Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

Mark Hopkins earned engineering degrees from Cornell and Stanford and then spent the next twenty-five years deciphering the factors that make some people prosperous, successful and happy After building a leadership career with companies like Hewlett Packard and Emerson Electric, Hopkins founded Peak Industries, a medical device contract manufacturer, (..)

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Contract Manufacturing Leadership Cooper Covey 279

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Investors have long shied away from start-ups making gadgets such as wearable electronics, because of the challenges posed by manufacturing, distribution, inventory, and technical support. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Likewise, companies like PCH International and Dragon Innovation are now available to manage contract manufacturing and otherwise “make manufacturing feel easy” to entrepreneurs or small companies, as noted by The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Mims last year.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

The best CEOs call on their management toolkit to transform sales into a growth engine by focusing on three actions in particular: Crank up the analytics. CEOs at the best companies are willing to roll up their sleeves and attack the details to transform their sales organization. It's not enough to set budgets and set goals.

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CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

But it is realistic to envision the growth of high-value-add, high-skill, high-wage manufacturing industries like the microprocessor and computer-networking businesses that Intel and Cisco launched in the 1980s. Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine.

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Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Thomas Heffner is an engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, a university-affiliated research center that contracts with the Department of Defense. Nine years ago, when Shammy Khan took a job at a contract manufacturer based in Texas, he knew it wasn't the perfect job for him.

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Contract Manufacturing Case Study Delegation Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The resulting challenges may include new contract-manufacturing relationships, which can be a complicated and disorienting process for the uninitiated. telemetry, communications and connectivity protocols, electrical hardware engineering). Engineering. Operations. These may involve new areas for the company (e.g.,

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