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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
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
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching
In this blog, Loujaine AlMoallim (MBA 2024) interviews Technology and Operations Management Professor Elisabeth Paulson about her personal journey, her time at Harvard Business School, and her advice for HBS... 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.)
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
what is clear is that the organization will have to be one that both consumers need and doctors trust, says John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health Policy and View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Poets & Quants' Top-Ranked Startup: Wildfire
- Jul 29 2015
- Testimonial
Developing a Service Firm's Greatest Asset
- Jun 12 2014
- Testimonial
A Place Employees Are Proud to Call Home
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
forward to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead as the company managed the integration of RSC's operations with URI and the integration of three new board members from the acquired company. She... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
of sorts. They have allowed entrepreneurs to build empires out of fiber and thin air and to establish these empires in a realm without rules. They have challenged governments and their traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
summit of every challenge they took on, a small market share was not in their plans, and they continued to push hard. In 2006, outdoor giant Timberland came knocking on their door, offering to buy and support the brand while letting Coupounas and her husband keep and... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation
By: John D. Macomber
This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School. It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week. SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
Blockchain Is Changing How Companies Can Engage with Customers
Keywords: Blockchain
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
by Ralph Ranalli Talking about his ambitious plans to create a safer, cleaner type of nuclear power plant, Russell Wilcox says, quite matter-of-factly, that he was "looking for a project that would have an impact on the world." There aren't many people who can make... 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.)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
(subtitled How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership) includes new material intended to guide fledgling managers through specific operational issues, such as dealing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
approached as a series of experiments. You don't know what tasks are needed to complete the product, but you can still plan which sequence of trials to run. Developing products in a turbulent setting requires a process that does not avoid uncertainty but instead allows... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 04 Jan 2021
- News
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
- November 2002 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
MedSource Technologies
Considers the issues facing Richard Effress, MedSource's chairman and CEO, as the firm approaches the Precision Cut project--the first test of MedSource's capabilities as an integrated, contract manufacturer in the medical device industry. MedSource Technologies was... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Production; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Design; Supply Chain Management; Management Teams; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
Huckman, Robert S. "MedSource Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 603-081, November 2002. (Revised August 2003.)