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- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. "It was interesting for us to think about how part of your identity seems to go away as you go through that process." “It was interesting for us to think about how part of your... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
the history of work where the nature of work as we’ve known it has been disrupted, whether we embrace it or not,” says Neeley, author of Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere. “All or nothing is easy, when all are in the office... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- February 2004 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Pratt & Whitney: Engineering Standard Work
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
As the engineering of state-of-the-art jet engines becomes more and more complex, Pratt & Whitney leaders face major competitive problems. Product development projects are not meeting the cost, quality, and lead-time targets. The leadership develops a design,... View Details
Keywords: Design; Engineering; Cost; Knowledge Management; Time Management; Product Launch; Standards; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Pratt & Whitney: Engineering Standard Work." Harvard Business School Case 604-084, February 2004. (Revised March 2006.)
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
turn-around artist who had saved many companies from financial distress, Guvenal started by learning as much as he could about Turkasset’s debtors. He and his team discovered many of them were small-business... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
For business executives trying to decide where exactly in the digital realm to invest their advertising dollars, new research indicates that paid search ads on review sites such as Yelp can be a good way to go—at least for small,... View Details
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
how many people can be in a factory manufacturing machinery. We’re having a hard time getting parts for the machines. "Technology re-emergence is really a redefinition strategy. It’s redefining the product View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
MBA 2023 Alumni Transition - Alumni
account. Baker Library, Career Resources, & Clubs Baker Library Resources Your remote access to Baker Library | Bloomberg Center resources ends on May 25 . As an alumnus, you may visit the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center in person at any... View Details
- Profile
Bobby Tuohy
team of twelve, Bobby split his time between field operations and headquarters, where he led the charge for acquiring necessary resources. “It was the service and leadership I wanted.” Deepening tech skills and leadership abilities View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
inside of the courtroom more than once), hip-hop is as much a lifestyle as a musical genre. Yet the company’s spare, functional Times Square offices don’t suggest any of these... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and LISH research scientist Michael Menietti; as well as George Washington University’s Zoe Szajnfarber and Jason Crusan. “Given... View Details
- 16 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports
network, network,” Laitsas said. “People in this business remember the grind, I remember the grind. As long as you do it in a respectful way people will be willing to take the View Details
- 14 May 2015
- Blog Post
Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students
For Rudina Seseri, coming to HBS as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence was a kind of homecoming. A 2005 graduate of HBS, Rudina has spent much of the last decade working as a venture capitalist - investing in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
ways: like a virtual Teaching Assistant who can help you consolidate and confirm your understanding of course concepts, and as a virtual Learner Success Assistant who can help you stay on track with completing the coursework in a View Details
- Web
Hawes Hall | About
facilitates the fusion of interactive technologies with teaching techniques grounded in the case method. Innovations such as wireless Internet access and built-in video, webcast, and broadcast capabilities are essential features of the... View Details
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Developing Instructor Style - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
expense. Instructors can draw on verbal and non-verbal signals, such as facial expression, gesture, posture, and movement, in order to convey two basic messages to students: "You are in good hands" and "Now, it's up to you." Instructors... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
growing. And some cyclical industries may even intentionally overbuild. All in all, "it's hard to say that there's an exact amount of production that's appropriate at any point in time at any given price," Emmons cautions. The Rush to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons