Just-in-time - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2022
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Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

30 Jan 2022
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From Just-In-Time To Just-In-Case: Is Excess And Obsolete Next?

01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

be available on a just-in-time basis. HBS Working Knowledge accomplishes that. The broad range of business information it offers brings together the intellectual capital of the School and the perspectives of top executives to provide a... View Details

08 Sep 2020
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Creating More Resilient Supply Chains

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

saturated with outdated, overpriced product. (Ironically, overcapacity can still be found in industries that use innovations such as just-in-time manufacturing techniques, which theoretically should help keep inventories low.) "Excess... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Feb 2001
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HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology

ranging from individualized online offerings to comprehensive "suites" of courses that utilize a variety of media, as well as participating faculty and live interactive activities. Emphasizing critical management skills in a just-in-time... View Details

Keywords: HBSi; HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way

technical training for its long-tenured tool-and-die professionals. “We are now a core group, and for anything beyond that we bring in people on a project and per-hour basis,” Chirchirillo explains. “We are doing more just-in-time work;... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

many firms that were making other products. PS: As you well know, one thing that’s been drilled into the head of every business in the world, including health care businesses, is this notion of just-in-time inventory, and we’ve all worked... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies

machine-learning algorithms running on massive on-demand cloud-computing platforms like Amazon Web Services. At the same time, a trifecta of trends—namely, the widespread reliance on just-in-time inventory management; the ongoing... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

supply-chain management, turning to outsourcing for almost every component used on the assembly line and relying on just-in-time deliveries several times a day. "We went through the difficult process of winnowing our major suppliers from... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

just-in-time course materials, such as the Obama administration’s home foreclosure proposals, so we could look at very current issues. We are enthused about teaching it again this year, and we’re working on new materials. Where do you go... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

Valley or Shenzhen. And so this innovation movement of automobile production internationalized—but so did best practice. Think of things like just-in-time manufacturing that emanated out of Japan and is now standard practice around the... View Details

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