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    Heskett Column: Can You Hard-Wire Performance? ADDL RES

     
    5/1/2000
    Articles

    Items marked with the HBS shield () are available online only to HBS alumni subscribers to the eBaker Research Center and to current HBS faculty, students and staff.

    "Going Downstream After Manufacturing Profit," HBS Working Knowledge

    "How GE Locked Up That Boeing Order," Business Week, August 9, 1999

    "Jack Welch, Engine Salesman", Forbes, August 8, 1999

    "GE Wins Exclusive Deal To Power Long-Range 777s," Aviation Week & Space Technology, July 12, 1999

    "Site Unseen: The Brand Suffers The Cost Of Downtime [Ebay]," Internetweek, August 2, 1999

    "eBay Retrenches," InternetWeek, June 17, 1999

    "Coping With An E-Business Emergency," InformationWeek, September 6, 1999

    Books

    At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit, by Thomas F. O'Boyle.
    Knopf, 1999.

    Jack Welch and the GE Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO , by Robert Slater.
    McGraw-Hill, 1999.

    Boeing: The First Century, by Eugene E. Bauer.
    Taba Publishing,, 2000.

    Flying High: The Story of Boeing and the Rise of the Jetliner Industry, by Eugene Rodgers.
    Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996.

    The Man Who Discovered Quality: How W. Edwards Deming Brought the Quality Revolution to America—The Stories of Ford, Xerox, and GM, by Andrea Gabor.
    Penguin USA, 1992.

    Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the Japanese, by David T. Kearns, David A. Nadler.
    HarperCollins, 1998.

    Company / Industry Information

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    General Electric
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    Hoover's Company Capsule

    GE OneSource Company Profile

    Boeing 
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    Hoover's Company Capsule

    Boeing OneSource Company Profile

    Xerox
    Home Page
    Hoover's Company Capsule
    Xerox OneSource Company Profile

    eBay
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    Hoover's Company Capsule

    Ebay OneSource Company Profile

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