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- January 2025
- Teaching Plan
Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM
By: Willy Shih
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 625-003. New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production... View Details
Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
disciplines most often found in business schools. We have proposed that innovation in organizations be conceived of as a process of co-design: creative abrasion, creative agility, and integrated problem solving. We know much about the... View Details
- July 2024 (Revised October 2024)
- Case
Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM
By: Willy Shih
New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers used at the... View Details
Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
Shih, Willy. "Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM." Harvard Business School Case 625-003, July 2024. (Revised October 2024.)
- 2025
- Working Paper
Generative AI and the Nature of Work
By: Manuel Hoffmann, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng and Kevin Xu
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate a considerable potential
to complement human capital intensive activities. While an emerging literature documents wide-ranging
productivity effects of AI, relatively little attention has been paid... View Details
Keywords: Generative Ai; Digital Work; Open Source Software; Knowledge Economy; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Labor
Hoffmann, Manuel, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng, and Kevin Xu. "Generative AI and the Nature of Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-021, October 2024. (Revised April 2025.)
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
they named WHAM, short for “Work from Home Algorithmic Measure.” Three people labeled 10,000 chunks of text to help WHAM analyze whether job posting text included language indicating the role would involve remote work. They then “trained” WHAM using text from job... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals
By: Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending expiration of fixed-term... View Details
Liu, Ping, and Yuhai Xuan. "The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals." Working Paper, April 2014.
- Web
Negotiating - Alumni
Careers Negotiating Careers Negotiating Preparation is key to a successful negotiation. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the process and to help you plan your approach. What You Need to Know... View Details
- Web
US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
the area of employment, as determined by the Department of Labor (DOL) Duration Initially for 3 years Status may be extended for up to 3 additional years for a total maximum of 6 year Extensions beyond 6 years may be possible in certain... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
Most people understand that negotiation is a matter of give-and-take: You have to be willing to make concessions to get concessions in return. But the process of making concessions is easier said than done. Consider how events unfolded in... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- Web
Climate Impact - Business & Environment
face of changing climate, increasing regulation, labor pressures, and customer demands, farms are under existential threat. Robots have the power to completely transform the farm's "Operating System" from human-driven to AI-and-robot... View Details
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Serguei Netessine. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Honorable Mention for the Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML) Outstanding Paper Award at the 2022 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
changes,” Turner notes. “The quality then is inferior, but some producers mix it in with their better grades to stretch yield. We decided not to do that.” Turner also links his brand’s flavor to a purification process inspired by his... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
pymetrics: International Expansion
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2018, pymetrics, a solution offering neuroscience-based recruiting tests, closed a $40 million funding round that valued the business at $160 million. Over 60 companies around the globe were using pymetrics tests in their recruiting process, including... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Psychodynamics; Psychology; Hiring Of Employees; Hiring; Strategic Evolution; Strategy And Execution; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Entrepreneur; Bias; Rapid Growth Stage; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Strategy; Business Startups; Employment; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "pymetrics: International Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 720-376, September 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- February 2015
- Case
BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver for Success
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
In July 2014, the Global Executive Committee (GEC) for BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, held a two-day offsite to discuss the state of talent within the firm. A year prior, in 2013, Chairman and CEO Laurence (Larry) Fink had asked Global Head of HR Jeff... View Details
Keywords: Women And Leadership; Diversity; General Management; Leadership; Change Management; Human Capital; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Financial Services Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly. "BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver for Success." Harvard Business School Case 415-047, February 2015.
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
tools that are now being introduced will have a profound impact on the labor market, leading to the eventual elimination of many jobs and the restructuring of many others. The effect will be particularly acute among knowledge... View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
underrepresented communities. As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on, executives worked to continue these efforts, despite supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and erratic consumer spending. Beyond the moral imperatives of confronting... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
according to the working paper Do Management System Standards Indicate Superior Performance? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard. To earn the voluntary certification, workplaces need to demonstrate that their View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- June 2012
- Article
The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control
Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second largest mobile phone factory in the world, located in China, I theorize and test the implications of transparent organizational design on workers' productivity and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Organizational Learning; Operational Control; Organizational Performance; Chinese Manufacturing; Field Experiment; Rights; Interpersonal Communication; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Performance Productivity; Boundaries; Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Labor and Management Relations; Power and Influence; Manufacturing Industry; China
Bernstein, Ethan S. "The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control." Administrative Science Quarterly 57, no. 2 (June 2012): 181–216.