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  • 30 Oct 2014
  • Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Robert Leke...

continent. Given the lean team structure at Tana, every team member is encouraged to continuously stretch himself/herself into roles of greater responsibility and influence. This has afforded me the opportunity for great learning, as well... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 11 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 11

non-traditional approaches to create and distribute advertising using extremely low-cost approaches online. A framework for Lean Advertising is proposed that identifies the four ways in which companies can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Nov 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

data network, the easier it is for workers to lean on superiors and rely on them to make decisions. It's also easier for executives to micromanage and keep all the decisions in the corporate office. Trust is... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
  • 28 Oct 2024
  • Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

John Judis and Ruy Teixeira heralded a new age of US politics in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book predicted that the growing Latino population, coupled with a clear Democratic lead View Details
Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

improving inventory management for its network of small and large retailers. Set just after the announcement of the Adidas-Reebok transaction in 2005, with New Balance having recently initiated a companywide effort to improve operational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS

incoming student and do not feel as confident in your finance and accounting skills, I highly recommend taking CORe – and once you get to campus, don’t be afraid to lean on your section mates for support.... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

HBS FIELD - A Sneak Peek Into Retail

extensive customer interviews and prototyping. In addition, professors make themselves available to discuss industry trends. Students can also lean on the distinct skills of the other members of their six... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Should managers lead innovation or get out of the way? It's not an either/or decision. Executives of some great innovative companies—Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg—are active participants in creation, getting their hands... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

implementation of a lean operating system at an Indian software services firm. By studying the introduction and impact of lean management techniques in a nontraditional setting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

ship” career ladder Holmes pursued, Sandberg’s career path took on the shape of a “jungle gym” that she described in Lean In. “I could never have connected the dots from where I started to where I am today,”... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

David M. Upton Abstract This paper examines how a company sets out to build an operations-based advantage. In particular, we investigate the implementation of a lean operating system at an Indian software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew they had the makings of an insightful case study on collaboration and governance in the digital world.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE

that! What has your connection been to SEI? WAVE was launched off of the momentum and winnings from the Social Enterprise Track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2013. The lean start-up testing and... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

enhance the due diligence process for mergers and acquisitions, and to support continuous improvement activities such as lean management and benchmarking. In presenting their model, the authors define the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812111-PDF-ENG Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 812-110 Following the lean years of the Great Depression when bankruptcies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Career Risks and Professional Growth: Finding a Fulfilling Career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

promotional items—had nothing to do with finance. She told me that what I was describing was marketing. That conversation helped me realize it was time to chart a new course. At HBS, I leaned into marketing, taking courses and building a... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

world." Being able to overcome the dominant thinking at headquarters. "Leadership has to lean in favor of nondominant thinking," says George. "That requires a tremendous amount of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

between two competing investments, which differ in size, maturity, and rate of return. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207066 Lean at Wipro Technologies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2020
  • Blog Post

Going the Distance for Investment Excellence

trove,” said Cameron. “I was getting coursework in finance, macroeconomics, and policy, and, while there, I got a sense that I was leaning toward bonds. That’s what led to my first position View Details