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  • August 2018 (Revised July 2019)
  • Background Note

Conducting a Kaizen

By: Willy Shih
Kaizen, meaning change for the better in Japanese, is a set of activities directed at improving standardized work, equipment, and procedures for carrying out daily production or other business operations. It was popularized by Toyota as an integral part of its Toyota... View Details
Keywords: Best Practices; Continuous Improvement; Kaizen; Process Improvement; 5S; Muda; Toyota Production System; Production; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; North and Central America; Asia; Japan
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  • August 1994
  • Case

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Energy Industry
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  • August 1994 (Revised May 1999)
  • Teaching Note

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program TN

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Programs; Energy Industry
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  • Summer 2021
  • Article

The Origin and Development of Firm Management

By: Michela Giorcelli
This paper examines the historical origin and diffusion of management practices. Despite their centrality in the modern world, the concepts of ‘management’ developed fairly recently. Only with the Industrial Revolution, due to the increased firm size, owners needed a... View Details
Keywords: Productivity; Kaizen; Management; Management Practices and Processes; History; Performance Productivity; Technology
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  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry

Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA 2008) when he cofounded View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • Profile

Michael O. Braimah

marketability." After Amal Sale, Michael reached out to an HBS contact he met a few years earlier at the Africa Business Conference, joining him at his private-equity firm, Kaizen Venture Partners. There, Michael was part of a small... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

easy. This norm is kaizen, and it basically states that whatever you do today is “not good enough.” It is one of the reasons Toyota, Honda, and Sony piled up such quick successes as Japan was still lifting itself out of the rubble of World War II. My twin brother and I... View Details
Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

to power the world sustainably. Second, we were impressed by Vestas’ commitment to quality and efficiency. After our first year course in operations management, we were excited to see process design principles in action. Weekly Kaizen and... View Details
  • Web

IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details