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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
expertise with HBS alumni by leading a job counseling workshop, titled On Effective Job Search Strategies, to Boston-area graduates and at reunions. “Neil’s insights are time-tested, his advice is unique, and his words of wisdom are genuinely helpful,” says Christine... View Details
- October 1994
- Case
H.E. Butt Grocery Company: A Leader in ECR Implementation
By: James L. McKenney, Richard L. Nolan, Theodore H. Clark and David Croson
McKenney, James L., Richard L. Nolan, Theodore H. Clark, and David Croson. "H.E. Butt Grocery Company: A Leader in ECR Implementation." Harvard Business School Case 195-125, October 1994.
- August 1993 (Revised August 2002)
- Exercise
Work Methods Design Exercise
Teams of students receive identical product design specifications, a sample unit of the product, and a series of assignment questions that entail time and motion studies, which they must both understand and perform before class discussion. In class, teams explain how... View Details
"Work Methods Design Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 694-026, August 1993. (Revised August 2002.)
- March 1996 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
CIBA Vision: The Daily Disposable Lens Project (A)
By: Gary P. Pisano
Examines CIBA Vision's decision on whether to launch a major new R&D initiative to develop a low-cost, daily disposable contact lens, and how to organize such a project should it proceed. One group of executives favors setting up a small, autonomous project team... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Operations; Research and Development; Decision Making; Production; Strategy; Management; Organizational Design; Globalization; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Pisano, Gary P. "CIBA Vision: The Daily Disposable Lens Project (A)." Harvard Business School Case 696-100, March 1996. (Revised January 2002.)
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
as CEO and president of Palm Computing and a decade as a marketing and logistics executive at Apple and its spin-off Claris, Dubinsky cofounded Handspring. As the company’s CEO, she oversees development, production, and marketing of the Visor, a popular PDA that is... View Details
- October 2001 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
Le Petit Chef
By: Alan D. MacCormack, Sandra J. Sucher and Suraj Rangashayi
Brigitte Gagne, Le Petit Chef's director of microwave R&D, is deciding on the product development agenda for next year. She has to decide which of the available projects to fund, and evaluate the overall portfolio of projects currently under development. The recent... View Details
Keywords: Production; Product Development; Projects; Planning; Research and Development; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Resource Allocation
MacCormack, Alan D., Sandra J. Sucher, and Suraj Rangashayi. "Le Petit Chef." Harvard Business School Case 602-080, October 2001. (Revised September 2022.)
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
enacting its provisions, partly due to concerns over perceived risks to unsophisticated investors. Moreover, not all of the provisions will be enacted at once. For now, Callaghan and McGee are focusing on building iCrowd's technological, regulatory, and View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- News
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
- 19 Dec 2022
- News
The Rise Philosophy at Mahindra Group
- 04 Nov 2022
- News
How Bullying Manifests at Work - and How to Stop It
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An excerpt follows: “CEOs must ensure that the functions involved... View Details
- 30 Jul 2021
- News
What’s the Right Customer Experience for Your Brand?
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Rauner Honored
Kent Bowen (center), an expert in the field of technology and operations management and the School's first Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
STORY Some quantitative analyses are like police procedural television programs; they attempt to solve a business problem with quantitative analysis. Some operational problem crops up, and data are used to confirm the nature of the issue... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the NAVSEA Warfare Centers—a part of the naval research labs responsible for developing science and tech for national defense—as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
As birthday parties go, this one was special. The faculty canceled classes, and the administrative staff collectively stepped away from their desks to join in daylong festivities marking the School’s 100th birthday on April 8. A big-top-style tent erected over the Shad... View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
inability to do so for just as long. How can someone overcome that cultural inheritance? It starts with managing one’s time at work. Technology allows work to encroach relentlessly on employees’ personal lives. If a person fails to put... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 May 2020
- Working Paper Summaries