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The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement
Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
graduating or an experienced manager, the most critical global attribute is open-mindedness. There's a curse that Americans in particular face, in that they're born in the world's largest, richest, and most technologically developed...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 16 Jul 2012
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Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
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by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
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Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities | About
visitors. For example, sharing comments attributed to individual students or class guests is not allowed. As another example, photographs that include seating cards with student names should not be shared unless individual permission has...
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- 24 Jun 2002
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Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
significance, and a legacy. Juggling all four at once is a trick that requires constant practice. People who fit our conventional notions of success display a lot of positive features, said Stevenson. But take a closer look and a positive View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
denying responsibility for failures, and attributing the problem to others or to "the system." We would prefer to move on to something more pleasant. Rigorous analysis of failure requires that people, at least temporarily, put...
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 26 Nov 2001
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How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
are hiring a manager to help run this system, what are the attributes of the ideal candidate? A: We observed that the best managers in these TPS managed organizations, and the managers in organizations that seem to adopt the Rules-in-Use...
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- 11 Oct 2006
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How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
trends, and economic growth rates. But in business, it is also influenced strongly by the cost of retirees, which in turn is determined in large part by the outcomes of negotiations between management and labor. Harvard economists David Bloom and David Canning View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jan 2006
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When Benchmarks Don’t Work
and the quality of outputs are comparable among all participating entities. In our earlier Toyota/GM example, it was sensible to compare the two companies' stamping press changeover times because their outputs were the same; the difference in changeover times could...
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- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
Gallani, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School. How much those systems spur employees, however, may depend on how fair employees perceive them to be. “We have a tendency to attribute...
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- 01 Oct 2009
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Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect
- 03 May 2022
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Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 2024
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Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE...
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Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
strategic marketing for Memphis-based FedEx, attributes these failures not to the technology per se, but to a "lack of recognition of the degree to which [IT implementation] requires process change, cultural change, and brute-force...
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by David Stauffer
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
prosperity growth (Baldwin, 2003; Dollar/Kraay, 2002; Frankel/Romer, 1999; Sachs/ Warner 1995), or highlighted the role of trade as a means to tap into foreign knowledge and raise productivity (Coe/Helpman, 1995; Alcala/Ciccone, 2004). But others are more skeptical and...
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by Christian Ketels
- 15 Oct 2001
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What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
attributed his success to "diversity in counsel, unity in command." Two Approaches to Decision Making Advocacy Inquiry Concept of decision making a contest collaborative problem solving Purpose of discussion persuasion and...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 17 Oct 2018
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Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
nine out of 10 of his last games, for example, players of the same race got an extra minute of playing time. When a coach lost the same number, no bias was shown. Zhang attributes that phenomenon to the “slack” that coaches get when they...
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Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research
The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community...
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- 27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success
very active in boosting the idea. We couldn’t have picked a better time to launch.” After more than a year of studying production practices and cross-country travels to acquire state-of-the-art equipment, the Turners began producing syrup under the Crown Maple label in...
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Deborah Blagg
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
percent, from $831 million for fiscal 2020. The decrease was primarily attributable to a reduction in program activity as a result of COVID-19. Salaries & Benefits Compensation for faculty and administrative staff is the largest expense...
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