Manufacturing Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

about how to do “engineering” projects, about my ability to work with others to get things done, and about what it felt like to make good money and to be in an position to support myself. I performed well that summer and got a return... View Details

July–August 2016
Article

Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams

By: Ethan Bernstein, John Bunch, Niko Canner and Michael Lee

Holacracy and other forms of self-organization have been getting a lot of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. We argue, using evidence... View Details

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01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

of bank teller to become chairman of Zions Bancorporation in Salt Lake City, with teaching him that ethical standards are an intrinsic part of doing business. "He measures his performance in terms of doing the right thing and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

unprecedented to have a large cohort of people all over the world start working remotely at the same moment. The only parallel I can think of is from World War II, when waves of women entered heavy manufacturing for the first time. This... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Industry Information - Alumni

national discussion about how technology and innovation are transforming the way government agencies serve citizens and perform vital functions." + – Health Care FierceHealthcare Provides the latest industry news and analysis on the... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

was to help Taiwan build a presence in the semiconductor business. Taiwan’s government had set up an economic planning group led by Morris Chang, formerly of Texas Instruments, who conceived of and started what is now Taiwan Semiconductor View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

how today's organizations run. By demonstrating the interconnectivity among the three key pillars of management, students see how decisions impact strategic choices, organizational alignment, and leadership approaches, ultimately leading to the overall View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

publicly announced their intention to sell their 76.7% stake in Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., an iconic Italian producer of sport performance motorcycles. The decision followed a six-year turnaround during which Ducati returned to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Some of these barriers are related to inefficiencies in the domestic business environment, for example those captured in the World Bank's Logistical Performance Index (Arvis et al., 2010). Others are related to market access abroad, for... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

acquisitions to build up scale because, for the leading global competitors, an R&D-to-sales ratio of at least 8 percent represented a significant source of scale economies. But he also implemented a production strategy that was intended to arbitrage cost... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

estimating the impact of changes in supplier performance on customer demand. Using data from Hugo Boss, a manufacturer of branded apparel, we find increases in supplier reliability to be associated with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2013
Working Paper

Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850

By: G. Jones

This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award for Excellence in Teaching. Jan W. Rivkin : Received the 2009 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum from the HBS Class of 2009. Raffaella Sadun : Named a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic View Details

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

into Bartow (Florida) High School Hall of Fame in 2003. Lynn S. Paine : Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance (McGraw-Hill, 2004) was selected as a Library Journal Best... View Details

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

they were interviewed in-depth about how they went about their work and, specifically, what they did to be more productive. Using these insights, the Bell Labs team designed an innovative hands-on training program, which the star View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

begin with consumer electronics. That industry began with radio. Two enterprises commercialized, that is, brought the technology into public use: Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading U.S. electrical and telecommunication View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

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