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- 01 Oct 1971
- Conference Presentation
La Modernizacion de la Produccion y los Ajustes en el Sistema de Mercadea: El Caso de la Industria Arrocera Nicaraguense
By: James E. Austin
- April 1971 (Revised April 1983)
- Case
General Electric Co.--1970
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "General Electric Co.--1970." Harvard Business School Case 271-175, April 1971. (Revised April 1983.)
- January 1971 (Revised March 1972)
- Case
Holiday Greetings, Inc.
By: Fred K. Foulkes and William E. Fruhan Jr.
Keywords:
Consumer Products Industry
Foulkes, Fred K., and William E. Fruhan Jr. "Holiday Greetings, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 271-080, January 1971. (Revised March 1972.)
- December 1970 (Revised April 1983)
- Case
Product Management at United Brands
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Lorsch, Jay W. "Product Management at United Brands." Harvard Business School Case 471-049, December 1970. (Revised April 1983.)
- December 1970 (Revised May 1983)
- Case
David Alpert (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Interpersonal day-to-day dealings of a product manager with others in the division, including his comments on these dealings.
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Lorsch, Jay W. "David Alpert (A)." Harvard Business School Case 471-050, December 1970. (Revised May 1983.)
- March 1969 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
Industrial Products, Inc.
By: Joseph L. Bower and John W. Rosenblum
Involves the decision of whether to construct a new plant in another part of the country for a line of fire protection equipment. Capital funds set aside for the construction are blocked by Fireguard's continued record of substantial operating losses and divisional...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Capital;
Construction;
Financing and Loans;
Expansion;
Business Earnings;
Markets;
Product;
Manufacturing Industry
Bower, Joseph L., and John W. Rosenblum. "Industrial Products, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 369-019, March 1969. (Revised January 2000.)
- February 1969
- Article
Test of a Product Cycle Model of International Trade: U.S. Exports of Consumer Durables
By: Louis T Wells Jr
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Test of a Product Cycle Model of International Trade: U.S. Exports of Consumer Durables." Quarterly Journal of Economics 83, no. 1 (February 1969): 152–62. (Also reprinted in Wells, The Product Life Cycle and International Trade.)
- July 1967
- Comment
Comments on the 'Longer Run Pressures of U.S. Manufacturing Subsidiaries in Europe
By: Louis T Wells Jr
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Comments on the 'Longer Run Pressures of U.S. Manufacturing Subsidiaries in Europe." Southern Journal of Business (July 1967).
- 1965
- Book
Product Innovation and Organization
By: J. W. Lorsch
Lorsch, J. W. Product Innovation and Organization. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1965.
- February 1963
- Case
Markham Instrument Co. (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Lorsch, Jay W. "Markham Instrument Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 409-083, February 1963.
- December 1961 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
Plowman Poultry Farm
A poultry farmer wanted to expand production greatly and sought a large extension of his line of credit from his bank in addition to his existing loan on which he had not made payment. The Board of Directors must review a detailed account of events leading to this...
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Keywords:
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Expansion;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financing and Loans;
Commercial Banking;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Hayes, Samuel L., III. "Plowman Poultry Farm." Harvard Business School Case 262-003, December 1961. (Revised January 1994.)
- Research Summary
By: Ashish Nanda
Ashish Nanda's research focuses on ethics and economics of managing
professional service firms.
Nanda is working on a project that studies how management of conflict of interest influences professional identity, the role of professional associations, and the... View Details
- Research Summary
By: Srikant M. Datar
Datar's research interests are in the cost management and management control areas. He
has published his research on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based
competition, new product development, bottleneck management, incentives and
...
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- Article
Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
We study relational contracts among managers using a unique dataset that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which are frequent, often...
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Keywords:
Implicit Contracts;
Productivity;
Misallocation;
Absenteeism;
Supervisors;
Readymade Garments;
Performance Productivity;
Employees;
Relationships;
Fashion Industry;
India
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm." Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming).
- Teaching Interest
Agribusiness Seminar - Executive Education
By: David E. Bell
In the agribusiness industry, every year brings new trends and challenges. While demand continues to grow, consumer needs shift, production challenges increase, and evolving technology impacts every part of the value chain. The complex...
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Building and Managing Product Centric Organizations
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Building and Managing Product Centric Organizations
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Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success
By: Karen Mills
Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech...
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Business and Low Income Sectors: The Creation of Economic and Social Value
By: Michael Chu
In the last three decades, innovative commercial solutions have emerged in developing nations focusing on providing effective responses to the hugely underserved needs of low-income populations, both as consumers as well as active participants in productive value...
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Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles (joint with Fabio Kanczuk)
By: Laura Alfaro
We construct an Overlapping-Generations model where agents vote on whether to open or close the economy to international capital flows. Political decisions are shaped by the risk over capital and labor returns. In an open economy, the capitalists (old) completely hedge...
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