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

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 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

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

01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA

a way to prosper in lean economic times, Scharfman says that “being a manufacturer in the United States means you’re constantly swinging back and forth between optimism and wanting to throw yourself off a cliff. It’s not for the faint of... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

08 May 2014
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The Sky's the Limit

did. While in college, Eaton studied electrical engineering, and a tuition reimbursement program from United Technologies Corporation enabled her to get dual master's degrees in operations management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; women's issues; avaition; Air Transportation; Transportation

17 Apr 2017
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Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE

transformation that is as radical as it is methodical, as essential to the company’s survival as Steve Jobs’s iPhone was to Apple’s.” In overseeing the company’s transition to a lean operation more akin to a tech innovator, Immelt has... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2005
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Job Interviews

these are usually project management skills and general business analytic skills, which any industry can use.” What you say in an interview is important, but how you say it also counts. To make a strong impression, Butler advises job... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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