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13 Mar 2018
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Manufacturing a Renaissance in the Deep South

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Over the last 10 years, advanced manufacturing has blossomed in a rural pocket of Mississippi. Led by Dean Nitin Nohria and Senior Associate Dean for Research Jan Rivkin, sixteen HBS faculty traveled there together last fall for a closer look. Here is the latest installment of the Up Close series, featuring the day-to-day work of the School and the people who do it.

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