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- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
customers is just the starting point. From here, firms have to make a creative leap to discover the unique combination of products and services that may address those needs. No customer gave Steve Jobs and Apple the design for the iPhone...
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- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
2009 and 2012, before taking a job as Vice President of Product at Bright.com (which was later acquired by LinkedIn). Changing tech’s culture will be necessary if the industry is to take full advantage of women’s talents, but that means...
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Amy Crawford
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Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
jobs with competitors. They can often even prevent them from working in the same industry, especially when employers are intentionally vague in defining the competition in non-compete agreements. As Professor Matt Marx of Cornell...
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- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
skipping class. If you decide to skip work—please call in and let us know, so we can make sure your job is covered.'" Trained labor, it turns out, is a very valuable asset even in a land of 1.3 billion-plus people. "Chu's...
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- March 2022
- Case
Unilever: Remote Work in Manufacturing
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Susie L. Ma
In December 2021, Unilever—one of the world’s largest producers of consumer goods—was in the midst of a pilot project to digitize its manufacturing facilities and enable remote work for factory employees. This was possible because of an earlier project to retrofit a...
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Change;
Globalization;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Human Resources;
Jobs and Positions;
Operations;
Education;
Training;
Manufacturing Industry
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Susie L. Ma. "Unilever: Remote Work in Manufacturing." Harvard Business School Case 622-030, March 2022.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity
The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm boundaries from economics and management. Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may...
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Complementarity
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-036, October 2018.
Chasing Stars
It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Julia J. Lee, Bradley R. Staats, Jochen I. Menges, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Across the globe, people commute an average of 38 minutes each way. Several large-scale surveys indicate that lengthy commutes decrease View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
foster the proactive team coaching behavior that we observed in many of the successful adopters. "The kind of teamwork members of the cardiac surgery community understand well is one in which every member's job is important to the...
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by Hilah Geer
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Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities - Recruiting
Giving candidates an opportunity to answer a question like this as part of a job application creates space for applicants to discuss various forms of diversity and how their lived experience will benefit the organization. Hamilton also...
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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online
Certificate Courses (6) Disruptive Strategy Professors Rory McDonald & Clayton Christensen Strengthen your capacity to create winning strategies and bring innovations to market by discovering customer jobs to be done and aligning your...
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- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
companies’ finances and worker treatment gives job seekers a new card to play. “That’s going to inform employee decisions when the labor market is tight,” he says. “The data is becoming more and more available. It’s easy to find, and it...
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by Lane Lambert
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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Highlights The Problem with Retail Work Breaking the Cycle The Good Jobs Strategy Show Hide Details Concepts Talent Linking Productivity and Customer Delight Competing on Flexibility Compensation Policy Featured Exercises Create an...
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Polaroid Timeline - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS Resources Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for full access.) HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS Working...
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- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
terms of product categories and demographics. We just don't live our lives in product categories or in demographics. When companies segment markets this way they often fail to connect with their customers. How do we live our lives? During the course of the day,...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
trail again, relax. Follow it trustingly with the right side of your brain, not the smart side.” A Man of the Cloth It was 1965 and Ted Hartley had just been fired from his job as EVP at First Western Financial when he bumped into the...
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Julia Hanna
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
a job as a Business Intelligence Analyst at Ministry of Justice New Zealand. I'm leading a few modelling and reporting projects across the Ministry using the knowledge I gained from the course. Hi n Nguy n Th Business Intelligence Analyst...
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- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
companies were less and less present in MBA recruiting, and he believed that companies' ability to train employees within the context of their jobs was quelling their desire for MBAs with less company-specific general management training....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
Our work can literally make us sick. Long hours, impossible demands from bosses, and uncertain job security can take their toll on our mental and physical well-being, leading to stress-induced aches and pains and anxiety. In extreme...
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