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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries...
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Keywords:
Economics;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance Productivity;
Geographic Location;
Motivation and Incentives;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Competition;
Human Capital;
Markets;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Multinational Firms and Management;
India;
Brazil;
United States
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics." Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 105–137.
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
to New England. Industry observers thought his proposal for an LNG plant there, small by industry standards, was “totally harebrained,” Shearer recalled, but Trinidadian officials liked it. Three years of contentious negotiations with...
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- January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Predictive Biosciences
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Kiron
A small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team.
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Testing and Trials;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Development;
Biotechnology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and David Kiron. "Predictive Biosciences." Harvard Business School Case 811-015, January 2011. (Revised March 2011.)
- 06 Apr 2017
- News
From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing
employs 185 people and has openings for another 35. "Adding people might be a challenge,” Knott said, “but our plant pays a good wage and people, I think, are fairly happy...
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- October 1992 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Edward Prewitt
Allied-Signal, Inc., one of the world's oldest chemical companies and today a diversified conglomerate, is liable for clean-up costs of old hazardous waste sites. These costs are substantial: reserves grew to nearly $500 million in 1991. Attempting to avoid further...
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Keywords:
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Environmental Sustainability;
Programs;
Cost Management;
Policy;
Government Legislation;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Governance Compliance;
Legal Liability;
Chemical Industry;
United States;
Europe
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Edward Prewitt. "Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk." Harvard Business School Case 793-044, October 1992. (Revised August 1994.)
- May 2013
- Article
Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan
By: Tom Nicholas
Japan's hybrid innovation system during the Meiji era of technological modernization provides a useful laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary...
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Keywords:
Prizes;
Technological Innovation;
System;
Patents;
Knowledge;
Value;
Cost vs Benefits;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Performance Effectiveness;
Japan
Nicholas, Tom. "Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan." International Economic Review 54, no. 2 (May 2013): 575–600.
- October 2003 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Salick Cardiovascular Centers: Business Plan
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Kaushik Sen, Alex Tkachenko and Carolyn Wolff
A seasoned health services entrepreneur develops a business plan for a cardiovascular-focused factory. Will it work?
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Keywords:
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Medical Specialties;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Kaushik Sen, Alex Tkachenko, and Carolyn Wolff. "Salick Cardiovascular Centers: Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 304-007, October 2003. (Revised March 2008.)
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Taking That Hill
GM plant in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio, has held senior management positions at GM, TRW, MeadWestvaco, and BorgWarner and currently is a SVP at PPG Industries. Niekamp, who...
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- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
going to scale back in the U.S. to keep their options open by continuing to operate a plant in America,” he noted. But the damage done by offshoring high-tech manufacturing may be irreversible, he warned. Once factories relocate abroad,...
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- August 2009
- Supplement
The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (CW)
By: Willy C. Shih
When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of production scheduling choices, each of which has unique costs and trade-offs. The case was designed to help students understand job-shop style production and the impact of disruptions and...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
million in US investor capital, Perkowski launched ASIMCO in 1994, quickly cobbling together a network of far-flung joint-venture factories, each number one or number two in its product category. And in each...
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- January 1990 (Revised February 1990)
- Teaching Note
Sedalia Revisited, Teaching Note
By: Roy D. Shapiro
Teaching Note for (9-687-004).
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Keywords:
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Design;
Quality;
System;
Employees;
Framework;
Competition;
Production;
Strategy
- April 1993 (Revised December 1993)
- Case
NEC
By: Marco Iansiti
Investigates product development practices at NEC. The company provides an intriguing example of how to build capability through a stream of product development projects. Focuses in detail on an engineering group that develops the core component of its line of...
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Product Design;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Information Technology;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco. "NEC." Harvard Business School Case 693-095, April 1993. (Revised December 1993.)
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Sealed Air China (TN)
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
Teaching Note for [308051].
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- May 2010
- Teaching Note
Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company (TN)
Teaching Note for [810105].
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- July 2005
- Teaching Note
Globalizing Consumer Durables: Singer Sewing Machine before 1914 (TN)
Teaching Note to (9-804-001).
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- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Swire Beverages: Implementing CSR in China
By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [410021].
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Keywords:
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Community Relations;
Health;
Organizational Design;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Business Strategy;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Safety;
Natural Environment;
Brands and Branding;
Interests;
Partners and Partnerships;
Food and Beverage Industry;
China
- 19 Aug 2017
- News
Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
As CEO of Landcorps, New Zealand’s largest farming company, Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is a careful observer of food trends. "My job, given that we have got a million acres of land, and that it takes a long time to shift from one land use...
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- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-066 Mohamed Azab and Seha Capital In January 2011, Mohamed Azab, founder and CEO of health care investment firm Seha...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
Bullard, who has clearly earned both the respect and the affection of his employees. The manufacturing plant in Cynthiana is a world away from Marin County, California -- "unreal USA," as Bullard describes...
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Susan Young