Leaning In - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

workplace. "Liberalizing Egalitarians" were those countries where respondents' attitudes toward gender were already egalitarian in 2002 and became even more so over the following decade (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

but at this stage, if you don’t have the confidence and the right people to do things without you, it will be a rough ride. In fact, when founding CEOs don’t learn to step up into their roles and empower their leaders, investors and board... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

sacrificing organizational agility, the company would institute more formal systems and controls. IT was, of course, key to achieving this. An expression Williams and Barton had begun to use in conversation to describe where they were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

inexperience in how to apply the methodologies. Another possibility? Their ideas just weren’t that good. “I think one of the coolest findings in our paper is that experimentation doesn’t necessarily drive... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

lean startup practices needed to be successful in entrepreneurial projects. "In government we announce something and wait to get it perfect. By using more experimental approaches, some public leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

responsibility efforts, including investing in solar energy and environmentally friendly farming with his sights set on reducing the company's carbon footprint. "The more we leaned into development... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

entrepreneur and Stanford/UC Berkeley lecturer Steve Blank. The "lean" in lean startup has its roots in the Toyota Production System; hence, the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Recently, I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast where Dr. Andrew Huberman interviewed Dr. David Buss, a founding member in the field of evolutionary psychology and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

the push toward lean manufacturing. Beer cites a manufacturing company whose CEO was committed to improving quality and launched a lean training program in multiple plants. The... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

which ones would fall flat. But, in rating recommendations they were told came from a computer versus a human, participants gave human recommenders higher scores, showing that people would rather receive suggestions from a person, even if... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

Toyota? With all the books and articles on Toyota, lean manufacturing, just-in-time, kanban systems, quality systems, etc. that came out in the 1980s and 90s, hasn't the topic been exhausted? Steven Spear:... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

Back in the early 1990s, managers of U.S. companies were justifiably proud of the well-oiled machines they'd made of their supply chains. Over the previous fifteen to twenty years, they'd wrung costs from the mechanisms and processes by... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

When Rory M. McDonald was working on his PhD at Stanford University in 2007, it was the heyday of the lean startup in Silicon Valley. “It seemed like pretty much every week... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

11 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 11

non-traditional approaches to create and distribute advertising using extremely low-cost approaches online. A framework for Lean Advertising is proposed that identifies the four ways in which companies can... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, signed into law last July, is the government's response to a series of financial reporting scandals that rocked investors. Among other measures the law offers up stiff criminal penalties for accounting fraud. But View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

according to Coresight Research. What accounts for their continued success when so many other major retailers have gone bankrupt since March 2020? Shih: If you look at their model, it’s always been lean staffing, relatively small... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

data network, the easier it is for workers to lean on superiors and rely on them to make decisions. It's also easier for executives to micromanage and keep all the decisions in the corporate office. Trust is... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

improving inventory management for its network of small and large retailers. Set just after the announcement of the Adidas-Reebok transaction in 2005, with New Balance having recently initiated a companywide effort to improve operational... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

per-project basis keeps overheads lean so that Eden McCallum's fees are a fraction of the big firms' rates. Their flexible, low-cost model has attracted top-notch corporate clients, resulting in steady... View Details