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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
supply-chain management, turning to outsourcing for almost every component used on the assembly line and relying on just-in-time deliveries several times a day. "We went through the difficult process of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
support, and back-office processing to America. Strengthening the industrial base. Remember, too, that many high-value-added services are often closely connected to manufacturing and can be delivered only locally. Production engineering... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
implications.” It’s important to build up reserves of trust with customers and markets to call on in hard times, he added, and don’t try to start the process when times are already difficult. Dubinsky recalled her media ride on the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it's now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition," says Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, who... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
of the owner, who is asked by his father to take over the business. An example: You are working on the docks as a 28-year-old in Worcester, Massachusetts, and your father asks you to stop work for a moment so he can talk with you. He tells you that the View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value, students adopt different roles in a family View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- June 2012 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Home Nursing of North Carolina
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Ari Medoff's (HBS '11) goal was to control his own professional destiny by owning his own company. His search identified a suitable acquisition in Home Nursing of North Carolina, and he had negotiated a purchase price of $3.5 million, or 4.2x trailing EBITDA. Medoff... View Details
Keywords: Search Funds; Small Companies; Acquisitions; Negotiation; Medical Services; Negotiation Process; Valuation; Investment; Acquisition; Health Industry
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Home Nursing of North Carolina." Harvard Business School Case 212-120, June 2012. (Revised October 2018.)
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
Upbeat, collaborative, and engaged.” That’s how Professor Teresa Amabile describes a gathering of 85 scholars and 15 business leaders held on the HBS campus in early December. The two-day Centennial conference, “Creativity,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
5 Pieces of Advice for Applying to HBS
There’s no doubt that applying to business school can be a stressful undertaking. Researching MBA programs, taking the GMAT, writing essays, chasing after recommenders (often while also trying to balance a full time job) can be downright... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
Where the Money Will Be," an article published in the November 2001 Harvard Business Review. "In markets where product performance is outstripping customer need, the market leader is vulnerable," write Christensen and coauthors Michael... View Details
- February 2017
- Supplement
Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller: Video Supplement
By: Jan Rivkin and Dylan Minor
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Rivkin, Jan, and Dylan Minor. "Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 717-803, February 2017.
- 2006
- Article
The Long-Term Value of M&A Activity to Enhance Learning Organizations
Viewing the automobile industry as being made up of independent learning-organisations may reveal some tie-ups that can generate value not easily revealed by traditional financial metrics. The key question to be answered when considering M&A activity between automakers... View Details
Heller, Daniel A., Glenn Mercer, and Takahiro Fujimoto. "The Long-Term Value of M&A Activity to Enhance Learning Organizations." International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management 6, no. 2 (2006): 157 – 176.
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
Productivity will improve as the alternation of job assignments eliminates the 'indispensable' worker." Connie Luthy says, "I have practiced 'Just-In-Time' hiring ... in the pharmaceutical industry.... I have advised my client companies to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
1972), and David Wayne Brown ((Sanai Publishing)) The Change Maker: Preserving the Challenge of America by Al Checchi (MBA ’74) ((Open Road Integrated Media LLC)) Outsourcing Murder Maddi Davidson (MBA 1980) ((CreateSpace)) Marketing: A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
The problems facing business and society are increasingly complex. Developing solutions to global challenges requires a faculty adept at field work, cross-sector collaboration, complex data analysis, and intensive laboratory work, as well... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
government, the different agencies, and ultimately the suppliers,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Jonas Heese, one of the study’s authors. “What we document, at a very high level, is that while allegations can shake that... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand and operate in the View Details