Lean Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Mar 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)

Weinstein: Standing tall and seeing all of the strategic possibilities in a highly competitive industry. I grew up in New York City and worked in every store along our 10-block radius. I learned how to sell and negotiate at a young age. There’s a scrappiness and... View Details

Keywords: Edited by Julia Hanna; Photo by Chris Sorensen; search firm; entrepreneurship; hedge funds

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

that data feed? An email management system? A forecasting model? A supply-chain management system? “One of the great things AI can do is help you better manage your business at... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

core symptoms of ASD, with some non-verbal children speaking, according to their parents, the first sentences of their lives. After unsuccessfully trying to negotiate use of the drug from Bayer, he continued to pull at the thread. He View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

me more about this case that you’re making for leaning into ambiguity and imperfection. Why is that a good solution for this moment in time? Charles Conn: Yeah, when most of us learn strategy, and many of us learned it from Michael... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

can we ensure that HBS’s MBA Program offers the best management education possible for future leaders in business and society?” In an ongoing effort to address these questions, the School launched the Required Curriculum (RC) Renewal... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

decisions of living which has meant the most to me.” By the 1950s, the pulps had given way to the new market in paperbacks. Accordingly, MacDonald began writing for this longer and more lucrative form. He turned his HBS management studies... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

Well, I have known you for many, many years. We met in college, actually in New Delhi. And then of course we lost touch for many, many years until you showed up in my class, in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School,... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Books

grading standards? Associate Professor Francesca Gino and colleagues investigate the phenomenon of the "fundamental attribution error." The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking Senator John Heinz Professor of View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003

First Film: Open Invitation, half–hour dark comedy Previous Job: managed brand franchises for Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati and Toronto AT P&G: spearheaded relationship with UNICEF to donate tuberculosis vaccines Copresident: HBS... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 1999
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New Releases

sectors. A new book by HBS professor Janice H. Hammond and coauthors Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop (both of Harvard University), and David Weil (of Boston University) examines this transformation. A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Putting on the Wheels

the political and economic turmoil following the fall of the Berlin Wall, he urged GM's senior management to locate a new plant for the company's Opel line in the East German town of Eisenach. Eisenach seemed a long shot at best. Even... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking

result in higher consumer costs and less agility. Alpha Architect’s focus on staying lean and minimizing distribution allows it to serve an account at almost any level, no longer needing to manage $1 million... View Details

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