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  • 2003
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Developing a Management Systems Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group

By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
This article describes how Designworks/USA, a subsidiary of BMW Group, developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) by integrating the management of environmental, social, and traditional business issues. After several months of deploying the SMS throughout its... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Standards; Operations; Auto Industry
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Toffel, Michael W., Natalie Hill, and Kellie McElhaney. "Developing a Management Systems Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group." Corporate Environmental Strategy 10, no. 2 (2003).

    Do Managers Have a Role to Play in Sustaining the Institutions of Capitalism?

    In the latest paper for the Initiative on 21st Century Capitalism, Rebecca Henderson and Karthik Ramanna, professors at Harvard, look to business leaders to ask the important question: Do managers have a role to play in sustaining free and fair capitalism? The... View Details
    • 03 Oct 2020
    • News

    Managing Stakeholder Trust During Supply Chain Disruptions

    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World

    By: Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake and Douglas Fearing
    Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile money agents exchange cash for electronic value... View Details
    Keywords: Currency; Mobile Technology; Market Platforms; Developing Countries and Economies
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    Balasubramanian, Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing. "Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-109, June 2017. (Presented at INFORMS 2015 and POMS 2016. Finalist and first runner up, Production and Operations Management College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Award.)
    • June 2001
    • Teaching Note

    Coordinating + Managing Supply Chains: Course Overview Note TN

    By: Ananth Raman
    Describes the MBA elective course on supply chain management at HBS. Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains focuses on the managerial aspects of supply chains. Acquaints students with practical issues in a variety of supply chains and then identifies barriers to, and... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Framework; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Marketing; Supply Chain Management; Performance Improvement; Planning; Behavior; Integration
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    Raman, Ananth. "Coordinating + Managing Supply Chains: Course Overview Note TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 601-159, June 2001.
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

    By: Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker and Karen L. Murrell
    We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of queue management on patients' average wait time and length of stay (LOS). Using an Emergency Department's (ED) patient-level data from 2007 to 2010, we find that patients' average wait time and LOS are longer when... View Details
    Keywords: Pooling; Queue Management; Strategic Servers; Social Loafing; Empirical Operations; Health Care; Fairness; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    Song, Hummy, Anita L. Tucker, and Karen L. Murrell. "The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay." Working Paper. (October 2014.)
    • 04 Oct 2022
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    Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

    Fridge No More, Buyk, and JOKR have either gone bankrupt or suspended operations in the US in spite of $4 billion in venture capital investment last year. This brings to mind the failed investments in fast logistics that accompanied the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • November–December 2019
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    Pivoting Isn't Enough? Managing Strategic Reorientation in New Ventures

    By: Rory McDonald and Cheng Gao
    New ventures often experience deviations from their plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and their target customers. Yet research is largely silent on how managers explain such changes and justify their ventures in... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Reorientation; Technology Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Product Development Processes; Organizational Adaptation; Qualitative Methods (General); Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Communication Strategy
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    McDonald, Rory, and Cheng Gao. "Pivoting Isn't Enough? Managing Strategic Reorientation in New Ventures." Organization Science 30, no. 6 (November–December 2019): 1289–1318.
    • 25 Nov 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

    together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
    • 2020
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    Leading the Charge: A Podcase about Product Management at Opower

    By: Jeffrey Rayport and John J. Lafkas
    The Opower podcase materials contain audio from professor Jeffrey Rayport's interview with Ben Foster, the former vice president of product management at Opower, and more recently the co-founder of Prodify. In the podcase, Ben discusses how product management works in... View Details
    Keywords: Product; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Conflict Management; Software
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    Rayport, Jeffrey, and John J. Lafkas. "Leading the Charge: A Podcase about Product Management at Opower." Harvard Business Publishing Podcase, HBS No. 7223, 2020. Audio.
    • 13 Dec 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

    States, Zhang found that purchased companies added nearly 15 percent more minority managers and 4 percent more female managers to their ranks than unacquired companies during the same period. "When the old... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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    Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

    , Strategic Management Journal, 2019. With Do Yoon Kim. Shane Greenstein Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration Shane Greenstein is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration. He teaches in the Technology,... View Details
    • April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    Urbi and the City Licensee Managers

    By: John D. Macomber and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
    A leading low income housing builder in Mexico decides which prospective new local partner best extends its advantages in managing twin production lines of homes and clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches... View Details
    Keywords: Mortgages; Government and Politics; Housing; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Market Entry and Exit; Production; Supply Chain; Organizational Culture; Franchise Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Real Estate Industry; China; India; Mexico; United States
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    Macomber, John D., and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Urbi and the City Licensee Managers." Harvard Business School Case 209-144, April 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
    • 1999
    • Chapter

    Managing Inventory for Fashion Products

    By: A. Raman
    Keywords: Logistics; Fashion Industry
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    Raman, A. "Managing Inventory for Fashion Products." In Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management, edited by S. Tayur, R. Gaheshan, and M. Magazine. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
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    The Translucent Hand of Managed Ecosystems: Engaging Communities for Value Creation and Capture

    By: Elizabeth J. Altman, Frank Nagle and Michael Tushman
    Management research has increasingly explored the domains of ecosystems, platforms, and open/user/distributed innovation—governance structures focused on engaging with external communities. While these research areas include substantial empirical and theoretical work... View Details
    Keywords: Ecosystems; Platforms; Open And User Innovation Strategy; Capabilities; Governance; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Value Creation
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    Altman, Elizabeth J., Frank Nagle, and Michael Tushman. "The Translucent Hand of Managed Ecosystems: Engaging Communities for Value Creation and Capture." Academy of Management Annals 16, no. 1 (January 2022): 70–101.
    • 22 Nov 2021
    • News

    Manage Your Talent Pipeline Like a Supply Chain

    • May 1997
    • Teaching Note

    Managing Product Development: Matching Technology with Context, Instructor's Note

    By: Marco Iansiti
    This overview to Managing Product Development (MPD) both previews course material, cases, exercises, and lectures--and provides its conceptual and academic underpinnings. Additionally, this note links these materials to the activities students will be undertaking in... View Details
    Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Product Development; Knowledge Management; Performance; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Opportunities; Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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    Iansiti, Marco. "Managing Product Development: Matching Technology with Context, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-103, May 1997.
    • May 2011
    • Case

    Baria Planning Solutions, Inc.: Fixing the Sales Process

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright and William Schmidt
    Baria Planning Solutions (BPS) is a consulting firm that specializes in using spend analysis to help companies identify savings through reduced procurement costs and improved supplier performance. Management is concerned about the disappointing performance of the sales... View Details
    Keywords: Quantitative Analysis; Technology; Operations Management; Product Lines; Manufacturing; Capacity Planning; Production Planning; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Supply Chain Management; Salesforce Management; Planning; Consulting Industry; North and Central America
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    Wheelwright, Steven C., and William Schmidt. "Baria Planning Solutions, Inc.: Fixing the Sales Process." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-568, May 2011.
    • 1994
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    Managing Services When Service Is a Performance

    By: J. A. Deighton
    Keywords: Service Operations; Performance; Management; Service Industry
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    Deighton, J. A. "Managing Services When Service Is a Performance." In Service Quality: New Directions in Theory and Practice, edited by R. T. Trust and R. L. Oliver. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1994.
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    Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Cohen : Winner of the 2022 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Master's World Powerlifting Competition Championship (83kg). Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management Science from the Finance... View Details
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