss watch industry, and I looked at what it takes for a technology to reemerge. For over...
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Uncas A. Whitaker
Whitaker built the world’s largest manufacturer of electrical devices and connectors. His company was instrumental in the development of miniature View Details
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Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
to implement innovative, money-saving measures, such as generating electricity via hydropower, recirculating heat from manufacturing processes to warm the factory complex, and...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
corporations—is a clear focus on longevity and the future. As an example, Shih cites ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer of professional motion picture equipment, which...
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