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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

no upcoming events. More Seminars & Conferences Faculty Positions Harvard Business School seeks candidates in all fields for full time positions. Candidates with outstanding records in PhD or DBA programs are encouraged to apply. Learn... View Details
  • September 2023
  • Supplement

Accelerating with Caution: Forecasting and Managing birddogs’ Growth (B)

By: Mark Egan
As 2017 was drawing to a close, birddogs’ founder and CEO, Peter Baldwin, was working with his CFO Jack Sullivan to prepare for 2018. Their task at hand? To predict the demand for their product in the coming season, determine the appropriate investments in working... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Expansion; Production; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • January 2005
  • Case

Managing Failure: American Bankruptcy Law at a Crossroads

By: David A. Moss, Mary Oey and Jonathan Lackow
Introduces the core principles and challenges of bankruptcy law (both individual and corporate) against the backdrop of the early 1970s, when the U.S. bankruptcy system appeared to be failing. With personal bankruptcy filings at record levels and successful corporate... View Details
Keywords: Change; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Policy; Government Legislation; United States
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  • 06 Jan 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

organizations that don't already have them. But let's assume that such plans only deter the amateurs and criminals for fleeting periods of time and that in fact it becomes impossible to hide or otherwise keep information confidential.... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • 26 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

deathsannually, according to recent research. ©iStock.com/Africaimages But those programs can only work if companies aren't at the same time undermining them with stress-inducing management practices.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Cash. The most obvious commercial C of the 7 Cs is Cash. Whatever you can do to conserve cash is going to be critical, because that’s what’s going to determine whether your employees are going to be paid next week. To learn more, read 7 Leadership Principles for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

unhappy with customer service, or your prices went up, or a competitor offered a better deal. But if a company lets too many customers show themselves the door, then they’ll waste too much of their time recruiting new customers. “If 30... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services
  • 05 Dec 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

merchant's direct channel sales after she opens a retail store in the area. The study used a proprietary longitudinal data set from a multichannel retailer to understand what happens and to probe the implications for channel management... View Details
  • November 2016 (Revised April 2017)
  • Case

Basecamp: Pricing

By: Frank Cespedes and Robb Fitzsimmons
A data analyst at Basecamp is evaluating the results of pricing research and its potential implications for the venture’s latest version of its project management software product. View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Entrepreneurial Management; Data Analysis; Marketing; Customer Acquisition; Customer Retention; Value Proposition; Sales Management; Product Management; Market Research; Life Time Value; Testing; Entrepreneurship; Analytics and Data Science; Customers; Value; Sales; Product Marketing; United States
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  • 14 Aug 2006
  • HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

because of it." The story also illustrates the importance of matching management style with the task (or employee) at hand. "There are skills in the workplace that you only get through repetition, drill, habit, and discipline. A... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • September 2021
  • Article

Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time

By: Rebecca Henderson
Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges... View Details
Keywords: Architectural Innovation; Systemic Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 03 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

approach is more effective at keeping rogue affiliates out of a program. That's because the internal employee who selects and manages affiliates, and is paid a base salary, has different motivations than an outside company, whose View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing
  • 30 Nov 2017
  • News

Law, Management, and Strategy: Collapsing Boundaries and Managing the Interstices

  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services

By: Maria Ibanez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Work scheduling research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize similar tasks... View Details
Keywords: Discretion; Scheduling; Queue; Healthcare; Learning; Experience; Decentralization; Delegation; Behavioral Operations; Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Decisions; Time Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Industry
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  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

for natural gas, and to create derivative supply contracts that could help customers manage the risks of demand volatility and price swings more effectively than before. In this way, Skilling and his colleagues solved a major contracting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 02 Aug 2013
  • News

People must take responsibility for managing their careers

  • Web

Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

26 May 2019 | Financial Times Global Workers Are Ready for Retraining Developing Employees 07 May 2019 | Harvard Business Review The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker William R. Kerr 28 Mar 2019 | Sloan View Details
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

Battalion. While at HBS and SEAS (the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), Weston built his own video game, Regent, and honed his product management and entrepreneurial skillset. He is also Co-President of the HBS Show... View Details
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Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details