Production Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

managers to give serious consideration to the internalization of at least some advertising and marketing services," Silk says in this Q&A. Sarah Jane Gilbert: Can you explain the concept of vertical integration? Alvin Silk:... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

25 Feb 2010
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E-mail Is Making You Stupid

Keywords: Professor Leslie Perlow; Manufacturing

March 1974 (Revised June 1995)
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First National City Bank Operating Group (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Growth in demands on the bank's "back office" required a totally new approach to management. New stress on systems orientation, objectives, measurement, process design and control has resulted in lower costs, fewer people, and higher quality. Also resulted in fear,... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Outcome or Result; Banking Industry

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28 Jun 2011
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Beyond Case Writing

behavioral-change experiments in health, agriculture, and microfinance in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She brings that globetrotting experience to bear when teaching a second-year course called Managing Global Health. At a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

to our detriment. Americans and other Western health-care leaders are often unaware of the many advances in health-care management and delivery that are being made "under the radar" in diverse parts of the world. To further disseminate... View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Tools & Services | Information Technology

applications and technology products to bring teaching and learning experiences to life. Learning Management Learn more about the HBS Learning Management System services.... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning

uncovered these obstacles using a process they refined more than a decade ago called Organizational Fitness Profiling (OFP). OFP helps CEOs or business unit general managers and their top teams assess how well an operation fits their... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

three key decisions made during store liquidations, including product markdowns, store closings, and inventory transfers. Their findings, based on work with retail outlets undergoing liquidation, at times run counter to generally accepted... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

15 Jun 2016
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These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

align? For example, when the VC hedges its bet by investing in multiple startups that may be competitors? A startup whose VC also invests in competitors may produce fewer new products for market, according to recent research. Source:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

serves companies that are trying to attract and retain high-potential diverse talent. The challenge for women, Skeete Tatum says, is not one of motivation, capability, or track record, but rather of not knowing where or how to start the process or how to View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

product categories, or stores. Some are even changing long-held attitudes toward consumption. To many folks, filling the home with more stuff or keeping up with the Joneses is no longer appealing. As a result, the degree of uncertainty in... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

15 Apr 2014
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Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing

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Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

01 Dec 1997
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A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

market; and a set of financings reasonable for all parties. Fifth, and most important, is a tremendous sense of urgency. We want to back ventures that are the first or second entrants in their markets, so speeding the product to market in... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New Releases

Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what is... View Details

31 Mar 2002
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Is This the Decade of the Investor?

analysis is substantially valid, it raises some interesting questions about productivity, growth, and investment in the information economy. The first, of course, is whether unusually high rates of productivity increases can be sustained... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

investor, cases in the course frame many of the critical opportunities and challenges associated with activating exponential growth and managing through the extrapolation phase as a venture scales. Scaling situations are presented through... View Details

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Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog

managed the early phase of new product development. Course deliverables will include: Weekly Assignments and Progress Reports – Most sessions will have short assignments that require students to apply... View Details

November 1997 (Revised May 1998)
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ASIMCO: The Alliance Brewing Group

ASIMCO is a direct investment fund with $350 million invested in 17 Chinese joint ventures in the brewing and auto components industries. The CEO must decide whether to invest in distribution to grow the brewing business or to invest in additional manufacturing joint... View Details

Keywords: Production; Distribution; Joint Ventures; Decision Making; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China